Florence Pugh
It's always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn't make sense.
Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
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.
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.
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.
'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film.
I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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.
We tend to kind of write women out of history.
Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
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.'
Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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.
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.
I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue - but so happy.
I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
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 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.
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 can't remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn't eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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!'
If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He's an amazing man. I loved working with him.
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 think it's good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.
Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
I like a role where some of the character's motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
'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.
'Lady Macbeth' is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of 'The Falling' was not necessarily a fluke.