Florence Pugh

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q22277803: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Midsommar, which Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Fighting with My Family (2019); Little Women (2019); Midsommar (2019); Don't Worry Darling (2022); Oppenheimer (2023); Lady Macbeth.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Rocky (1976): 2 lines

  1. craft (craft) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they acted in: Rocky ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says you cannot make a sports movie without watching Rocky and all its sequels.
    “make any kind of sports a movie without watching Rocky or indeed all of the Rockies”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:45:46 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they acted in: Rocky ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant calls Rocky a template because it beds in character so you root for him before the fight, a lesson he applied.
    “a template in the sense that it really beds in character”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:46:00 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

42nd Street: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they acted in: 42nd Street ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says he saw the film as about becoming a star and entertainer, like old backstage musicals such as 42nd Street.
    “those old kind of um, musical, like 42nd Street, right?”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:27:31 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

8 Mile: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they acted in: 8 Mile ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant lists 8 Mile among films he thought about while making it.
    “The other things I thought about are 8 mile, the Eminem film.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:46:49 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

A Star Is Born (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they acted in: A Star Is Born ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side.
    “I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Batman (Tim Burton): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they acted in: Batman (Tim Burton) ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says his furious teenage reaction to Burton's Joker change taught him that a 90-minute movie must simplify its source, as he did with wrestling storylines.
    “the more that Tim Burton's decision to do that makes perfect sense to me as a 90 minute movie”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:35:54 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Billy Elliot: 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they acted in: Billy Elliot ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant wanted a film that works for non-fans, as Billy Elliot makes you root for a ballet dancer despite no interest in ballet.
    “I kept thinking about movies like Billy Elliott.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:33:50 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Dwayne Johnson: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they acted in: Dwayne Johnson ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says his friend Dwayne Johnson sent him the documentary that became the film.
    “my dear friend Dwayne The Rock Johnson sent me this documentary about a family of British wrestlers”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:22:34 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Saturday Night Fever (1977): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they acted in: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant treats the wrestling matches like the dance numbers in Saturday Night Fever, each with different moves building to a big finale.
    “the way that the wrestling sequences are almost little dance numbers.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:47:51 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

The Fighter (2010): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they acted in: The Fighter ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant borrowed The Fighter's low-budget trick of using HBO boxing cameramen so the wrestling would look like a real broadcast.
    “They used HBO boxing cameramen to shoot a lot of their fight scenes.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:41:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (13) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Florence Pugh → Little Women. Pugh's Supporting Actress nomination for Little Women thrills the speaker.
    “Nominated for best supporting actress for Little Women.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:16:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Florence Pugh → Lady Macbeth. Merchant says he had only seen Pugh in Lady Macbeth, a contained performance, and needed someone who could let loose.
    “I'd only really seen her in this film called Lady Macbeth, which is a much more contained controlled performance”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:38:30 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Florence Pugh → Candice Bergen. Griffin dubs Pugh the new Candice Bergen, who is the new LeBron James, because all three 'get buckets' and are great on Instagram.
    “Because Florence Pugh is the new Candace Bergen, who is the new LeBron James because she gets fucking buckets.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:12:40 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Florence Pugh → Jude Law. Pugh's arrival as a star is the Talented Mr. Ripley-era Jude Law analog; Lopez is Tom Cruise in Magnolia, a star channeling her legacy into her best acting.
    “then Lopez is Tom Cruise in Magnolia.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:24:41 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Florence Pugh → Kathleen Turner. Pugh's deep husky voice makes her 'the new Kathleen Turner'.
    “she's the new Kathleen Turner.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:21:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (performance): Midsommar → Florence Pugh. Florence Pugh is named for best leading performance.
    “I wrote down Florence Pugh and Midsommar.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:24:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Florence Pugh → Little Women. Griffin nominates Pugh for Best Supporting Actress and calls it the best comedic performance of 2019.
    “Best comedic performance of 2019, Little Women.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:12:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Florence Pugh: Recast idea: it would be a 'justice for Amy' casting that makes you root for Olive.
    “she also makes, like, that's a justice for Amy movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:24:10 · Shea Serrano (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Florence Pugh: Turns awkward junket questions into soliloquies about snails.
    “She can just turn a very awkward question into a 3 minutes soliloquy about snails”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:17:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Florence Pugh: A nervous Merchant was asked by Pugh to leave the room before the Staples Center scene.
    “can you just leave the room because you're making me nervous”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:42:02 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Florence Pugh: Her official nickname from here on is 'Florence Candice LeBron Bergen Pugh'.
    “So once again, her official nickname from here on out is Florence, Candace, LeBron Bergen Pugh.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:12:50 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)