If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He's an amazing man. I loved working with him.
— Florence Pugh
Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.
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.
I'm a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
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.
I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue - but so happy.
There's a reason why there's a problem with bodies, and it's because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
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.
The women I'm attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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!'
I can't remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn't eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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, 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.
Something that I've always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves. That'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.
I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
I love watching faces as they grow up. It's the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women. I like a face that hasn't been tampered with.
Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed 'Lady Macbeth.'
There's always going to be pressure, and there's always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
We tend to kind of write women out of history.
If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim. Amazing, 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.
The whole wrestling art, it's a whole form, is performance, and that's what makes it so exciting to do.
In 'Fighting With My Family,' there's a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee. 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.
I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film.
Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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.
It's always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn't make sense.
I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.
