![]() So, yeah, I was scared of meeting Meryl Streep, but I wasn’t quaking in my boots. Meeting big people is obviously terrifying – they are your idols. “Most of the things I’ve done, I’ve been totally terrified of doing. “Me and my agent always realise that whenever I’m scared of a project, I kind of have to do it,” she says. ‘Whenever I’m scared of a project, I kind of have to do it’ Was she scared being parachuted into such an illustrious cast? She is also starring in Greta Gerwig’s follow-up to Lady Bird, an all-star adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, alongside Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan and Meryl Streep. Now she is back on her own terms, amid rumours that she will be taking on the Marvel mantle in a reboot of Black Widow (it makes sense she showed some moves recently opposite The Rock in wrestling tale Fighting With My Family). Until you have the confidence to say no, it’s tricky.” A boiling mass of emotion: Florence Pugh is mesmerising in Lady Macbeth Screening rumours It’s very easy when you’re out there to be swayed and to look the way they want you to look. Two weeks later, she got an audition to play a 19th-century bride in Lady Macbeth – a role that required a fair splash of nudity, but allowed Pugh to “be comfortable in my own body”.Īnd Hollywood? “I knew I didn’t really want to go back until I knew what it was, what I was. Spike Lee on Do the Right Thing at 30: ‘Critics said it was going to incite African Americans to burn shit down’ Was it inevitable that she and her siblings would act? “I think we all loved attention, but it was never something we were forced into.’” “Everybody is very theatrical.” Her first role came when she was 17, still in sixth form, in Carol Morley’s schoolgirl mystery The Falling. “The household was definitely a very loud place,” she admits. While her father owns a chain of restaurants, her mother is a dancer and dance teacher, and her siblings all act – older brother Toby Sebastian played Trystane Martell in Game of Thrones. Performing was part of growing up for her in Oxford. Indeed, it is the only thing Pugh won’t cover. ‘It’s very easy when you’re in Hollywood to be swayed to look the way they want you to look’ “I can’t talk about it,” she says, in such a charming way that you feel bad for asking. There is chatter that she plays adversary-turned-ally Yelena Belova from the comics, but nothing has been officially announced. She is in the midst of filming Black Widow, a stand-alone Marvel film that teams her with Scarlett Johansson’s heroine, Natasha Romanoff. Holed up in a New York hotel, Pugh’s time is precious right now. So most of my effort went into trying to understand grief and pain.” Summer of heartbreak “I’ve never witnessed or been through any of the trauma she has gone through. ![]() She admits she was “apprehensive” about her character’s experience being so far removed from her own.
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