It's a big taboo that this actress has just broken.
Like sisters with equally intense scores, such as Natalie Portman, this Hollywood phenomenon has agreed to shave her head… For real. And this in order to make her performance more authentic in her latest film, where she rubs shoulders with Andrew Garfield. You know her: it's Florence Pugh, revelation of Midsommar, star of Dune and Oppenheimer.
Florence Pugh who in the melodrama and rom com Love in the Present faces illness and refused to wear a wig for this role. Even if it means saying goodbye to your tresses… And remembering all the weight that weighs on the place of hair within the sacred stereotypes of femininity. Florence Pugh testifies, and it is very inspiring…
A big taboo broken: Florence Pugh tackles this subject that is still too stigmatizing for women
In an interview, our colleagues from Première report, the actress explains this choice to the end: “We had this discussion with the director and I ended up saying to him: 'John, no one can play a character like this, in a film like this, and not do what needs to be done. '. If I'm not ready to do this, then I shouldn't be in a movie like this. Inside a story about the powerful connection between two people“.
Florence Pugh once again embraces her mantra: her body, her choices.
A feminist slogan that she has claimed for years. Like when in 2022, she went to the Valentino show wearing a fuchsia pink dress from the Italian fashion house, revealing her chest under the transparent fabric. This is what we call a “naked dress”, since magnified by Lily Rose Depp and Charli XCX (the popstar paid the price unfortunately).
In doing so, Florence Pugh had perpetuated a very daring and controversial outfit. Fashion flamboyance which, however, generated the worst comments.
“This isn't the first time and it certainly won't be the last that a woman has been told what's wrong with her body by a crowd of strangers“, had in return castigated the 28-year-old actress. “So many of you aggressively wanted to let me know how disappointed you were with my 'small breasts', or how embarrassed I should be to have a 'flat chest'… I live in my body for a long time. I am fully aware of the size of my breasts and I am not afraid of it“.
“Why are you so afraid of breasts? Little ones? Fat ? It is. Such. Terrifying!“, finished the phenomenal actress. By shaving her head, it is another taboo that the star is breaking. Because it is not easy to accept yourself as a woman when you shave your head.
The views of others are not always synonymous with benevolence. “People get away with anything when they have a shaved head. I had a very bad time during this period. I didn't think a simple haircut would teach me so much about myself…“, one of our interlocutors, Hannah, testified in our article on the subject.
But others see this scissoring as an absolutely liberating gesture.
This is the case of Lucie and Juliette, two of our readers, posing these pretty words on this challenge to patriarchy: “women who decide to shave their heads free themselves from preconceived ideas about beauty, and offer themselves a good opportunity to start from scratch… It's as if I voluntarily put myself outside the injunctions of traditional femininity and of all its classic patterns, by simply cutting a few centimeters“
