Florence Pugh: Execs told me to lose weight and change my ‘shape’ for a role

Florence Pugh could also be one of many hottest younger stars on the rise for the time being, however the climb to the highest of the Hollywood meals chain wasn’t a simple one.

The “Don’t Fear Darling” star, 26, not too long ago obtained candid with the Telegraph about how movie executives needed her to alter her look and shed pounds when she was first beginning out within the film biz.

Pugh was 19 years outdated when she made the journey throughout the pond from England to the US to audition for the sequence “Studio Metropolis.”

Nonetheless, producers on the present advised her that in an effort to succeed, she wanted to remodel her look.

“All of the issues that they have been attempting to alter about me — whether or not it was my weight, my look, the form of my face, the form of my eyebrows — that was so not what I needed to do, or the business I needed to work in,” she famous.

Pugh continued: “I’d thought the movie enterprise can be like [my experience of making] ‘The Falling,’ however truly, this was what the highest of the sport seemed like, and I felt I’d made a large mistake.”

DON'T WORRY DARLING, from left: Harry Styles, Florence Pugh, 2022. ph: Merrick Morton /© Warner Bros. /Courtesy Everett Collection
Harry Kinds (left) and Florence Pugh in Olivia Wilde’s 2022 drama “Don’t Fear Darling.”
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Whereas the TV sequence by no means made it to air, Pugh flew again to the UK to audition for — and finally star in — the drama “Woman Macbeth.”

The expertise earned her nice critiques and it made her grow to be a cinephile as soon as once more. The “Midsommar” actress added: “That made me fall again in love with cinema — the form of cinema that was an area the place you can be opinionated, and loud, and I’ve caught by that.

“I feel it’s far too straightforward for folks on this business to push you left and proper. And I used to be fortunate sufficient to find once I was 19 what sort of a performer I needed to be,” she stated.

Nonetheless, she confessed that the movie world isn't all that “glamorous,” however “that’s what I really like.”

“After I get to be fully uncooked, that’s once I really feel like I can actually be watched,” Pugh said.

Pugh has starred in hits such as "Midsomer," "Outlaw King" and "Black Widow."
Pugh has starred in hits reminiscent of “Midsommar,” “Outlaw King” and “Black Widow.”
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Pugh then defined how she feels probably the most snug on set “once I may very well be bare at no matter dimension I used to be, and bare-faced.”

She additionally hoped that her appearing can converse for itself. “There’s nothing for folks to be distracted by: They will’t be like, ‘Oh, I don’t just like the make-up.’ It was an exquisite reminder: ‘Oh, yeah — that is who you might be,’ ” she identified.

Pugh isn't shy about exhibiting off her physique when she goes out for an evening in town in latest months. She rocked a clear hot-pink robe for the Valentino high fashion style present this previous July.

She went sans brassiere as soon as once more throughout a Paris style week dinner earlier this month.

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