The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.
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With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
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I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.
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Amazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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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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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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And 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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What I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.
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