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.
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.
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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.’
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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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Feisty women are my calling!
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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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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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I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.
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I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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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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I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
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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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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.
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There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
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I 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.
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There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
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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 one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.
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