Florence Pugh Was Told to Choose Between Little Women and Midsommar | Women in Hollywood | ELLE

- And actually, Danny Zuko from "Grease," I think I was most obsessed with watching him and studying him and his hips. (Florence chuckling) I'm Florence Pugh, and this is "Women in Hollywood." (upbeat music) Oh God, a stressful day. Do "Dune" first. Go have some lunch, process that, chat about it, dissect it, talk about it, maybe have the night off to talk about it. Following day, do "Avengers," or in the evening do "Avengers." I don't know, just go watch them both. That would be great. And then tell me what you think. Working with Timothy on set, you know, he's an old friend. I've known him from almost like the very beginning of it all. So it's always wonderful seeing friends that are on this journey with you and that you can look to and be reminded of where you came from. He holds so much of the set and the storyline together, so it's a big ask of someone. I always admire my friends that are working hard and have a lot to achieve. The most Hollywood thing that ever happened to me was I learned how to drive on the Warner Brothers studio lot. (Florence chuckling) I was 19 at the time and there was this shop where I needed to drive, you know, up to a house and I didn't know how to drive. And so we had the head of transpo, the captain, taught me how to drive around Warner Brothers studio lot. I would be driving down those avenues that would say like, Marilyn Monroe or whatever. It was very funny. It was Phoebe from "Friends" that was my hero. I just loved how quirky she was and all of her outfits and her fantastic hairstyles. I just thought she really gave me permission to have a bit of a freak, (Florence chuckling) freak personality. And then actually Danny Zuko from "Grease." I just loved the way that he moved and I loved his confidence. And not that I knew it at the time, but looking back on it, I think I was most obsessed with watching him and studying him and his hips. (Florence chuckling) I wanted to sign onto "Midnight Library" because I wanted to make it. I was reading the book a few years ago and I just, I kept on visualizing how we would shoot it and where I would want the camera. And I just remember thinking like, this would make an amazing movie. This has been written for an adaption. I was told that I had to choose between either being Amy March in "Little Women" or Dani from "Midsommar." I knew in my gut that I had to do both. And I knew that if I let one of them go, I would regret that decision for the rest of my life. And I called both directors with a big ball of nerves in my stomach because I really wasn't at the stage of my career where I should be calling a director and telling them that they need to reschedule their shoot, but I did. And I remember just telling myself like, "This is really hard. This is going to require for you to be very brave, but you need to do this because if you don't, you'll regret not trying." And I did, and they made it work. So I'm grateful for that. (upbeat music) If this season of my life has a soundtrack, could it be Lucy Rose, maybe a bit of Keane? I want a bit of Crowded House. Let's get some Olivia Dean in there because duh. Let's end with some Joni Mitchell. Oh, everybody asks me this and my answer is always the same. Yeah. I don't know when or how. I would love to do it. I really, really love doing that. I love hearing from people how it made them feel and that it felt like they had a friend in their kitchen. And it's crazy that it was literally just me doing like terrible angles with pasta sauce under my fingernail. Maybe it's something that is a little bit bigger than "Cooking with Flo." Maybe it's like "Cooking with Flo and Others." I think it would probably be something hearty, something to remind them that they're safe and something to fill their tummies. So I would probably end up cooking like a chicken soup or a one pot chicken, like chicken thighs in the pan with chickpeas and chorizo, tomatoes and broth. And then I'd do like a big dollop of mashed potato on the bottom. Well, we need a bit of veg, don't we? What if we did like a corgi and broccoli, salty, spicy thingy so it's like still crunchy and you can put it in the broth. And then maybe we're opening a bottle of Barolo so that gets people nice and warm and syrupy and then they can start laughing. A cheeseboard, an epic cheeseboard, open another bottle of Barolo, because presumably 20 people have already drank that, gooey goats, a dry goats, a camembert, a truffly, like a gooey one, a good crunchy cheddar. Maybe we've got some like spicy piquillo peppers, some crackers. Yeah. Oh, I'm hungry now. (upbeat music ending)