Florence Pugh Was Asked To Make Changes To Her Body For Making It Big In Hollywood

Hollywood actress Florence Pugh shared that she was told to “lose weight” and “change the shape” of her face if she wanted a successful career in Hollywood.

Florence Pugh told The Telegraph newspaper: “I felt very lucky and grateful, and couldn’t believe that I had got this top-of-the-game job … (But) all the things that they were trying to change about me – whether it was my weight, my look, the shape of my face, the shape of my eyebrows – that was so not what I wanted to do, or the industry I wanted to work in.”

The actress’ made her first big role in 2014 movie ‘The Falling’ and she went on to land a part in a TV movie called “Studio City”, but Florence felt disappointed with her experience in the States and start worried that she’d made the wrong career choice.

Florence Pugh went on: “I’d thought the film business would be like (my experience of making) ‘The Falling’, but actually, this was what the top of the game looked like, and I felt I’d made a massive mistake.”

Actress continued her acting career back in her native UK and she scored a leading role in 2016’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ and she said the project made her “fall back in love with cinema.”

She added: “I think it’s far too easy for people in this industry to push you left and right. And I was lucky enough to discover when I was 19 what kind of a performer I wanted to be.”

Florence Pugh wants to tackle roles that focus on her acting ability rather than her appearance, explaining: “When I could be naked at whatever size I was, and bare-faced, and the acting could speak for itself. There’s nothing for people to be distracted by – they can’t be like, ‘Oh, I don’t like the make-up.’ It was a wonderful reminder, ‘Oh, yeah – this is who you are.'”