Florence Pugh shaved her head 'to get vanity out of the picture': 'The only thing that people can look at then is your raw face'

• Florence Pugh shaved her head for her role in the upcoming movie "We Live in Time."
• She told the Radio Times that she chose the cut to remove "vanity from the picture."

Florence Pugh, who stars in the upcoming Christopher Nolan film "Oppenheimer," turned heads on the red carpet at the Met Gala in May 2023 when she debuted a newly shaved buzz cut.

She opened up about the decision to cut off her hair in a new interview with the Radio Times, the Daily Mail reported.

"I purposefully chose to look like that. I wanted vanity out of the picture," Pugh said. "Whenever I've not needed to be glam or have a full face of makeup, I fight to keep it that way. It helps the audience. Vanity is gone. The only thing that people can look at then is your raw face."

Pugh added that she finds it much easier to act when she's not hindered by makeup — or traditional beauty standards in general.

"I'm less of a sparkly thing on screen," she said. "I feel like I'm allowed to do ugly faces, like it's more acceptable."

This isn't the first time Pugh has made headlines for her bold style choices

In July 2022, Pugh wore an almost entirely sheer pink dress to a fashion event, and she later responded to people who criticized her look.

"Why are you so scared of breasts? Small? Large? Left? Right? Only one? Maybe none? What. Is. So. Terrifying," she wrote on Instagram. "It isn't the first time and certainly won't be the last time a woman will hear what's wrong with her body by a crowd of strangers, what's worrying is just how vulgar some of you men can be," Pugh added.

She was not deterred from wearing sheer looks — on the contrary, she's worn more and more over the last year, most recently during Paris Fashion Week earlier in July.

Her lavender dress was almost entirely see-through, as well as backless. The Valentino gown also featured a neckline that plunged to her navel.

Pugh has also spoken about the pressures she's faced from Hollywood before.

"All the things that they were trying to change about me — whether it was my weight, my look, the shape of my face, the shape of my eyebrows — that was so not what I wanted to do, or the industry I wanted to work in," she told The Telegraph in October 2022.

As Pugh's star continues to rise, we should expect to see more of her bold looks in the future, though not until the SAG-AFTRA strike is over.