“The Person I Came Back To Was A Female Wrestler With Muscles And Big Thighs": Florence Pugh Opened Up About Her Early Roles And Body Standards In Hollywood,"I was told I needed to lose weight — it was just so not the person I wanted to be.”
“The Person I Came Back To Was A Female Wrestler With Muscles And Big Thighs”: Florence Pugh Opened Up About Her Early Roles And Body Standards In Hollywood
Florence Pugh opened up about being asked to lose weight for a role early in her career.
Robert Viglasky / MGM/courtesy Everett / Everett Collection“I quite liked that because the last time I’d been there I was told I needed to lose weight — it was just so not the person I wanted to be.”
Karwai Tang / Getty ImagesOf the characters she does play, she said, “Even if they’re not defined on the page, I always find some way to make them quite confrontational. I never see the bad in them — even when they have killed children and burned boyfriends. I’ve always understood them as people that needed to do what they had to do to survive.”
Jamie Mccarthy / Getty ImagesThis isn’t the first time Flo has addressed this time in her career. She told the Telegraph last year, “I’d thought the film business would be like [my experience with] The Falling, but actually, this was what the top of the game looked like, and I felt I’d made a massive mistake.”
Stefania D’alessandro / WireImage“All the things that they were trying to change about me — whether it was my weight, my look, the shape of my face, the shape of my eyebrows — that was so not what I wanted to do, or the industry I wanted to work in.”
Florence has further emphasized that she wasn’t interested in changing her body for aesthetic reasons for a role, saying earlier this year, “I’m never losing weight to look fantastic for a role. It’s more like, how would this character have lived? What would she be eating?”
David M. Benett / Dave Benett / Getty Images for NetflixYou can read the full interview here.
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