In a current interview with The Sunday Occasions, the We Reside in Time actress stated it is “exhausting” being a girl within the leisure business.

Whereas pertaining to the current headlines made by fellow Brit, Keira Knightley, who stated she was publicly shamed by the press after starring in Pirates of the Caribbean at simply 17 years previous, Pugh touched on the road ladies need to tow to outlive Hollywood’s wrath.

“There are nice strains ladies have to remain inside, in any other case they’re referred to as a diva, demanding, problematic. And I do not wish to match into stereotypes made by others,” the 28-year-old Oscar nominee advised the publication. “It’s actually exhausting for a younger lady to simply be on this business, and really different industries.”

She continued, “I keep in mind watching this business and feeling that I wasn’t represented. I keep in mind godawful headlines about how Keira Knightley is not skinny anymore, or watching ladies getting torn aside regardless of being gifted and delightful. The one factor individuals wish to speak about is a few ineffective crap about how they appear. And so I did not care to abide by these guidelines.”

It is a matter Pugh has touched on earlier than, with the Midsommar star telling The Telegraph in 2022 that she thought changing into an actor was a “huge mistake” after she was physique shamed by studio executives at age 19.

Pugh recalled coming off her characteristic movie debut within the 2014 psychological drama The Falling, when she landed a lead function within the Fox sitcom Studio Metropolis. It did not take lengthy earlier than she stated the studio executives who employed her for the present started to physique disgrace her, and allegedly requested Pugh change issues about her bodily look.

“All of the issues that they had been attempting to alter about me — whether or not it was my weight, my look, the form of my face, the form of my eyebrows – that was so not what I needed to do, or the business I needed to work in,” Pugh stated. “I might thought the movie enterprise could be like [my experience of making] The Falling, however really, this was what the highest of the sport regarded like, and I felt I might made an enormous mistake.”

Studio Metropolis was by no means picked up, and Pugh was finally solid in Girl Macbeth, which gained rave evaluations for her efficiency.

“That made me fall again in love with cinema — the type of cinema that was an area the place you might be opinionated, and loud, and I’ve caught by that,” she defined. “I believe it’s miles too simple for individuals on this business to push you left and proper. And I used to be fortunate sufficient to find after I was 19 what sort of a performer I needed to be.”

The Little Girl star continued, “There’s nothing glamorous about it, and I believe that is what I really like. After I get to be fully uncooked, that is after I really feel like I can actually be watched. After I could possibly be bare at no matter dimension I used to be, and bare-faced, and the appearing might communicate for itself. There’s nothing for individuals to be distracted by: they can not be like, ‘Oh, I do not just like the make-up.’”

“It was an exquisite reminder: ‘Oh, yeah — that is who you’re,’” Pugh concluded.