Producers wanted to change everything about her

Actress Florence Pugh apparently had a bad experience with the film industry in one of her first roles: At 19, she was cast in the pilot of the Fox series “Studio City”. However, the producers did find fault with her overall look, Pugh told dem “Telegraph”. She was supposed to change almost everything about herself: “My weight, my looks, the shape of my face, the shape of my eyebrows”.

Actually, Pugh was delighted to have landed a promising role after her film debut in The Falling (2014): “I thought I was lucky and I was very grateful and I could believe that I got this top job had,” she said. In “Studio City” she was supposed to play a young singer trying to break through in the entertainment industry. Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff’s series was canceled after the pilot.

“It was kind of not what I wanted to do or the industry I wanted to work in,” Pugh says of the impression she felt when she was told everything she needed to change. “I felt like I made a huge mistake.”

It wasn’t until her starring role in the drama film Lady Macbeth (2016) that “I fell in love with film again, the kind of film that’s a space where you can be opinionated and loud,” says Pugh. “I stuck to that. I think it’s way too easy for people in this industry to push you around. And I was fortunate enough to discover what kind of performer I wanted to be when I was 19.” Pugh was last seen in Olivia Wilde’s thriller Don’t Worry Darling.

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