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 Pugh
I love Le Carre's writing.
I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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.
I used to reenact 'Titanic' all the time.
Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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.
Feisty women are my calling!
What's important is to listen before you react.
I hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.
'The Falling' was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn't think anything would come of it.
Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
What I've noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you're representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.
I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.
I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it's the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it's done.
I wrestled at the Staples Centre at 'Monday Night Raw' when I was 21 years old.
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.
Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn't we just make something new?
I found out I got 'The Little Drummer Girl' and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn't expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It's been an overwhelming experience.
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.
I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I'm up for it.
There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, 'Oh my God, I'm being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?'
If people are noticing the hard work I'm doing, then that's a wonderful thing.
If 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. 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.
I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn't something that I grew up watching.
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. I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
For me, it's always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
When 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The fact that I've been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
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.
Throughout my life, I've been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
I love all of Kate Winslet's characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they've done, that would be awesome.
My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
Why aren't there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
'Lady Macbeth' is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of 'The Falling' was not necessarily a fluke.
I like a role where some of the character's motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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. You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that's not how Hollywood works.
My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
I think it's good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
