Florence Pugh says the Internet is “a very mean place.”
The We live in time the actress spoke candidly about how negative comments about her body or personality can sometimes get her down.
“It’s so hard,” Pugh, 28, said British Vogue for their October issue. “It’s really painful to read how people are angry about my confidence or my weight. It’s never a good feeling.”
She continued: “The one thing I’ve always wanted to achieve is to never sell someone else something that I’m not the real me.”
As she said Ella In the UK last year, “I talk the way I talk about my body because I’m not trying to hide the cellulite on my thigh or the crumb between my arm and my nipples.”
Florence Pugh on the cover of British Vogue, October 2024.
Venetia Scott/Vogue magazine. See the full article in the October issue of British Vogue, on newsstands from Tuesday 24 September.
IN British Vogueshe said her openness doesn’t come from a conscious effort to appear confident: “I think it’s just like I don’t want to be anybody else.”
The Midsommar the actress shared that magazine cover shoot — like the one she shot for British Vogue — are “a muscle I’ve learned to be okay with.”
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“I’m not a model. He shows a completely different version of himself that I don’t necessarily believe. You have to believe that you deserve to be on those pages because you’re beautiful,” Pugh said.
“But now I know what I want to show. I know WHO I want to show. I know who I want to be and I know what I look like. No more insecurities about who I am.”
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The actress said that she did not hesitate to shave her head to play Almut, a cancer patient We live in a time which will be in theaters on October 11. It was “absolutely important that you see her head and that we see her shaving it – it was always easy,” she said.
“You have the honor of doing something for yourself that is completely in support of the character,” Pugh said, adding “I’ve never had a challenge to play pain.”
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Florence Pugh for British Vogue.
Venetia Scott/Vogue magazine. See the full article in the October issue of British Vogue, on newsstands from Tuesday 24 September.
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In fact, she said, “Sometimes I prefer it. That’s always the most important thing, no matter what I do. I feel it is my duty to play human and uglytranslate what it looks real and what it feels painful – whether it’s an ugly cry or a face that won’t calm down or a sitting stomach [isn’t held in] when you’re naked.”
What’s important, she told the publication, is “that I’m a good person and that people feel good in my presence.”
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