I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
FLORENCE PUGHThat’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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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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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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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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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 was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
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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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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
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That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
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Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
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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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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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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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