# The 2015 sliding doors moment that saved Florence Pugh’s career: “I think it’s so interesting”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-2015-sliding-doors-moment-that-saved-florence-pughs-career-i-think-its-so-interesting/
- Published: 2026-10-25T12:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-25T13:11:07+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-lost-2015-role-that-would-have-changed-florence-pugh-career/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- *Studio City* was not picked up by Fox.
- Pugh says she may have missed *Lady Macbeth* if it had been.
- The film helped lead to her breakthrough roles and Oscar nomination.

## Summary

Florence Pugh says her career could have taken a very different path if the 2015 Fox pilot *Studio City*, in which she had a role, had become a series. The pilot was not picked up, leaving her free to take *Lady Macbeth*, the film that helped establish her as a leading actor.

Pugh said she might have become “a completely different actor” and missed *Lady Macbeth* had the series gone ahead. The film won her the best actress prize at the British Independent Film Awards and drew attention from director Park Chan-wook. That exposure preceded a prolific 2019, when she starred in *Fighting with My Family* and *Midsommar*, and received an Oscar nomination for *Little Women*.

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