Florence Pugh says she 'face-planted in mud' thanks to a sheep while filming 'The Wonder'

• Florence Pugh said she filmed a lot of "The Wonder" on top of mountains.
• But the crew found it difficult working with some of the animals.

When general audiences think of Florence Pugh, they might instantly think of her haunting performance in "Midsommar," as wrestler Paige in "Fighting With My Family," or all the drama surrounding "Don't Worry Darling." But her next role in Netflix's "The Wonder" is a much more serious affair.

The period film follows nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) as she's sent to observe a young girl in the Irish midlands who has supposedly not eaten for four months.

The actor worked with director Sebastián Lelio on "The Wonder," which shot on location in Ireland back in 2021. Not only did the cast and crew have the difficulty of working on top of a mountain, but they also had to deal with uncooperative animals as part of the set.

Pugh appeared on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" Tuesday to talk about "The Wonder," recalling the moments when the animal stars refused to work with the crew.

She said: "Whenever you'd work with the animals on the mountains, they were also like, 'Why are we on a mountain? It's really windy and cold.' And there was one take we were walking with a horse, and the horse just turned around sideways and was like, 'Nope. Not walking anymore.'"

The animal antics didn't stop there, as Pugh recalled the moment that a sheep tripped her up.

She explained: "And I had a sheep run into me, and I face-planted in mud. Like, full-on mud."

Unfortunately for the star, she had a very big audience of "50 to 60" fans watching her the moment she fell over filming the scene.

Pugh said: "I had a very simple scene where I had to walk across, just walk across the road like that, just walk but with really intense facial expressions going on. And as I was walking past this sheep, the sheep wouldn't move out of the way. So I like, gently patted the bum and that sheep went 'Rrr!' And then another sheep next to it went like, 'Rrr!' and then that sheep ran into me."

The star went on to say: "I flipped over the sheep and went straight down into cowpat. It was like full-on mud. It was great."

Hollywood is glamorous.