Florence Pugh Physique Shamed by Studio Execs at Age 19: Change Your Face

Florence Pugh revealed in a latest interview with The Telegraph that she thought she changing into an actor was a “large mistake” after she was physique shammed by studio executives at age 19. The Oscar nominee was coming off her function movie debut within the 2014 psychological drama “The Falling” when she landed a lead function within the Fox sitcom “Studio Metropolis.” Pugh, 19 years outdated on the time, was set to star as a pop star on the rise reverse Eric McCormack as her songwriting father who moonlights as a celeb drug vendor.

“I felt very fortunate and grateful, and couldn’t imagine that I had acquired this top-of-the-game job,” Pugh stated about touchdown the “Studio Metropolis” function.

Pugh added that the studio executives who employed her for “Studio Metropolis” started to physique disgrace her as quickly as she acquired chosen for the function. The execs allegedly requested Pugh change issues about her bodily look.

“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 wished to do, or the trade I wished to work in,” Pugh stated. “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 regarded like, and I felt I’d made an enormous mistake.”

Fox in the end handed on “Studio Metropolis,” so Pugh went again residence to England. The actor stated she auditioned for her breakthrough function within the function movie “Woman Macbeth” simply “two weeks later.”

“That made me fall again in love with cinema – the sort of cinema that was an area the place you possibly can be opinionated, and loud, and I’ve caught by that,” Pugh stated. “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 wished to be.”

Pugh lately led Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Fear Darling,” which can be out there to stream on HBO Max beginning Nov. 7. Her starring function in Sebastian Lelio’s new drama “The Surprise” debuts Nov. 16 on Netflix. Further upcoming initiatives for Pugh embrace “Dune: Half Two,” the place she’s going to star reverse Timothee Chalamet as Princess Irulan.