2020-04-01_Total_Film

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Her role in Black Widow is the big-budget,

high-profile cherry on the top of an

astonishing ascent. Total Film talks succulents

and superheroes with Florence Pugh.

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hen Total Film catches up with

Florence Pugh in LA after she’s

finished filming Black Widow,

the first thing we want to

discuss is Barry the Cactus. A tiny

potted plant who became sickly in

Pugh’s BW trailer, his plight and her

attempts at cactus surgery were detailed

via Pugh’s regular, jovial, no-filter

Instagram posts which keep followers

updated on all of the 24-year-old Brit’s

normalcies, from zit outbreaks to

adventures in marmalade making.

“I feel like I need to apologise to my

publicist,” she cackles in that inimitable

throaty laugh. “He’s upstaging

absolutely everything.”

That would be hard to do given the

year or so Pugh has just had. Though she

filmed it around the same time as her

searing breakout performance in Lady

Macbeth, WWE biopic Fighting With My





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