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Florence Pughsays she went to dark places while filming her 2019 horror filmMidsommar.
As Pugh, 27, appeared on theOff Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acasterpodcast Tuesday, the Academy Award-nominated actress recalled the intense filming process on director Ari Aster’s daylight-set nightmare, in which she plays a woman named Dani who attends a midsummer festival in rural Sweden in the aftermath of her family’s tragic deaths.
“I’d never played someone that was in that much pain before, and I’d put myself in really s— situations that maybe other actors don’t need to do,” Pugh told co-hosts and comedians Ed Gamble and James Acaster. “Each day, the content would be getting more weird and harder to do, I was putting things in my head that were just getting worse and more bleak.”
The actress recalled feeling “immense guilt” over her character as she set out on her next project, Greta Gerwig’sLittle Women, days after wrappingMidsommar.
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“I remember looking down and feeling immense guilt, like I felt so guilty, because I felt like I’d left her in that field, in that state, and it was so weird, I’d never had that before,” Pugh said during her podcast appearance.
“It’s funny, I’d obviously created such a sad person and then felt guilty that I’d created that person and then left her,” she added.
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Elsewhere in the podcast, Pugh recalled that her grandparents accompanied her to theMidsommarpremiere.
“I remember my granddad at the end was like ‘well, I wouldn’t have watched it if you weren’t in it,’ and I was like ‘no, I know that, granddad,’ " she recalled of her grandfather’s reaction to the horror film.
Pugh currently stars inA Good Person, which she worked on in collaboration with her ex boyfriend and writer-directorZach Braff. Braff, 47, has praised Pugh as they promote the movie, noting that she inspired him to write the movie.
“I’m just in awe of her talent and I said, ‘I wanna write this for Florence. What I’m writing is really gonna be challenging, and she’s incredible,’ " he recently told Entertainment Tonight, addingthat Pugh, 27, is “a next-level actress"and “just unbelievable.”
A Good Personis playing in theaters everywhere now.
source: people.com
