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Florence Pugh Says She “Can’t Do” Roles Like ‘Midsommar’ Again: “I Definitely Feel Like I Abused Myself”


Florence Pugh gives it all in her performances, and there are some that she "can't do" due to the intensity.

The Oppenheimer and Don’t Worry Darling star recently reflected on her career and said that to protect herself mental health, she couldn’t do a character like Midsommar again. She continued, “Like when I did Midsommar, I definitely felt like I abused myself in the places that I got myself to go to, which is the nature of figuring these things out is you need to go, ‘All right, well, I can’t do that again, cause that was too much. Pugh starred in the 2019 Ari Aster film alongside Jack Reynor as a couple discovering they were drawn into a violent cult in Sweden.

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