Florence Pugh says #Midsommar led to six months of depression because she abused herself to get into character: “I don’t do that anymore. It really f*cked me up.”
“I just can’t exhaust myself like that because it has a knock-on effect. I think [‘Midsommar’] made me sad for like… pic.twitter.com/ASaTRWxFoO
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Florence Pugh revealed that getting into the mindset of her character in ‘Midsommar’ lead to six months of depression.
“I had never seen that level of grief or mental health in the way that was being asked of me on the page,” Pugh said. “So for that, I really put myself through it. At the beginning, I just imagined hearing the news that one of my siblings had died, and then towards the middle of the shoot it was like, ‘Oh no, I actually needed to imagine the coffins.’ And then towards the end of the shoot, I actually was going to my whole family’s funeral.”
“My brain was obviously feeling sympathy for myself because I’d abused myself and really manipulated my own emotions to get a performance, but I also then felt sorry for what I’d done,” Pugh said. “It was very, very strange and I’ve never ever been worried about my characters from the day that I finish. But [Dani] was the one that I felt like I’d left her in that field with the film crew just filming her cry.”
