Florence Pugh recalls some ridiculous feedback she received from studio executives on her appearance, which caused her to regret becoming an actor: 'I felt I’d made a massive mistake.'
In a new interview, Florence Pugh recalls being body-shamed by studio executives when she 19. The English actor is one of the most promising young talents working in Hollywood today. Last year, she made her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Yelena Belova in Black Widow and reprised the role for the Disney+ series Hawkeye.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY In 2014, Pugh made her feature film debut in the psychological drama, The Falling, in which she played a precocious teenager opposite Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams. Pugh's performance was enough for her to begin courting interest in other roles, including the Fox sitcom Studio City. Pugh accepted a lead role in the series as a rising pop star alongside Eric McCormack as her father.
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. I’d thought the film business would be like [my experience of making] The Falling, but actually, this was what the top of the game looked like, and I felt I’d made a massive mistake.
How Studio City Changed Florence Pugh's Career Fox ultimately passing on Studio City ended up significantly benefiting Pugh's career. Afterward, she returned home to England, and just two weeks later, Pugh landed her breakthrough role in Lady Macbeth, for which she won a British Independent Film Award.
Now, Pugh is an MCU star and has joined the ensemble cast of Marvel's Thunderbolts movie. She will increase her profile with roles in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two as Princess Irulan. If Fox picked up the failed sitcom Studio City to series, Florence Pugh would have likely made a long-term commitment to the series, which would have prevented her from taking on her breakthrough role and drastically changed her career trajectory.
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