Florence Pugh Says It is ‘Exhausting’ Being a Girl in Hollywood, ‘Positive Line’ to ‘Getting Torn Aside’

In a latest interview with The Sunday Instances, the We Stay in Time actress stated it is “exhausting” being a girl within the leisure business.

Whereas referring to the latest headlines made by fellow Brit, Keira Knightley, who stated she was publicly shamed by the press after starring in Pirates of the Caribbean at simply 17 years previous, Pugh touched on the road girls should tow to outlive Hollywood’s wrath.

“There are high quality strains girls have to remain inside, in any other case they’re referred to as a diva, demanding, problematic. And I do not wish to match into stereotypes made by others,” the 28-year-old Oscar nominee informed the publication. “It’s actually exhausting for a younger girl to simply be on this business, and really different industries.”

She continued, “I bear in mind watching this business and feeling that I wasn’t represented. I bear in mind godawful headlines about how Keira Knightley is not skinny anymore, or watching girls getting torn aside regardless of being gifted and exquisite. The one factor individuals wish to discuss is a few ineffective crap about how they give the impression of being. And so I did not care to abide by these guidelines.”

This can be a subject Pugh has touched on earlier than, with the Midsommar star telling The Telegraph in 2022 that she thought changing into an actor was a “large mistake” after she was physique shamed by studio executives at age 19.

Pugh recalled coming off her characteristic movie debut within the 2014 psychological drama The Falling, when she landed a lead position within the Fox sitcom Studio Metropolis. It did not take lengthy earlier than she stated the studio executives who employed her for the present started to physique disgrace her, and allegedly requested Pugh change issues about her bodily look.

“All of the issues that they have been making an attempt to vary 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,” Pugh stated. “I might thought the movie enterprise could be like [my experience of making] The Falling, however really, this was what the highest of the sport regarded like, and I felt I might made a large mistake.”

Studio Metropolis was by no means picked up, and Pugh was ultimately solid in Woman Macbeth, which gained rave critiques for her efficiency.

“That made me fall again in love with cinema — the type of cinema that was an area the place you possibly can be opinionated, and loud, and I’ve caught by that,” she defined. “I feel it is too straightforward for individuals 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.”

The Little Girl star continued, “There’s nothing glamorous about it, and I feel that is what I like. After I get to be utterly uncooked, that is once I really feel like I can actually be watched. After I may very well be bare at no matter measurement I used to be, and bare-faced, and the appearing may converse for itself. There’s nothing for individuals to be distracted by: they can not be like, ‘Oh, I do not just like the make-up.'”

“It was a beautiful reminder: ‘Oh, yeah — that is who you’re,'” Pugh concluded.