![]() With the job that I do, it’s so important to have people who are gonna say, ‘Hey, I know you didn’t mean it, but you were being a bit of a muppet.’ ” “The best sign of a good person is the ability to laugh at yourself. “My siblings are just as big in my life as my parents,” Pugh tells me. (Mole, 19, is interested in costume design.) It was a loud, boisterous, love-filled house-the children spread out over 18 years, but not so distant that it stopped them from teasing one another. Arabella (now an actor and voice coach) was the first child to be born, then Sebastian (actor and musician), then Florence, who would eventually be followed by Rafaela, or Mole, as the family called her because of the way her hands crept over the covers when she was sleeping-“like a little mole,” Pugh tells me. Her father met her mother in one of these classes, and the two settled down in Oxfordshire, where he established a small empire of eateries-an eclectic range of establishments, pulling from Mexican, Moroccan, Spanish, and other influences. Her father owned (and owns) restaurants, while her mother was a classically trained ballet dancer who became an aerobics instructor, traveling around England teaching classes in her thong leotard and Lycra tights. Pugh grew up in a house of artists, even if its occupants hadn’t yet officially declared it their profession. ![]() She tells Yukako that she is ready to remove her creation from the loom, and the owner comes over to inspect her weaving: “It’s like graphic design,” Yukako exclaims, “you are like an artist.” “I was trying to think of what I like best in bougie pillows, and it’s all the random bits,” she says, pointing at the seemingly errant but artfully arranged threads. You can accept your mistake.”īut Pugh is as at ease with the bobbin as she was in the kitchen, and a length of pink-and-pale-blue cloth that looks like a Southwestern sunset, segmented with strands of sequins and strips of braided felt, quickly issues from her loom. Yukako ushers us to the looms she has set up and shows us how to thread the yarn back and forth, moving our feet-“like walking”-on the pedals. “I thought you were gonna say two, three weeks!” Pugh exclaims. True New Yorkers, the girls don’t acknowledge if the woman taking a genuine interest in their work reminds them of a Marvel superhero or if they recognize her from the Don’t Worry Darling posters that have covered buses and subway stations for months. The other has made a jewel-toned lumbar pillow that she proudly holds in front of her. The whole dojo has the feel of a hushed and brightly lit art gallery, with a wall of windows facing a street that is currently being whipped by the rain. ![]() Against the whitewashed wall there are hundreds of spools of yarn, a rainbow of silken and woolen threads. “They have been here for hours,” Yukako says with amused apology-it’s a school holiday and the girls have settled in for the day a grayscale creation spills from one of their looms onto the pale wood floor. If the cooking demo films through lunch, she’ll make sure the entire room gets a taste of what she’s making. Give her a cocktail to make and she will fix you one too. Perhaps it’s more precise to say she is the kind of person who exudes a let’s-go gameness. Pugh at 26 is the kind of actor-thrillingly talented, coming off a series of stunning performances, and with compelling projects ahead of her-who is not just supremely comfortable in her skin, but also charmingly game. This is a woman at home in a kitchen, even one illuminated by set lights and framed by a boom mic. A rogue cherry tomato rolls off the cutting board she leans over the counter and spears it with the tip of her knife. The flat of the carving knife descends on a clove of garlic it doesn’t stand a chance. ![]() She has made sure to cut up the baguette before she gets started on the drinks (not her preferred sequencing) so that the slices have a chance to toast in the oven. She is dressed a little absurdly, and very formally, for a kitchen, in a clinging vermilion Alexander McQueen dress and heels-an ensemble she has put on for the sake of a Vogue video crew that is having her demonstrate some of her favorite recipes: a vodka martini with a twist in a chilled glass and a cherry tomato crostini with lots of garlic and a bit of chopped chile pepper. “D oes anyone else want one?” Florence Pugh calls out from behind the kitchen island where she has been mixing martinis.
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