Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
FLORENCE PUGHWhen 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 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 have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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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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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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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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I love Le Carre’s writing.
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We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.
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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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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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I really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it’s so hard – you’re competing against your friends, and you’re working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they’re thinking.
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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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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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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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As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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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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