Florence Pugh is sharing just how spiritual it was to shave her head for “ We Live in Time .” Pugh plays Almut, a woman whose love story with husband Tobias (Andrew Garfield) is interrupted after a troubling medical diagnosis. The decades-spanning A24 indie has already been billed as a “deeply affecting tear-jerker” by IndieWire critic David Ehrlich.
Yet for the Academy Award-nominated actress , the real emotion of the film stemmed from her lack of hair. Pugh told British Vogue that it was a “really bizarre” experience to go bald for the role. “In many religions, hair is the most precious thing on the body – it’s where you store your memories and your dreams and your history.
[Shaving] it was really bizarre,” Pugh said. “My head was so sensitive and so many people were trying to touch it and it was so alive. My body went into a bit of trauma from it.
I was cold all the time.” Pugh’s co-star Garfield actually shaved her head on-camera. “It was a privilege to be given that job,” Garfield said.
“What if I somehow destroyed the head of one of the best actors of her generation? It was terrifying, but ultimately it was a very beautiful, intimate scene to shoot and thank God she has such a nicely shaped melon.” “I’m so glad I get to talk about it now,” Pugh said of shaving her head. “For any actor taking a role like this, it is completely important that you see her head and we see her shaving it – it was just always a no-brainer.
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