'Don't Worry Darling' star Florence Pugh was told to lose weight - Insider

• Florence Pugh says executives tried to alteration her representation astatine the commencement of her career. 
• The prima was told to suffer value and alteration her "look." 
• Pugh initially thought she'd made a mistake by joining the movie industry.

"Don't Worry Darling" prima Florence Pugh has rapidly go 1 of the astir fashionable stars connected the satellite acknowledgment to her roles successful the likes of "Outlaw King," "Midsommar," "Little Women," and "Black Widow." But her vocation started mode backmost successful 2014 erstwhile she starred successful "The Falling" other "Game of Thrones" alum Maisie Williams.

But aft Pugh got her archetypal starring role, she was told by executives that she needed to suffer value and alteration her representation if she wanted to succeed. The histrion spoke to The Telegraph erstwhile she recalled her experiences starting retired successful the industry.

The British prima explained that erstwhile she was 19 she headed to the United States to audition for caller TV shows, and was formed successful the failed pilot, "Studio City," arsenic an aspiring musician. But the executives moving connected the bid wanted her to alteration her look arsenic portion of the job.

Pugh said: "All the things that they were trying to alteration astir maine — whether it was my weight, my look, the signifier of my face, the signifier of my eyebrows — that was truthful not what I wanted to do, oregon the manufacture I wanted to enactment in."

The histrion felt similar she knew what to expect aft starring successful "The Falling," but the stark opposition was shocking for her. 

Pugh went connected to say: "I'd thought the movie concern would beryllium similar [my acquisition of making] 'The Falling,' but actually, this was what the apical of the crippled looked like, and I felt I'd made a monolithic mistake."

The amusement ne'er made it past the aviator signifier and Pugh returned to the UK, wherever she landed the starring relation successful William Oldroyd's "Lady Macbeth," which rekindled the actor's emotion for film. 

She added: "That made maine autumn backmost successful emotion with cinema — the benignant of cinema that was a abstraction wherever you could beryllium opinionated, and loud, and I've stuck by that."

Pugh's vocation has flourished since then, precocious starring successful Olivia Wilde's "Don't Worry Darling" adjacent to Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan, and Nick Kroll. Rumors swirled that Pugh feuded with Wilde connected the movie owed to the director's narration with Styles, which reportedly culminated successful a screaming match.

 The prima volition adjacent beryllium seen successful Netflix's play drama, "The Wonder," arsenic good arsenic Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" and "Dune: Part Two" successful 2023.