LOS ANGELES — Hollywood star Florence Pugh, who received praise for her work in
the Ari Aster directorial ‘Midsommar’, has shared that she is not likely to do
a role like ‘Midsommar’.
Furnishing the reason behind the same, the actress said
that she feels like she abused herself while playing the film’s protagonist
Dani, a grief-stricken American woman who has a psychological breakdown when
she joins her toxic boyfriend on a trip to a Swedish midsummer festival,
reports ‘Variety’.
The actress made the revelation during a recent interview
on the ‘Reign with Josh Smith’ podcast. She said she’s “learned how to” protect
herself as an actor over the years, and part of that is knowing when you just
can’t do a role again.
“There have been some roles where I’ve given too much and
I’ve been broken for a long while afterwards”, the actress said. “Like when I
did ‘Midsommar’, I definitely felt like I abused myself in the places that I
got myself to go”.
“The nature of figuring these things out is you need to
go, ‘Alright, well, I can’t do that again because that was too much’”, she
continued. “But then I look at that performance and I’m really proud of what I
did, and I’m proud of what came out of me. I don’t regret it. But, yeah,
there’s definitely things that you have to respect about yourself”.
As per ‘Variety’, any abuse that Pugh suffered during the
making of ‘Midsommar’ was strictly self-inflicted.
She has nothing but praise for director Ari Aster and
told The New York Times last year that he’s “peculiar in a mad genius kind of a
way” and “a stand-up comedian at heart”.
She added, “Once you laugh at one thing, he will try and
make you laugh at all the other things. He’ll keep going and everybody will be
crying in fits of laughter
