{"id":2163604,"date":"2025-11-18T04:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2163604"},"modified":"2025-11-18T04:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:27:08","slug":"florence-pugh-only-regrets-making-one-movie-and-its-this-80s-set-netflix-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/florence-pugh-only-regrets-making-one-movie-and-its-this-80s-set-netflix-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence Pugh only regrets making one movie \u2013 and it’s this ’80s-set Netflix horror"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Florence Pugh<\/a> has opened up on the 80s-set Netflix horror movie she “probably” wishes she had never made.<\/p>\n

Released in 2018, Malevolent sees Pugh in the lead role of Angela, who, alongside brother Jackson (Ben Lloyd-Hughes), runs a scam as fake paranormal experts hired by those who believe their homes are haunted.<\/p>\n

That is, until one case changes the trajectory of their lives and leaves them questioning whether the sinister entities they have always been skeptical about are, in fact, real.<\/p>\n

It received a mixed reaction from critics and fans alike, holding a lukewarm 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And lead star Pugh was among those criticising the supernatural horror film, telling Louis Theroux on his podcast that she has never watched the film.<\/p>\n

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“I love horror. I’ve even seen Malevolent, not for research. I just happened to have seen it,” Theroux said, to which Pugh shared that she had not seen it since making it.<\/p>\n

“It’s probably the one movie that I wish I never did. I think everybody has one of those movies,” she continued.<\/p>\n

When asked why she wished she hadn’t done it, she replied: “I think it was just a movie that I did when I was younger, and I needed money. And I was like, well, obviously this is great. And then I got there and it wasn’t great.”<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the podcast, Pugh explained how her role as Dani in the iconic horror film<\/a> Midsommar “f****d her up” and how she “manipulated her own emotions” for her performance.<\/p>\n

Ari Aster’s<\/a> award-winning film follows Dani as she, boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor)<\/a>, and a group of their friends travel to a small Swedish village to visit Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren).<\/p>\n

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While there, Dani is forced to reflect on her relationship<\/a> with the increasingly distant Christian, a recent, devastating personal tragedy, and the roots of the cult as their visit becomes increasingly bizarre and violent.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the film, Pugh said: “When I did Midsommar, the character [Dani] is in such a horrible state in her life. She’s constantly on the brink of a panic attack or an emotional breakdown.<\/p>\n

“I’d never ever been through anything close to that or knew anyone that had been through that or feels like that. I had never seen that level of grief or mental health in the way that was being asked of me on the page.<\/p>\n

“So for that, I really put myself through it. At the beginning, I just imagined hearing the news that one of my siblings had died, and then towards the middle of the shoot, it was like, oh no, I actually needed to imagine the coffins. And then towards the end of the shoot, I actually was going to my whole family’s funeral.”<\/p>\n

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Related: Midsommar ending explained: Why Dani did what she did, and what it all meant<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

She continued: “The thing that I was being required to do was something that I didn’t know how to get there. It wasn’t just crying. I needed to sound pained.<\/p>\n

“I’d never done anything like that before and I was like, okay, well here’s my opportunity. I need to give this a go. And I would just basically put myself through hell. But I don’t do that anymore.”<\/p>\n

She went on to say she “manipulated herself” to achieve the haunting performance, and that she had trouble separating “Dani and Florence” between takes.<\/p>\n

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Florence Pugh has opened up on the 80s-set Netflix horror movie she “probably” wishes she had never made. Released in 2018, Malevolent sees Pugh in the lead role of Angela, who, alongside brother Jackson (Ben Lloyd-Hughes), runs a scam as fake paranormal experts hired by those who believe their homes are haunted. That is, until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2163605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[305568,329323,339322,23191,340000],"class_list":["post-2163604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-florence-pugh","tag-horror-film","tag-louis-theroux","tag-netflix","tag-supernatural-horror-film"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Florence-Pugh-only-regrets-making-one-movie-\u2013-and-its.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163606,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163604\/revisions\/2163606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2163605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}