Florence Pughis happy she didn’t listen to Hollywood naysayers.
TheDon’t Worry Darlingstar, 26, shared thatdespite pressure to change her appearance, she has never given in, during a conversation withThe Telegraphposted Saturday.
Pugh broke into the business at age 17, in 2014’sThe Falling, which she told the outlet was a “complete right-place-right-time fluke.”
“I felt very lucky and grateful, and couldn’t believe that I had got this top-of-the-game job,” she told the outlet. But it immediately took a turn when executives started asking her to make changes to her appearance.
“All the things that they were trying to change about me — whether it was my weight, my look, the shape of my face, the shape of my eyebrows — that was so not what I wanted to do, or the industry I wanted to work in,” Pugh said.
Florence Pugh inThe Wonder(2022).Aidan Monaghan/Netflix
TheLittle Womenstar said her previous role — which she was cast in with no training, just experience in school plays and a killer audition — had not prepared her for the industry.
“I’d thought the film business would be like [my experience of making]The Falling, but actually, this was what the top of the game looked like, and I felt I’d made a massive mistake,” she recalled.
The show wasn’t picked up, so Pugh went home to England, where she auditioned forLady Macbeth. The drama based on a novel ended up being a career vehicle for the young actress, who received rave reviews for her lead performance.
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“There’s nothing glamorous about it, and I think that’s what I love,” she confessed in the interview. “When I get to be completely raw, that’s when I feel like I can really be watched.”
The actress now stars as an English nurse trying to crack the case of why an 11-year-old girl hasn’t eaten in four months inThe Wonder, her upcomingNetflixperiod drama-thriller based on the 2016Emma Donoghue(Room) book of the same name.
Florence Pugh with Timothée Chalamet inLittle Woman.Wilson Webb/Columbia Pictures
Anofficial trailer forThe Wonder, released Tuesday, shows Pugh’s character Lib Wright arriving to help care for “a young Irish girl, Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), whose Catholic family claim she has eaten nothing since her eleventh birthday … four months ago.”
Pugh sharedthe photo on Instagramas well, saying in the caption that she and her fellow cast members and production crew had been “traipsing around the Irish hills for the last week and it’s truly been a magnificent start to a beautiful and exciting film.”
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“What a story to get our teeth stuck into, what a crew to be working alongside and a fantastic director Sebastian Lelio to be leading us!” she wrote, shouting out the film’s director. “This will be fun.”
source: people.com
