Florence Pugh revealed she suffered from depression after the shooting Midsommar.
The actress revealed that she was “sad for about six months” after filming wrapped, thanks to the film’s heavily emotional content.
In the 2019 horror film, directed by Ari Aster, Florence played Dani, a character who suffers extreme family trauma and then witnesses a series of gruesome murders.
“The character is in such a horrible state of life and is constantly on the verge of a panic attack,” the 29-year-old actress told Louis Theroux on his The Louis Theroux Podcast, before adding that she herself had “never, ever been through anything like that.”
Having led a comfortable life before making the film, she explained that the experience of going “through hell” left her traumatized.
“I really tried hard to get through it,” he recalled.
“At first, I was just imagining hearing the news that one of my brothers had died. And then, towards the middle of filming, I was like, oh no, I actually needed to imagine the coffins. And then, towards the end of filming, I was actually going to my whole family’s funeral,” she said. black widow mentioned star.
On a plane back home after leaving the film’s European set, Florence shared that she had broken 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 discomfort.
“My brain obviously had sympathy for myself, because I had abused myself and really manipulated my own emotions to get a performance,” Florence Pugh explained before concluding with the statement: “I can’t exhaust myself like that because it has a knock-on effect. I think it made me sad for six months after that.”
