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Florence Pugh: I emotionally abused myself on the set of 'Midsommar'

Politiko 2023-04-02 15:46:01

Florence Pugh: I emotionally abused myself on the set of 'Midsommar'

Florence Pugh said she felt she had "abused" herself while filming the 2019 horror film Midsommar, about a woman who becomes involved in a strange cult at a midsummer festival in Sweden. The actress told the "Off Menu" podcast on Friday:

"When I did it, I was so wrapped up in it, and I've never had that before with any of my characters. I'd never played someone in so much pain before. And I'd put myself in situations which maybe other actors don't need to do, but I would just imagine the worst."

She said the content got "weirder and harder to do" with each day of filming. Pugh said:

"I was putting things in my head that were getting worse and darker. I think towards the end, maybe, I probably abused myself to get that performance."

Florence Pugh: I emotionally abused myself on the set of 'Midsommar'

The 27-year-old said she had to leave three days before filming was due to start filming 2019's Little Women. While on a plane flying to Boston, she said, she felt "tremendous guilt," as if she had left her character Midsommar on the field where they were shooting as her character had what she described as "a psychotic breakdown". She added:

"It was so weird. I've never had it before. Obviously, it's probably a psychological thing where I felt tremendous guilt about what I'd put myself through. But I definitely felt like I'd left it out there in that field for to be abused. She can't take care of herself, almost like I had created this person and then left her there when I had to go and make another movie."

She said that most of the time when acting she feels that her characters "would be fine" and "know how to handle themselves" after the film is over. But she felt strangely protective of the character she had created in "Midsommar". Pugh praised Midsommar director Ari Aster as "special in a crazy genius kind of way" and a "comedian at heart," while acknowledging the difficulty of shooting the horror film.

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