If there is anyone that we believe that is going to tell it like it is, that would be Florence Pugh. She’s smart, witty, and full of life. Florence Pugh is an institution. She plays all of her roles fearlessly, but in the end, we feel like she’s definitely herself.
And we LOVE that.
While speaking with The Sunday Times, Pugh had a lot of insight to give. We especially love her take on women in Hollywood and how they are treated.
She said, “I’m not nasty — I hope people think I’m kind. But there are fine lines women have to stay within, otherwise they are called a diva, demanding, problematic. And I don’t want to fit into stereotypes made by others. It is really exhausting for a young woman to just be in this industry, and actually other industries. But I’ve always been encouraged to have a voice.”
We love her voice and are thankful that she uses it. BECAUSE in our opinion she uses it for good. She’s listened to herself and that’s been an amazing thing. Not all of us take the time to listen to our minds and our bodies. A lot of us were raised to keep on the grind all of the time – not taking time to put ourselves out there and first.
Pugh, who took some time away from acting over the past year, realized that she needed to come first. After filming We Live in Time, she felt changed. The heaviness of the film stayed with her.
“When I finished filming my life changed,” Pugh explained to the Times. She then continued, “Relationships came and went, and I had this opportunity to look at my life away from my work. And I realised, OK, I need to wake the f*** up.”
It’s what she said next that had us in tears, because we related.
She said, “I had to look away from my career, from movies, from wanting to be this kind of actor, that kind of actor. Or how many awards I would love to get before I pass away. That’s been my focus for ten years, but I want to make sure that the things I need to do, whether children, family, change, change in relationships … well, I realised I need to make changes now. Because I’m a worker bee and that is why I’ve never wanted a break. Everything was just, wow! What’s next? And it is only ten years in that I can now go, oh, I need to do a bit of my life.”
We love her philosophy and her bluntness. We definitely want her to take the time she needs, but just know we’ll watch everything she does.
After all, like we said, Florence is an institution. We respect that.
