Florence Pugh admitted that she nearly abused herself to get into her character for movie Midsommar.
Midsommar starred Pugh as Dani, a grieving American psychology scholar who breaks down psychologically after becoming a member of her poisonous boyfriend on a visit to Sweden’s midsummer pageant.
“When I did it, I was so wrapped up in her and I’ve never had this ever before with any of my characters,” Pugh revealed throughout her look at a podcast Off Menu.
“I’d never played someone that was in that much pain before, and I would put myself in really shitty situations that maybe other actors don’t need to do but I would just be imagining the worst things” she added.
The actress went on telling “Each day the content would be getting more weird and harder to do. I was putting things in my head that were getting worse and more bleak. I think by the end I probably, most definitely abused my own self in order to get that performance.”
In one other interview with The New York Times Pugh was all praises for the director on the film, Ari Aster, as she stated, “He’s peculiar in a mad genius type of a manner” and “a stand-up comedian at heart.”
“Once you laugh at one thing, he will try and make you laugh at all the other things. He’ll keep going and everybody will be crying in fits of laughter” she further revealed.
“We were shooting in a very hot field with three different languages, so I wouldn’t say that all of it was pleasurable,” Pugh continued about making the film.
“Also, it shouldn’t be. Why would making a film like that be pleasurable?”
However, Midsommar earned rave evaluations for Pugh’s efficiency and will make solely below $50 million on the worldwide field workplace.
