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.
FLORENCE PUGHMy dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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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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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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I 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!’
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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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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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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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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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 Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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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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I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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