Florence Pugh Says She Still Gets "Nasty" Comments About Her Weight

"It's really painful."

It's widely known that with fame and celebrity comes unwanted public scrutiny. Since landing on the scene with Lady Macbeth and being launched into superstardom with Midsommar, Oppenheimer, and Dune, Florence Pugh has encountered her fair share of haters. She opened up about how she deals with "nasty" comments in a new interview with British Vogue.

The Don't Worry Darling star told the publication the internet is "a very mean place," and its toxic environment can be difficult to navigate.

“It’s so hard. It’s really painful to read people being nasty about my confidence or nasty about my weight. It never feels good," Pugh said. "The one thing I always wanted to achieve was to never sell someone else, something that isn’t the real me."

Pugh explained being blunt isn't a conscious effort to seem confident, but rather to show that she doesn't want to be anyone else. The most important things to her are being a "good person" and making people feel good in her presence.

The actress previously opened up about her body confidence to Elle U.K. last year, saying, “I speak the way I do about my body because I’m not trying to hide the cellulite on my thigh or the squidge in between my arm and my boob.”

She further shared with Vogue that magazine cover shoots are a muscle she has learned to flex.

“I’m not a model. It’s portraying a completely different version of myself that I don’t necessarily believe in. You have to believe that you deserve to be in those pages being beautiful,” Pugh said. “But now I know what I want to show. I know who I want to show. I know who I want to be and I know what I look like. There’s no insecurities about what I am anymore."

Embracing realness is the same philosophy she brings to her acting. For example, she said shaving her head for her upcoming film We Live in Time, in which she plays a cancer patient, was a "no-brainer."

“You have the honor of doing something to yourself that is totally in support of the character...I’ve never found it a challenge to be acting in pain," Pugh added. “I sometimes prefer it. That’s always the most important thing, whatever I do. I feel like it’s my duty to play human and ugly, to translate what looks real and what feels painful—whether that’s an ugly cry or a face that doesn’t settle or a stomach that sits when you’re naked.”

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