Florence Pugh is one of the most critically acclaimed and publicly beloved actresses right now. With films like Midsommar, Black Widow, her Oscar-nominated role in Little Women — the actress has been winning hearts left and right. The actress also appears in Oppenheimer for a brief role, for which she has already set audiences worldwide abuzz. Pugh plays Jean Tatlock, a communist and a psychiatrist with whom Oppenheimer pursued an intermittent relationship. The actress shared an anecdote recently which also exemplifies her relationship with the director.
Oppenheimer: Christopher Nolan Apologised To Florence Pugh
In an interview with MTV UK, which was filmed before the SAG-AFTRA strike, Pugh shared a story about how Nolan apologised to her for the brevity of her role,
“I didn’t really know what was going on or what it was that was being made. Except I knew that Chris really, really wanted me to know that it wasn’t a very big role, and he understands if I don’t want to come near it. And I was like, “Doesn’t matter. Even if I’m a coffee maker at a cafe in the back of the room, let’s do it.”
I remember [Nolan] apologized by the size of the role. I was like, “Please don’t apologize.” And then he said, “We’ll send you the script, and honestly, you just read it and decide if it’s like… I completely understand the sizing thing.” And I remember that evening when I got the script being like, “I don’t need to… I know I’m going to do it.”
The actress has left a tremendous performance in the film, with one of the most controversial sex scenes in Nolan’s cinema. Pugh manages to translate the intensity of Tatlock to the screen, and she also offers a harrowing performance in the suicide scene. Oppenheimer has gone on to become one of the highest grossing non-franchise films in the last few years
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