#lib wright

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lib wright icons.

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Cracksibling gifs: Florence Pugh and Sam Claflin part III.

Gif maker: @harleystuff and me.

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Florence Pugh photographed by Josh Shinner

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FLORENCE PUGH 🛐🛐🛐

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Florence Pugh as Lib Wright in 'The Wonder' (Film, 2022).

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— florence pugh as lib wright in the wonder

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started on my lib imagine!!

i’ve been watching the movie over and over cause i get too distracted by flo 😂

but it’s coming along!!!

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London-writer Emma Donoghue shares stories from new Netflix movie “The Wonder”

By Connor Luczka Jan 21, 2022 | 3:55 PM

Emma Donoghue’s first film after the colossal success of Room is off to a good start. Not only is it funded and set to be released by Netflix, but it’s also starring Midsommar and Black Widow actress Florence Pugh.

“We’ve got the best of both worlds there. Because through Netflix we have the serious funding needed and also the sheer reach. And I can’t tell you yet how it will come out . . . all I can tell you is that it’ll definitely come out on Netflix sometime this year.”

On January 19th, Donoghue was hosted by the Canadian Club in an event sponsored by the Grand Theatre. 2022 is a busy year for her and she has a lot to talk about. Not only does she have a new movie coming out, but also a play making its long-awaited debut at the Grand Theatre here in London, and a new book. She decided to focus on her upcoming movie The Wonder.

The Wonder (2022)

Pugh as nurse Lib Wright in The Wonder (Netflix).

Donoghue realized very quickly that the casting of Pugh was the right choice– even if it wasn’t originally what she had in mind when writing the 2016 novel.

“I probably would have thought of the Nurse as a bit older, and didn’t want her to be too young and pretty. But Florence Pugh –if you’ve seen her in anything– she has an extraordinary kind of sturdiness and earthiness. Despite her glamour, she’s got this quality. Earthiness. On the first day of filming, I realized that she was going to bring all her intelligence to this role, because the first thing she said was, ‘Do you mind if I do her in a Yorkshire accent?’ I had just assumed that this extremely well educated nurse from London would speak what I would call posh-English. But Florence said a lot of the nurses who worked with Florence Nightingale were from Yorkshire.”

“And I realized that the accent is crucial because she manages to take away any sort of hint that this nurse is just a posh, snobby outsider. The accent was a crucial intervention to get this quality of  pragmatism and warmth.”

Of course, with any film being made in the last few years, COVID protocols were a huge setback and priority. But aside from N95 masks and social distancing, other less obvious barriers presented themselves.

“Anytime one of the actors might come over to me– like Toby Jones or something– I find myself holding my breath so as not to breathe on the actors. I said this to someone who said to me, ‘oh, no, the really important thing is don’t spray on any of the carpenters. There’s a carpenter shortage.’”

They also had to deal with other, even more niche, problems.

“I had casually written she pushes to a flock of sheep. You write that and then many years later, there you are watching the sheep being wrangled and hearing how difficult sheep are to work with. And it does make you feel a bit like ‘what have I done?’ Especially the moment when the sheep knocked Florence Pugh over.”

“I know we’d have had insurance but I didn’t know that we have insurance specifically for sheep”

Donoghue also says that making a film or play is a unique experience, and one that she adores.

“They’re collaborative. They’re thrilling. I would say some of the most exciting and fun moments in my career have been times in rehearsal rooms, sitting around the ground working with a cast and team assembled in several different countries. I mean, for The Wonder we had a donkey wrangler, we had somebody whose job was to do faxing, somebody whose job was to carve holes and stones to make holy wells. The writer doesn’t get to feel she owns every little bit of it. Whereas with a novel, it’s a different pleasure.”