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.
FLORENCE PUGHI found out I got ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn’t expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It’s been an overwhelming experience.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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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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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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I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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I’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.
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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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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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For me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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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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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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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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