Florence Pugh admits to having mistreated and put in “extreme situations” to shoot ‘Midsommar’

Florence Pughone of the actresses of the moment, He has looked back to one of the most recognized roles of his career. The actress, who starred in the horror film, ‘midsummer‘, by Ari Aster, has acknowledged having “mistreated“rolling the same.

In the film we see Pugh in the shoes of Dani, a young woman who has recently lost her parents, and who embarks on a trip to a small Swedish community, with her friends, for a summer party.

“When I did, I was really into it. It had never happened to me before with any character,” Pugh recounted in the podcast by James Acaster and Ed Gamble. “I had never played someone who was in so much pain.”

“I put myself in some really fucked up situationswhich other interpreters may not need. I kept imagining horrible things…” the actress continued.

“Every day, what we recorded became more strange and complicated. I was putting worse and darker things in my head. I think that, In the end, she was mistreating me so she could play her.”

Immediately after the end of filming ‘Midsommar’, the actress had to move to Boston to start recording ‘Little Women’, the Greta Gerwig film. In it she gave life to Amy, Jo’s laughing little sister. A register completely opposite to that experienced in Aster’s tape.

“I remember feeling guilty. She felt that she had left Dani, in that field, in that emotional state,“said the actress.

“It was very strange. I’ve never felt that before… Obviously, it’s a psychological result. I probably felt guilty for what I had done to myself.. She definitely felt like he had left her in that place to be beaten…”

Later, Pugh added: “It was like I created that person and left them there to make another movie..”

However, the actress also clarified that this entire experience had been the result of an internal process, praising Aster’s work as a director and his good treatment during filming. “He is, on the one hand, a mad genius and, on the other, a comedian at heart,“The interpreter had commented, in the past, to The New Yorker. “When you laugh at something, it will try to make you laugh at everything else. It did not stop, we all ended up crying with laughter.”

“We shot in a field where it was very hot and three languages ​​were spoken. I wouldn’t say it was easy, but it shouldn’t be. Because [hacer una película] should be something pleasant?”