Overview
- In a new interview on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Pugh recounts the emotional cost of playing Dani and calls the feelings she accessed “horribly real.”
- She says she manipulated her emotions by imagining personal bereavement and now refuses methods that exhaust her mental health.
- Pugh moved directly from Midsommar to Greta Gerwig’s Little Women with only a few days between shoots and broke down on the flight during the abrupt transition.
- She stresses that the harm was self‑inflicted and reiterates previous praise for writer‑director Ari Aster.
- Pugh’s comments add to wider discussions in film about mental‑health safeguards and the limits of immersive acting approaches.