I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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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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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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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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As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.
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The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
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When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
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During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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I love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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In ‘Fighting With My Family,’ there’s a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee.
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There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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Feisty women are my calling!
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The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.
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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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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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The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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