{"id":204864,"date":"2025-11-13T01:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/florence-pugh-says-midsommar-led-to-six-months-of-depression-because-id-abused-myself\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T01:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:53:25","slug":"florence-pugh-says-midsommar-led-to-six-months-of-depression-because-id-abused-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/florence-pugh-says-midsommar-led-to-six-months-of-depression-because-id-abused-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence Pugh Says \u2018Midsommar\u2019 Led to Six Months of Depression Because \u2018I\u2019d Abused Myself\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Florence Pugh says <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Midsommar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#Midsommar<\/a> led to six months of depression because she abused herself to get into character: &#8220;I don\u2019t do that anymore. It really f*cked me up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just can\u2019t exhaust myself like that because it has a knock-on effect. I think [\u2018Midsommar\u2019] made me sad for like\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ASaTRWxFoO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ASaTRWxFoO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1988375178607231070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Florence Pugh revealed that getting into the mindset of her character in &#8216;Midsommar&#8217; lead to six months of depression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had never seen that level of grief or mental health in the way that was being asked of me on the page,\u201d Pugh said. \u201cSo 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, \u2018Oh no, I actually needed to imagine the coffins.\u2019 And then towards the end of the shoot, I actually was going to my whole family\u2019s funeral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy brain was obviously feeling sympathy for myself because I\u2019d abused myself and really manipulated my own emotions to get a performance, but I also then felt sorry for what I\u2019d done,\u201d Pugh said. \u201cIt was very, very strange and I\u2019ve never ever been worried about my characters from the day that I finish. But [Dani] was the one that I felt like I\u2019d left her in that field with the film crew just filming her cry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/1988375178607231070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/131479633.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florence Pugh says #Midsommar led to six months of depression because she abused herself to get into character: &#8220;I don\u2019t do that anymore. It really f*cked me up.&#8221; \u201cI just can\u2019t exhaust myself like that because it has a knock-on effect. I think [\u2018Midsommar\u2019] made me sad for like\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/ASaTRWxFoO \u2014 Variety (@Variety) November 11, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-204864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}