I think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’
FLORENCE PUGHAnd I’m a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.
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I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.
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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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I think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.
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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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That’s something I’ve always appreciated watching actors that I’ve looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.
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