Florence Pugh Opens up About Her Most Iconic Movie Roles: ‘This Film Was Such an Epic Story’
Plus, learn which part her friends were angry at her for taking
Actress Florence Pugh may “only” have less than 40 acting credits and counting to her name, but she has quickly captured the hearts of moviegoers everywhere. First appearing on the silver screen back in 2014, it was her chilling performance in Midsummer, followed by her modern and much more approachable portrayal of Amy March in Little Women, that really solidified her as a versatile actress that people can’t help but fall in love with. Below, we’ve rounded up Florence Pugh’s most iconic roles that have helped pave the path for her success and share how she really feels about them. Keep scrolling for more.
‘King Lear’ (2018)
SYNOPSIS: An 80-year-old king divides his kingdom between his three daughters.
CHARACTER: Cordelia.
FLORENCE PUGH’S THOUGHTS: “I constantly thought that at some point someone was going to be, like, ‘Oh goodness, we should have gone for someone with a theater background.’”
WHERE TO STREAM: Amazon Prime Video.
‘Midsummer’ (2019)
SYNOPSIS: A couple finds themselves in the midst of a Swedish cult.
CHARACTER: Dani.
FLORENCE PUGH’S THOUGHTS: “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.”
WHERE TO STREAM: Max.
‘Little Women’ (2019)
SYNOPSIS: Four sisters deal with the trials and tribulations of growing up during the Civil War.
CHARACTER: Amy March.
FLORENCE PUGH’S THOUGHTS: “Every generation needs it. I don’t think we will ever stop needing a story about four women set in a time where they were told they couldn’t do things, and yet they did.”
WHERE TO STREAM: Hulu.
‘Black Widow’ (2021)
SYNOPSIS: Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) decides to confront her past and reunite with her family, including her super spy sister Yelena (Pugh).
CHARACTER: Yelena Belova.
FLORENCE PUGH’S THOUGHTS: “So many people in the indie film world were really pissed off at me. They were like, ‘Great, now she’s gone forever.’ And I’m like, no, I’m working as hard as I used to work. I’ve always done back-to-back movies. It’s just people are watching them now. You just have to be a bit more organized with your schedule.”
WHERE TO STREAM: Disney+.
‘Don’t Worry Darling’ (2022)
SYNOPSIS: A woman begins to wonder if her perfect 1960s lifestyle is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
CHARACTER: Alice Chambers
FLORENCE PUGH’S THOUGHTS: “We met so many talented people, visited some insane locations, worked hard in the desert dust and looked good whilst doing so…Thank you to all those who have bought tickets and those who have already seen it — whenever I watch massive impressive movie moments on massive screens, I always remind myself that there is a [sound] boom just inches from the frame I’m watching….Explosions, car chases, cocktail balancing, underwater sequences, running, drinking, more running…This film was such an epic story on such a large scale to shoot, all while during peak Covid times.”
WHERE TO STREAM: Amazon Prime Video.
‘Oppenheimer’ (2023)
SYNOPSIS: Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) works on the top-secret, government-funded Manhattan Project. Pugh’s character—Jean Tatlock—is also a physicist working on the project.
CHARACTER: Jean Tatlock.
FLORENCE PUGH’S THOUGHTS: “I knew that Chris [director Christopher Nolan] really, really wanted me to know that it wasn’t a very big role, and he understands if I don’t want to come near it. And I was like, ‘Doesn’t matter. Even if I’m a coffee maker at a café in the back of the room, let’s do it.’”
WHERE TO STREAM: Amazon Prime Video.
‘Dune: Part 2’ (2024)
SYNOPSIS: Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) works to save the planet Arrakis. Pugh plays the Emperor’s daughter, who eventually ends up engaged to Atreides.
CHARACTER: Princess Irulan
FLORENCE PUGH’S THOUGHTS: “I think being a part of a movie that is this impressive and this huge, knowing that we are a part of something unbelievably special that people will be watching for years and years and years to come, it’s a very unique situation that we’re all in. It’s an unbelievably special moment in time for all of us to be releasing something as epic as this movie and knowing that it’s going to continue the love and the journey. Yeah, it’s a huge feeling. Very grateful feeling.”
WHERE TO STREAM: Max.
‘We Live in Time’ (2024)
SYNOPSIS: Almut (Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) embark on an unconventional and passionate journey of love, loss and learning to embrace what life has in store for you.
CHARACTER: Almut
FLORENCE PUGH’S THOUGHTS: “When we finished the movie, every scene that got closer and closer to the end, it became harder and harder to process that we weren’t going to be able to do it anymore.”
WHERE TO STREAM: Max.
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