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Feisty women are my calling!
I used to reenact 'Titanic' all the time.
Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
We tend to kind of write women out of history.
What's important is to listen before you react.
Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.
The fact that I've been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.
Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
I'm a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film.
When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.
I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.
I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn't we just make something new?
Why aren't there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I'm up for it.
Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue - but so happy.
If people are noticing the hard work I'm doing, then that's a wonderful thing.
I wrestled at the Staples Centre at 'Monday Night Raw' when I was 21 years old.
I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.
I think it's good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.
I like a role where some of the character's motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
It's always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn't make sense.
Throughout my life, I've been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
I can't remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn't eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
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 think I'm going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I'm not going to be an international sex symbol.
'Lady Macbeth' is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of 'The Falling' was not necessarily a fluke.
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.
We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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 hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.