Florence Pugh has no plans to return to roles like \u201cMidsommar\u201d because of how poor her mental health got filming the Ari Aster horror-thriller.<\/p>\n
While guesting on \u201cThe Louis Theroux Podcast,\u201d Pugh explained that she abused her mental health so much playing Dani in the 2019 horror film that she made a promise to herself to avoid roles like it in the future. Her character suffers a mental breakdown after going on vacation with her boyfriend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just can\u2019t exhaust myself like that because it has a knock-on effect,\u201d Pugh said. \u201cI think [\u2018Midsommar\u2019] made me sad for like six months after and I didn\u2019t know why I was depressed. I got back after shooting\u00a0\u2018Little Women,\u2019 which was such a fun experience and obviously a completely different tone from \u2018Midsommar,\u2019 so I think shelved all of that. And then when I got home for Christmas, I was so depressed and I was like, \u2018Oh, I think that\u2019s from \u2018Midsommar,\u201d and I didn\u2019t deal with it and I probably shouldn\u2019t do that again.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI had never seen that level of grief or mental health in the way that was being asked of me on the page. So for that, I really put myself through it. At the beginning, I just imagined hearing the news that one of my siblings had died, and then towards the middle of the shoot it was like, oh no, I actually needed to imagine the coffins. And then towards the end of the shoot, I actually was going to my whole family\u2019s funeral.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMidsommer\u201d was Aster\u2019s second film after 2018\u2019s breakout horror hit \u201cHereditary.\u201d Pugh explained that her character\u2019s spiral into a mental breakdown at the hands of her toxic boyfriend on their trip had her just falling headfirst into that mindset. It wasn\u2019t just the loud moments that affected her but the whole energy surrounding playing Dani that stuck with Pugh long after the film wrapped.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just crying. I needed to sound pained,\u201d Pugh said. \u201cI\u2019d never done anything like that before and I was like, okay, well here\u2019s my opportunity. I need to give this a go. And I would just basically put myself through hell. But I don\u2019t do that anymore. It really f\u2013ked me up.\u201d<\/p>\n
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