Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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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I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
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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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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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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 want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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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Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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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 women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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For me, I really appreciate seeing real bodies on screen, that variation, not the same frames we saw for the majority of our upbringing, making us feel like we have to look that way.
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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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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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Feisty women are my calling!
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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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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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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 can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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I think there’s always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have,
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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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That’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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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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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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