Florence Pugh revealed she suffered from depression after the shooting Mid-evening.
The actress revealed that she was “sad for about six months” after filming wrapped, thanks to the film’s highly emotional content.
In the 2019 horror film, directed by Ari Aster, Florence plays Dani, a character who suffers from extreme family trauma and later witnesses a multitude of heinous murders.
“The character is in such a horrible place in her life and she’s constantly on the verge of a panic attack,” the 29-year-old actress told Louis Theroux on his podcast The Louis Theroux, before adding that she herself had “never, ever experienced anything like that.”
Having led a comfortable life before making the film, she explained that the experience of putting herself “in hell” traumatized her.
“I would really get into it,” she recalls.
“At first, I was just imagining hearing the news that one of my siblings had died. And then around the middle of filming, it was like, oh no, I really needed to imagine the coffins. And then towards the end of filming, I was actually going to the funeral of my whole family,” she said. Black widow star mentioned.
On a plane home after leaving the film’s European shoot, Florence shared that she broke down in tears and felt guilty for letting Dani “figure out how to do the rest of her life,” which she realized was an attempt to soothe her own emotional turmoil.
“My brain obviously felt sympathy for myself, because I had overdone myself and really manipulated my own emotions to get a performance,” Florence Pugh explained before concluding with this statement: “I just can’t burn myself out like that because it has a ripple effect. I think it made me sad for about six months after that.”
