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Florence Pugh: ‘I’ve watched talented, beautiful women get torn apart’

The British star says she’s ‘too gobby’ to play by Hollywood rules — and reveals why she is taking on trolls, body shamers and her sexist industry

That is real range, with her deep voice and twisted brio the one constant as she leaps from comedy to horror to drama (she was Oscar-nominated for her Amy March in Little Women) to Marvel blockbuster — and, now, a rom-com of sorts in We Live in Time. Dani is lured into a Swedish death cult, and to place herself in that frame of mind Pugh “imagined family members in coffins, going to an open casket funeral for my siblings — I was hyperventilating”. I am not going to be able to just change the way that things are — but I can certainly help young women coming into this industry by making conversations happen where they weren’t before.” Recently she revealed that she has had her eggs frozen after a diagnosis of endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome.

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