Florence Pugh reveals intense technique she used while filming Midsommar that made her ‘hyperventilate’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Florence Pugh has revealed the intense technique she used to get into the mindset of someone lured into a Swedish death cult in the 2019 horror film Midsommar. “I’d never played someone that was in that much pain before and I would put myself in really s*** situations that maybe other actors don’t need to do but I would just be imagining the worst things.” She continued: “Because each day the content would be getting more weird and harder to do, I was putting things in my head that were getting worse and more bleak. “I think by the end I definitely abused my own self in order to get that performance.” Pugh in a typically intense scene in ‘Midsommar’ In a four-star review for The Independent, critic Clarisse Loughrey called Midsommar “one of the year’s strangest, most distressing, and most memorable films”. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free “I’m proud I’ve stuck by myself and look the way I look,” she said.