Florence Pugh is revealing the “trauma” she skilled after shaving her head for a job.
In an interview with British Vogue launched on Wednesday, Sept. 18, the 28-year-old British actress opened up in regards to the choice to chop her hair for her upcoming movie, We Stay in Time. Within the romantic drama, which additionally stars Andrew Garfield, Pugh performs Almut, a chef who’s recognized with stage 3 ovarian most cancers.
“[Shaving] it was actually weird,” the actress informed the outlet. “My head was so delicate and so many individuals have been making an attempt to the touch it and it was so alive.”
Pugh additionally shared that her “physique went right into a little bit of trauma from it,” including: “I used to be chilly on a regular basis.”
The Oppenheimer actress defined why the choice to shave her head was so necessary to her.
“For any actor taking a job like this, it’s utterly necessary that you just see her head and we see her shaving it — it was simply at all times a no brainer,” she stated. “You’ve the honour of doing one thing to your self that’s completely in help of the character.”
Forward of the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of We Stay in Time on Friday, Sept. 6, director John Crowley informed PEOPLE solely that he was “stunned“ Pugh shaved her head for the function.
The director, 55, stated that earlier than Pugh dedicated to the lower, he brainstormed methods to provide her a shaved-head look with the hair and make-up division.
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“Earlier than I went to fulfill [Pugh], I, being conscientious, went to my fabulous hair and make-up woman and stated, ‘Look, how can we do that? As a result of if you cannot shave it, what do you do?’ ” Crowley recalled. “So I had all of my type of much less good methods of doing it in thoughts, however earlier than I even obtained to say something about any of that, she was, ‘I am shaving my head by the best way.’ ”
“I didn’t make an argument for her to not do this. I used to be shocked as a result of I knew she was going to go off and do a Marvel film and we slotted proper right into a window as a result of her Marvel film simply shunted again a bit bit,” he continued, referring to Pugh’s role as Yelena Belova within the MCU.
Crowley added, “So she’s fearless, Florence, and actually dedicated.”
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Pugh debuted her shaved look on the 2023 Met Gala, the place she additionally wore a towering headpiece.
In an interview withVanity Fair printed on Thursday, Sept. 5, the actress spoke in regards to the scrutiny she confronted for the look.
“I feel there was this bizarre rumor on the web saying that I did it to take again my identification,” Pugh recalled studying, although she’d by no means claimed any related assertion in her “whole life.”
We Stay in Time premieres in theaters on Oct. 11.