Yahoo Movies Oppenheimer's Florence Pugh discusses her 'game-changer' role
Oppenheimer's Florence Pugh has opened up about the one role that changed her entire career.
Ahead of the release of Christopher Nolan's latest epic, the Dune: Part 2 actress has reflected on her wide-spreading portfolio that ranges from Marvel's Black Widow to the folk horror Midsommar to Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women.
In the past, Pugh has talked about how she avoids being type-cast as a "one-trick pony", but in an exclusive interview with Digital Spy, Pugh revealed the role that shaped her most as an actress.
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Pugh said: "Lady Macbeth was probably the thing that kicked me into what it was that I wanted to make and what it was that I wanted to be.
"But also that was weird because I was supposed to actually be doing an American TV show at the time and it got pulled.
"Three weeks later when I was deciding what kind of an actor I wanted to be in the industry, Shaheen Baig sent me this audition through for Lady Macbeth."
When asked about working with Nolan for the first time, Pugh revealed: "I had no expectations, other than the fact that he is probably the director that every single actor would race across the world for and pay for their own plane ticket.
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"No one could have prepared me for what it was like to work with him because that in itself is the experience.
"I would have been totally happy to never have seen this movie, just like being on that set and watching how that man conducts the set and how he conducts the people around him was thrilling enough."
She added: "That was the gift, and it's also wonderful that he also produces something amazing."
Oppenheimer is released in cinemas on July 21
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