Florence Pugh Reveals Her Three Rules for Film Sets: "Show Up on Time, Don't Be Rude, Don't Be a Misogynist"
"Show up on time, don't be rude, don't be a misogynist," Pugh said, boiling her whole philosophy down to one line.
"I'm Not Standing for It Anymore"
"Every time I work on a movie, I get more confident in the way that I can protect myself and the way that I can lead a film set, and just not stand for bullshit anymore," the Oscar-nominated actor, 30, told the magazine. "I'm not standing for bullshit behavior. I'm not standing for bullshit attitude. I'm not allowing for people to be rude to the crew."
Pugh explained that one person with a bad attitude can poison an entire production — once someone throws the atmosphere off, everyone on set feels it. "I don't want to deal with messy," she said. "It's just about surrounding yourself with professionals who have the same way of working in mind." She did not name any people or past projects in the interview.
The "Dunesday" Problem
The interview arrives at the busiest moment of Pugh's career. On December 18, she appears in two of the year's biggest films opening on the very same day: she returns as Princess Irulan in Dune: Part Three and as Yelena Belova in Marvel's Avengers: Doomsday — a clash fans have already nicknamed "Dunesday."
Her advice for audiences trying to do both? "Do Dune first. Go have some lunch, process that, chat about it, dissect it, talk about it, maybe have the night off to talk about it," she said. "The following day, do Avengers, or in the evening, do Avengers. I don't know, just go watch them both."
Before that, her performance in Netflix's East of Eden has been drawing praise — another sign that Pugh is heading into the holiday season as one of the most in-demand actors in the world, on sets that now run by her rules.
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