Florence Pugh Says It’s Scary When People Get Upset Over Her Body: ‘We Can’t Even Look at My Nipples Behind Fabric in a Way That Isn’t Sexual’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Speaking to fellow actor Jodie Turner-Smith for Elle magazine’s style awards, Florence Pugh railed against the backlash she often gets for exposing skin either in movies or on the red carpet.
It was over one year ago when Pugh seemed to break the internet by wearing a see-through dress at a Valentino couture show in Rome, which ignited online conversation about her body.
The Oscar nominee took to Instagram at the time to condemn “vulgar” trolls who were who sought to “totally destroy a woman’s body.” “I speak the way I do about my body because I’m not trying to hide the cellulite on my thigh or the squidge in between my arm and my boob: I would much rather lay it all out,” Pugh now told Turner Smith. “I think the scariest thing for me are the instances where people have been upset that I’ve shown ‘too much’ of myself.
When everything went down with the Valentino pink dress a year ago, my nipples were on display through a piece of fabric, and it wound people up.” “It’s the freedom that people are scared of; the fact I’m comfortable and happy,” Pugh continued. “Keeping women down by commenting on their bodies has worked for a very long time.
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