Although Florence Pugh is known for the strong characters she plays, one of her most challenging and, perhaps, most vulnerable was that of Dani in 2019’s Midsommar. In recent interview through the podcast Off Menu, Pugh talked about her process of creating the character, and her ultimate guilt once her job was done.
Pugh recounts her difficulty while disregarding her health: “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.”
She says, “I’d never played someone that was in that much pain before, and I would put myself in really shit situations that maybe other actors don’t need to do, but I would just be imagining the worst things.”
When it came time to leave the set of Midsommar to begin filming for Little Women, Pugh describes her sentiments about Dani: “I felt like I’d left her there in that field, in that state, and it was so weird… She can’t fend for herself, almost like I’d created this person, and then I just left her when I had to go do another movie.”
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