Florence Pugh is hesitant to play another role like the one she portrayed in 2019 horror “Midsommar,” saying she felt like she “abused” herself and was “broken for a long while afterwards.”
In the movie, the British actress starred as Dani, a grieving graduate student who joins her boyfriend on a visit to rural Sweden to observe a festival that happens every 90 years during the summer solstice.
The actress, who stars alongside Andrew Garfield in the newly-released romantic drama “We Live in Time,” said on a podcast that some roles she has played require giving “too much” of herself and can leave her feeling “broken for a long while afterwards.”
“Like when I did ‘Midsommar’… I definitely felt like I abused myself in the places that I got myself to go,” she said.
In an interview with The Sunday Times last month, Pugh said that, in order to enter the frame of mind needed for the role, she had to imagine family members in coffins and going to an open casket funeral for her siblings.
