Florence Pugh claims movie bosses wanted to change her ‘weight and look’ during early career

Florence Pugh has claimed film industry bosses wanted to change her ‘weight and look’ as she attempted to forge her career as a young actress.

The 26-year-old had received no training when she made her big screen debut in 2014’s The Falling at just 17, and soon jetted out to Hollywood for pilot season.

She was cast as a rising pop star in Studio City a year later, however she was soon told by industry bigwigs that she wasn’t right for the part.

‘I felt I’d made a massive mistake’: Florence Pugh has claimed movie bosses wanted to change her ‘weight and look’ during early her acting career (pictured earlier this month)

She told The Telegraph: ‘All the things that they were trying to change about me – whether it was my weight, my look, the shape of my face, the shape of my eyebrows – that was so not what I wanted to do, or the industry I wanted to work in.

‘I’d thought the film business would be like [my experience of making] The Falling, but actually, this was what the top of the game looked like, and I felt I’d made a massive mistake.’

Studio City was not picked up by a network and she soon won a role in 2016’s Lady Macbeth, which skyrocketed her career.

Florence is now teaming up with Alexander Skarsgård once again for her next film role.

Throwback: The 26-year-old had received no training when she made her debut in 2014’s The Falling at just 17, and soon jetted out to Hollywood for pilot season (pictured in 2014)

The in-demand, Oscar-nominated actress has been tapped to play the lead role in the psychological thriller The Pack alongside Alexander, who will also serve double duty as the director.

Alexander will be helming the shoot from an original screenplay written by Rose Gilroy, the daughter of writer-director Dan Gilroy and actress René Russo, who’s best known for The Edge of Sleep (2019) and Bella (2019) and Project Artemis, which is currently in production.

The Pack follows ‘a group of documentarians who brave the remote wilderness of Alaska in an effort to save a nearly extinct species of wolves,’ according to Deadline.

Opening up: She said: ‘All the things that they were trying to change about me – whether it was my weight, my look, the shape of my face, the shape of my eyebrows – that was so not what I wanted to do, or the industry I wanted to work in’ (pictured earlier this month)

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‘When the crew is brought back together at a prestigious awards ceremony, tensions flare as a deadly truth threatens to unravel their work.

And while ‘the team lived through the harsh elements of the wild,’ the synopsis goes on to tease whether they will ‘survive the night’ of the ceremony due to ‘a secret they share.’

Jennifer Fox (Michael Clayton) will be among the producers while also executive producing.

The Pack is scheduled to begin shooting principal photography in March 2023.

The project reunites Florence and Alexander, who starred together in the British television miniseries The Little Drummer Girl (2018), alongside Michael Shannon, Michael Moshonov, Simona Brown, Clare Holman and Charles Dance.

The Little Drummer Girl, based on the 1983 of the same name by John le Carré, told the story of an aspiring English actress who is recruited by Mossad to infiltrate a Palestinian group plotting terrorism in Europe in 1979.

The six episode spy-thriller drama first aired on BBC One in the UK in October 2018 and then on AMC in the US a month later.

Candid: She added: ‘I’d thought the film business would be like [my experience of making] The Falling, but actually, this was what the top of the game looked like, and I felt I’d made a massive mistake’