admin There is something a little Sex Pistols about this image of Florence Pugh. Not the 1970s punk-rock band, that is, but the 2022 miniseries which brought a group of ascendant actors together and encouraged them to gel their hair into a Johnny Rotten up-do and then wag their tongues for a bit. Taken just outside Disney’s Burbank studios in Los Angeles, Pugh joined hundreds of film professionals as part of the SAG-AFTRA strike with a placard reading “Grrrrrrr!!! This is bullshit!”
The actor’s appearance on the picket line comes less than a month after she and the rest of the Oppenheimer cast walked out of the film’s London premiere in solidarity with those campaigning for increased pay and improved working conditions in entertainment media. Coinciding with the WGA strike, this is the first time in 60 years that both actors and writers have been on simultaneous strikes. As a result, Hollywood is largely on pause, with productions halting until an agreement is reached.
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Pugh – with her electric hair and septum piercing – knows that protesting for progress is legitimately punk. And when so many lesser-known actors are being encouraged against making political statements, it makes Pugh’s presence all the more valuable. Dressed in a broderie anglaise prairie dress and platform Converse, she is the latest celeb to join the picket line, following, quite literally, in the footsteps of Colin Farrell, America Ferrera, Aubrey Plaza, and Tina Fey.
