Florence Pugh says her ‘Midsommar’ role left her ‘broken for a long while’

Florence Pugh is hesitant to play another role like the one she portrayed in 2019 horror “Midsommar,” saying she felt like she “abused” herself and was “broken for a long while afterwards.”

Florence Pugh is hesitant to play another role like the one she portrayed in 2019 horror “Midsommar,” saying she felt like she “abused” herself and was “broken for a long while afterwards.” In the movie, the British actress starred as Dani, a grieving graduate student who joins her boyfriend on a visit to rural Sweden to observe a festival that happens every 90 years during the summer solstice. Pagan rituals and cultish horrors soon begin to unfold in the seemingly friendly community in the Ari Aster-directed movie loosely inspired by the Scandinavian festival of midsummer. “Protecting myself is something I’ve had to learn how to do,” Pugh told the “Reign with Josh Smith” podcast. The actress, who stars alongside Andrew Garfield in the newly-released romantic drama “We Live in Time,” said on the podcast that some roles she has played require giving “too much” of herself and can leave her feeling “broken for a long while afterwards.” “Like when I did ‘Midsommar’… I definitely felt like I abused myself in the places that I got myself to go,” she said.