Florence Pugh has opened up about her decision to shave off her hair as she hit out at Hollywood vanity.
The British Oscar-nominated actress, 27, recently opted for the razor cut for upcoming romantic drama We Live in Time and debuted her dramatic new look at the Met Gala in May.
Revealing she has always fought to “control her image” in the industry, she said of her change of image: “I purposefully chose to look like that. I wanted vanity out of the picture.
“Hollywood is very glamorous - especially for women - and it’s hard for an audience to see past that,” she added to the Radio Times.
‘Whenever I’ve not needed to be glam or have a full face of make-up, I fight to keep it that way.
She went on to tell how she believes ditching the glam “helps the audience” as well as herself.
“It helps me when I’m wearing less make-up, because then I’m less of a sparkly thing on screen. I feel like I’m allowed to do ugly faces, like it’s more acceptable,” she concluded.
Pugh’s latest movie, Oppenheimer, is due to be released in UK cinemas nationwide from Friday.
She, along with co-stars Matt Damon, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr, walked out of the London premiere on July 13 in anticipation of the SAG-AFTRA strike which was announced shortly afterwards.
Addressing attendees at the Odeon Luxe in Leicester Square ahead of the screening, director Christopher Nolan acknowledged his cast’s absence.
“We have to acknowledge (that) you’ve seen them here earlier on the red carpet,” Nolan said, adding “unfortunately they’re off to write their picket signs for what we believe to be an imminent strike by SAG.”
Lending his support to their act of solidarity, he said that they join “one of my guilds, the Writers Guild, in the struggle for fair wages for working members of the union, and we support them.”
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been on strike since May.
