Florence Pugh Remembers Pushing to Fit a Hollywood Image

Florence Pugh is one of the most famous faces in Hollywood – her play Frowning brought a lively character to MidsmarDanny and little WomenEspecially Amy. But as a female actress in the spotlight, Pugh still faced pressure to alter her appearance to fit a frivolous beauty standard.

In a new interview with telegraphPugh said she had an unforgettable negative experience early in her career, working on a pilot for a Fox series that never aired. Studio City. After enjoying working with Maisie Williams on the British series dropPugh said her expectations were nowhere near realised.

“I thought the film industry would be like that [my experience with] dropAnd the But in reality, that was what the top of the game looked like, and I felt like I made a huge mistake,” Pugh shares.

She continues, “All the things they were trying to change about me—whether it was my weight, my shape, the shape of my face, the shape of my eyebrows—wasn’t what I wanted to do, or the industry I wanted to work in.”

When the pilot for Studio City Not picked up, Pugh returned home to London, but sure her acting career was interested. But only two weeks later, Pugh was chosen as the leader in 2016 Lady Macbeth, a role that would lead to her big break. The film “made me fall in love with cinema again, the kind of cinema that was a place where you could give your opinion out loud,” Pugh says.

“I stuck with that,” Pugh continues. “I think it is very easy for people in this industry to push you left and right. And I was lucky enough to discover when I was 19 what kind of artist I wanted to be.”