Florence Pugh reveals why she decided to shave her head
“Even early in my career, I always struggled to control my image,” the 27-year-old actress told the Radio Times.
Florence Pugh gets candid about her decision to shave her head.
In an interview with the Radio Times, per Daily mailThe Oscar nominee, who debuted her buzzcut at the Met Gala in May, revealed she chose the new hairstyle to “take vanity out of the picture” and keep her look as natural as possible.
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“I made a conscious choice to look like this. I wanted vanity out of the picture,” Pugh, 27, said. “Hollywood is very glamorous – especially for women – and it’s hard for an audience to overlook that. Whenever I didn’t want to be glamorous or have a full face made up, I fight to keep it that way. It helps the viewers.”
“Vanity is gone. Then the only thing people can see is your rough face,” the actress continued.
“Even early in my career, I always struggled to control my image,” she added. “It helps me if I wear less makeup because I don’t have as much glitter on screen. I feel like I’m allowed to make ugly faces like that’s more acceptable.”
The Oppenheimer The star first revealed her buzzcut when she walked the red carpet at the 2023 Met Gala in May. Though her style has grown a bit over the past few months, she’s always diversified by trying different hair colors.
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Earlier this month, Pugh revealed a new pastel pink hair color at the Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week. And last week she traded at the UK premiere of Oppenheimerher hair color matching both her orange dress and the film’s logo and poster.
Pugh has previously pronounced about beauty standards in Hollywood.
In an interview with The Telegraph already in October, the little woman The actress spoke about the pressure to change her looks when she first came to Hollywood.
At 19 Pugh got a TV series, studio city She felt “very lucky and grateful and couldn’t believe I got this amazing job,” she says. However, she was unprepared for the industry itself.
“All the things they wanted to change about me — whether it was my weight, my looks, the shape of my face, the shape of my eyebrows — that wasn’t what I wanted to do, nor was it the industry I was in.” “I wanted to work there,” Pugh recalls.
“I imagined the film business to be like this [my experience of making] “The Falling,” she said, referring to her first acting role at age 17, “but actually the top of the game looked like this, and I felt like I made a huge mistake.”
