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!’
FLORENCE PUGHI don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
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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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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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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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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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The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
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My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
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With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
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I 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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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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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 can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
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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 an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
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Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.
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We tend to kind of write women out of history.
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I’ve been told to be skinny before – it’s already happened, but it’s up to you to either listen or say no. I’m not listening.
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I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
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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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What we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.
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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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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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