Florence Pugh is getting candid about setting boundaries by way of her work.
The 29-year-old starred within the 2019 horror movie, “Midsommar,” however revealed that the undertaking was so emotionally taxing that she doesn’t assume she might do one thing like that once more.
The function of Dani required Pugh to go to darkish locations, as her character finds herself trapped by a Swedish cult whereas touring with a bunch after enduring a tragedy in her life.
“How have you learned to look after yourself and your mental wellbeing [while working]?” Josh Smith requested the Oscar nominee throughout an episode of his “Reign” podcast.
“Gosh, that’s a good question — I’m still figuring it out,” Pugh replied. “I don’t think I’d be able to do this without going there all the way and putting myself in all of those characters that I’ve played. There’s always a piece of me.”
Sharing her perspective after enjoying any of her characters, the English actress defined, “There’s always a moment at the end of filming where I, like, protect and defend those characters until the very end, even if they’ve done god-awful things. I think that’s only natural when you’re in someone for so long.”
Pugh stated “protecting” herself is one thing she’s needed to “learn how to do” through the years.
“There have been some roles where I’ve given too much and I’ve been broken for a long while afterwards. Like when I did ‘Midsommar,’ I definitely felt like I abused myself in the places that I got myself to go.”
“I mean, the nature of figuring these things out is you need to go, ‘Alright, well, I can’t do that again cause that was too much,’” Pugh continued. “But then I look at that performance and I’m really proud of what I did, and I’m proud of what came out of me. I don’t regret it.”
“But, yeah,” she famous, “there’s definitely things that you have to respect about yourself….”
Pugh initially spoke about how draining her time on “Midsommar” was in 2023. The movie additionally starred Will Poulter, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper and Vilhelm Blomgren.
“I’d never played someone that was in that much pain before, and I’d put myself in really s–t situations that maybe other actors don’t need to do,” she stated on the “Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster” podcast on the time.
The “We Live in Time” star has additionally opened up about how exhausting it’s to be a girl in Hollywood basically.
“There are fine lines women have to stay within, otherwise they are called a diva, demanding, problematic. And I don’t want to fit into stereotypes made by others,” Pugh stated in an interview with the Instances of London in December. “It is really exhausting for a young woman to just be in this industry, and actually other industries.”
However she likes to problem the concepts she disagrees with, very similar to how girls within the public eye are anticipated to look.
“I remember watching this industry and feeling that I wasn’t represented. I remember godawful headlines about how Keira Knightley isn’t thin anymore, or watching women getting torn apart despite being talented and beautiful,” she recounted. “The only thing people want to talk about is some useless crap about how they look. And so I didn’t care to abide by those rules.”
