If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
FLORENCE PUGHIf people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.
FLORENCE PUGHAs beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
FLORENCE PUGHI 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.
FLORENCE PUGHIf 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.
FLORENCE PUGHThe 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.
FLORENCE PUGHI’m a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
FLORENCE PUGHMy dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
FLORENCE PUGHEverybody’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.
FLORENCE PUGHAmazing, 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.
FLORENCE PUGHI can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
FLORENCE PUGHAnd 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.
FLORENCE PUGHI think you’re always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, ‘All right, at least I know that now!’
FLORENCE PUGHI have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
FLORENCE PUGHI suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
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