Love in the present: why Florence Pugh (really) shaved his head

A great romantic drama with Andrew Garfield, in which she plays a young woman struck by illness. “I did what should be done,” she said.

Florence Pugh is not the type to cut hair in four.

For romantic drama Love in the present (We live in time), broadcast on Canal Plus this Friday evening (and also visible on MyCanal), the Marvel actress (also seen in Thunderbolts* This year in the cinema) has decided to shave your head!

For John Crowley’s film (Brooklyn), she embodies Almut, a woman whose love story with Tobias (Andrew Garfield) is interrupted after a terrifying medical diagnosis. In an interview with Vanity Fairshe told last September why she asked the director not to wear a wig to play this role. She thus chose to completely shave her head:

“We had this discussion where I stopped him saying: ‘John, nobody can play a character like this one, in a film like this, and not do what must be done’. If I’m not ready to do that, then it is that I shouldn’t play in a film like that. “

Florence Pugh continues and explains that she had lived handling hand in hand with Andrew Garfield. “We protected each other”. Then she admits that she was looking for “for a long time“A woman’s role “Very, very normal who has talent in his own way.

“The story simply speaks of powerful love and the powerful connection between two people (…) It’s been a long time since we have known a love story of this kind. When I read it, I fell in love with the idea of ​​playing in this kind of film that will count for many people and who will live for a long time”.

Here is the trailer for Love in the present ::

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