Florence Pugh has pushed back against body shaming in the entertainment industry calling it “exhausting.”
Pugh has always been an outspoken woman in the industry calling out the behaviour of people online.
In a recent interview with The Times, the British Actress added that she’s “always been encouraged to have a voice.”
After being photographed in 2022 wearing a see-through dress, she was heavily criticised and body-shamed by trolls but, Pugh is not one to hold her tongue.
She hit back at the trolls by posting on Instagram, “What’s been interesting to watch and witness is just how easy it is for men to totally destroy a woman’s body, publicly, proudly, for everyone to see.”
“So many of you wanted to aggressively let me know how disappointed you were by my ‘tiny tits’ or how I should be embarrassed by being so ‘flat chested’”
“Grow up. Respect people. Respect bodies. Respect all women. Respect humans. Life will get a whole lot easier, I promise.”
During the interview, she described how she felt feeling like her body type was not being represented in the difficult industry.
“Look, not everybody has legs that go on for days.”
“I remember watching this industry and feeling that I wasn’t represented.”
“I remember godawful headlines about how Keira Knightley isn’t thin any more, or watching women getting torn apart despite being talented and beautiful.”
She added that she is proud of her body and that she wants to help women who are just coming into this industry.
“I’m proud I’ve stuck by myself and look the way I look — I’m really interested in people who are still angry with me for not losing more weight, or who just hate my nose ring.”
“I am not going to be able to just change the way that things are,”
“But I can certainly help young women coming into this industry by making conversations happen where they weren’t before.”
Pugh also talked about two roles that people claim are her best roles, Lady Macbeth and The Wonder, both who were marginalised women in the 1800s.
“Well, it’s always been fashionable to tell a woman how she should live her life,”
“Or that the decisions they are making are wrong or too loud. It’s about control, isn’t it?”
“It’s still ultimately about suppressing one sex, and we’re dealing with it all the time.”
“And to state the obvious, the point is not to stay quiet? “I don’t know..”‘Most intelligent people would just be quiet and go live their life,” she shrugged.
“But I am a bit too gobby and argumentative.”
“A bit too yappy. But I wouldn’t be able to not say how I feel, especially when it’s me being attacked.”
“If people don’t want me to be this way they’re going to be severely disappointed.” She told the interviewer.
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