“There are fine boundaries that women must adhere to or they will be labeled divas, demanding or problematic,” says Pugh.
The film industry doesn’t make it easy for young women – that’s Florence Pugh’s feeling. In an interview published on December 15th, the Brit spoke in detail about the toxic behavior towards women in Hollywood.
“Women are torn apart, despite their talent and beauty”
The 28-year-old revealed to “The Times” her understanding of the expectations placed on women in the film business: “There are fine boundaries that women have to adhere to, otherwise they are called divas, demanding or problematic,” said Pugh critically.
However, she herself doesn’t want to be put into prefabricated boxes as an actress and woman: “I don’t want to fit into the stereotypes that others make. It’s really stressful for a young woman to be in this industry, but also in other industries. But I’ve always been encouraged to have a voice.”
Only the look and not the creation counts, or what?
This own statement is important – especially when the outside world would reduce it to appearance, which Florence Pugh noticed not only in herself but also in others: “Not everyone has incredibly long legs. I remember watching this industry and feeling unrepresented. I remember terrible headlines about Keira Knightley not being skinny anymore. Women are torn apart, despite their talent and beauty. “The only thing people want to talk about is some unnecessary nonsense about their appearance,” she said in the interview.
Pugh herself faced a real shitstorm when she walked the red carpet of the Valentino Haute Couture show in Rome in July 2022 in a pink dress through which her nipples shone through. Her look was commented on in a vulgar manner online.
The actress then shared a photo of herself in a semi-transparent outfit on Instagram and wrote: “It’s interesting to see how easy it is for men to completely destroy a woman’s body, publicly and proudly for everyone to see .” And further: “What’s even more worrying: Why are you so afraid of breasts? Small? Large? Left? Right? Just one? Maybe none? What. Is. So. Scary.”
Pugh stands by himself and wants to support
The actress made it clear to “The Times” that she didn’t want to accept anything from the industry or the public – Pugh also had no intention of changing to fit in. In the conversation, she explained how throughout her career she had always tried to question how women were perceived and what the film world said they should look like. “I actually didn’t want to challenge,” says Oxford-born Mimin. “I just wanted to be there and create space for a version of a person that wasn’t who they were supposed to be,” she said afterwards.
Florence Pugh came to the conclusion: “I’m proud of myself and looking the way I look – I don’t really care about people who are still mad at me for not losing more weight , or who just hate my nose ring. I can’t just change circumstances – but I can help young women coming into this industry by starting conversations that didn’t exist before.”