Florence Pugh suffered "trauma" after shaving her head for a movie role. The 'Midsommar' star plays a chef who receives a shocking medical diagnosis in new film 'We Live in Time' and she's revealed it was a "bizarre" experience having all her hair lopped off. She told Britih Vogue magazine: "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. 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." She added: "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. "You have the honour of doing something to yourself that is totally in support of the character.
” Florence's head was shaved onscreen by her co-star Andrew Garfield, who admitted it was a nerve-wracking experienc. He told the magazine: "It was a privilege to be given that job. [But] 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.
" In the interview, Florence also opened up about facing criticism about her appearance from online trolls, admitting: "It’s so hard. [The internet’s] a very mean place. It’s really painful to read people being nasty about my confidence or nasty about my weight.
It never feels good. "The one thing I always wanted to achieve was to never sell someone else, something that isn’t the real me.".
