Overview
- She describes the emotional strain as self‑inflicted, saying she "abused" her own mental health to reach the character’s grief.
- Pugh says the process included imagining a sibling’s death, coffins, and her whole family’s funeral to make her performance sound genuinely pained.
- She realized the toll during the rapid move to Little Women, breaking down on the flight and feeling she had left the character behind.
- Pugh praises director Ari Aster and stresses the harm was not caused by him, while acknowledging she probably could have used more support on the chaotic shoot.
- She says she will not take roles like this again because the approach had a lasting knock‑on effect on her wellbeing.