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Early on in her career, Florence Pugh was asked to change her body for a TV show that ultimately didn’t pan out. This incident prompted her not to pursue Hollywood until she was clear on her direction. However, Pugh later proved herself to be an asset with roles in films likeThe Wonder,Lady Macbeth, andMidsommar.
Pugh played the traumatized Dani Ardor in Ari Aster’s folk horror filmMidsommar. Pugh recalled filming one particularly difficult scene in the film, which involved her expressing her extreme emotions. Pugh also shared that she had put herself through abuse for the film.
Florence Pugh’s OneMidsommarScene Was Beyond Challenging To Shoot
During an interview withTime, Florence Pugh revealed that she infused each character she played with an element of confrontation and survival, even if the script doesn’t require her to do so. She did the same to execute her character Dani Ardor inMidsommarperfectly. Pugh opened up about the behind-the-scenes emotions when filming one challenging scene in the film.
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In the climax portion of the film,Florence Pugh‘s Dani is crowned as the May Queen and she witnesses a ritual of the Hårga community. In one of the scenes, Pugh’s character lets out cries of despair and she is surrounded by the Hårga women who mimic the same.Pugh reflected on the scenein an Instagram post.
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She shared a photo of hugging all the actors in the scene after wrapping it up. She shared that before the cameras started rolling, the actors in the scene knew that they were in forone of the hardest scenesin the film. Pugh described the scene as awkward, strange, and unnatural. She shared:
We all looked at each other before we started rolling and knew it would be hard. And awkward. And strange. And unnatural. We knew it wouldn’t be pleasurable. But by the end we were all in each other’s laps and crying and allowing our bodies to keep heaving.
She further shared that she wouldn’t probably put herself through another emotionally draining scene like that. She shared that while the scene turned the viewers away from the screen, it was designed to be the“most human”scene. While the audience only got to experience it for seconds, the actors went through emotional pain for hours. She shared:
I knew I would never be so open and so raw and so exhausted like I was that day ever again, I can hope at least… Scenes that make you hurt, or cringe, or turn away from the screen when watching, are scenes that were designed to make you, for ten seconds at least, the most human. But for us, it was hours. Beautiful, hard, proud hours.
Made on a small budget of $9 million, the film went on to gross $48 million (via Box Office Mojo). Aster’s direction and Pugh’s performance were the highlights of the film and received critical acclaim.
Florence Pugh Revealed That She Abused Herself For The Role
Appearing on theOff Menupodcast, Florence Pugh shared that she“most definitely”abused herself to play Dani. She shared that after the filming wrapped, she found it difficult to transition out of Dani. Recalling the experience, she shared that she had never played any character that was in so much pain.
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Pugh admitted that she put herself into“really sh*tty situations”to get into the character. She shared on theOff Menupodcast:
When I did it, I was so wrapped up in her and I’ve never had this ever before with any of my characters. 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,“I was putting things in my head that were getting worse and more bleak.”Pugh shared that when she next went to film Greta Gerwig’sLittle Women, she felt immense guilt because she felt that she had“left [Dani] in that field in that [emotional] state.”It appears that the filming ofMidsommarwas an overall nightmare for the actress.
Midsommaris now available for streaming on Max.
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