Florence Pugh mentioned her first Hollywood position made her really feel like she’d “made an enormous mistake.”
In a latest interview with The Telegraph, the British actor, now 26, recalled being pressured to utterly change her look at age 19, after she left the U.Okay. for Los Angeles and landed a lead position in a pilot.
Pugh had been forged in “Studio Metropolis,” a dramedy a couple of pop star on the rise. The present was additionally to star Eric McCormack and Heather Graham. “I felt very fortunate and grateful, and couldn’t imagine that I had bought this top-of-the-game job,” Pugh advised The Telegraph.
However as soon as she bought the half, executives started telling her she wanted to make modifications.
“All of the issues that they had been attempting 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 trade I needed to work in,” Pugh mentioned.
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Two years earlier, she’d made her on-screen debut in “The Falling,” a British psychological drama during which she was forged from an open audition.
“I’d thought the movie enterprise could be like [my experience with] ‘The Falling,’ however really, this was what the highest of the sport seemed like, and I felt I’d made an enormous mistake,” Pugh mentioned of her time on “Studio Metropolis.”
The pilot wasn’t picked up for sequence, and Pugh mentioned she returned to England feeling like her profession was over. However two weeks later, she landed an audition for “Woman Macbeth,” which she ended up starring in.
“That made me fall again in love with cinema ― the type of cinema that was an area the place you can be opinionated, and loud, and I’ve caught by that,” she advised The Telegraph. “I believe it’s far too straightforward for individuals on this trade to push you left and proper. And I used to be fortunate sufficient to find after I was 19 what sort of a performer I needed to be.”
In 2018, Pugh additionally spoke about her expertise with “Studio Metropolis” and the strain placed on her to look a sure approach, telling The Guardian: “What I’ve observed about Hollywood is, should you go on the market shouting about who you might be, they’ll love you for it. However should you exit not understanding what it’s that you simply’re representing, and you might be only a canvas, they’ll make you into the factor they want you to be.”
Pugh has since landed roles in main Hollywood fare together with “Black Widow,” “Dune: Half Two” and “Don’t Fear Darling” ― and stays firmly dedicated to trying and dressing as she rattling properly pleases.