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Florence Pughgives new meaning to the cutting room floor in her latest film.
“For me, whenever I was particularly low as a teenager, I would do lots of quick fixes,” recalled Pugh. “I would buy things like nail kits or scissors and go onto YouTube and find out how to do it. I was just looking in any direction but the thing that was making me sad.”
InA Good Person, she plays Allison, a woman who forms an unlikely friendship with her would-be father-in-law Daniel (Morgan Freeman) years after she was in a fatal crash that killed his daughter, her then-fiancé’s sister.
Also a producer on the film, Pugh noted it was her idea to make the chop on camera. “Everyone was really anxious that it was the only take we’d have, but I found it really liberating,” she said. “If anything, it was like the final key to unlocking this character. It took vanity out the window.”
Florence Pugh and Zach Braff.Jeff Spicer/Getty
Braff, 47, who wrote, directed and produced the movie, toldUSA Todaythat “everyone was biting their nails” the day of the scene.
Robert Lugo, head ofA Good Person’s hair department, told PopSugar it wasn’t the original plan. “I thought we were going toget a custom-made wig,” he said, noting she did rehearse with wigs and “wasn’t nervous” when it came time to shoot the scene.
Fortunately, the result didn’t need to be perfect. “It was supposed to be a f—ed-up haircut, so I thought, the more messed up, the better,” added Lugo.
RELATED VIDEO: Florence Pugh and Zach Braff Support Each Other on Red Carpet for Their FilmA Good PersonAfter Breakup
Pugh and Braffreunited on the red carpetof the U.K. premiere forA Good Personearlier this month, after she revealed in August thatthey quietly broke upfollowing three years together. They met while working together on another title, his short film,In the Time It Takes to Get There.
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A Good Personis now in select theaters, premiering worldwide on March 31.
source: people.com
