Florence Pugh Talks Taking a Break From Acting & Toxic Fans: “I can see I’m exhausted”

Florence Pugh is currently one of the most popular young actresses in Hollywood. She keeps lining up big roles with no end or stopping in sight. The actress appeared in several blockbusters in the last two years In ‘Oppenheimer’ (2023), she portrayed Jean Tatlock.

She provided the voice for the character Kiriko in the English dub of ‘The Boy and the Heron’ (2023). In ‘Dune: Part Two’ (2024), she portrayed Princess Irulan. Her latest release is ‘We Live In Time,’ with MCU’s ‘Thunderbolts*’ yet to be released next year where she will reprise her role as Yelena Belova.

Naturally, the actress is exhausted and she recently opened up to British Vogue explaining that for the first time ever she was forced to take a break from acting:

For the first time ever in my career when I’ve actually asked for a summer break. I’m an absolute work maniac, [but] I can see I’m exhausted. I suddenly woke up last year and I was like, ‘I hate how much of my life I’ve missed.’ Yes, I want to have a career forever, but that’s not going to happen if I work myself into the ground.

One of the factors that certainly contributed to her break was the fact that her body was often scrutinized due to not exactly falling into the established beauty standards.

Although the actress is gorgeous toxic fans often find something to complain about. In 2022, she responded to online scrutiny over wearing a sheer halterneck gown by telling the internet to stop focusing on her body. The level of public scrutiny she faces must be immense, and the actress explained that the internet is a horrible place:

[The internet’s] a very mean place. It’s really painful to read people being nasty about my confidence or nasty about my weight. It never feels good. The one thing I always wanted to achieve was to never sell someone else, something that isn’t the real me. I don’t think it’s confidence in hoping people like me. I think it’s just, like, I don’t want to be anyone else.

Despite all the backlash, the actress says she is not insecure and she knows what kind of image she wants to show to the world:

but I’m not a model. It’s portraying a completely different version of myself that I don’t necessarily believe in. You have to believe that you deserve to be in those pages being beautiful. But now I know what I want to show. I know who I want to show. I know who I want to be and I know what I look like. There’s no insecurities about what I am anymore.

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