Florence Pugh also complimented “The Wonder” director Sebastián Lelio for giving her the opportunity to actually eat the food while filming. “I think eating on camera is so cool. Especially when you actually get to eat and swallow,” she said. “Because most of the time when you’re shooting things, they’re all like ‘Don’t eat it, don’t touch it,’ you know, ‘This is going to be a long day, make sure you just nibble,'” Pugh explained. Being an actor, it sounds like Pugh is able to tell when another actor is essentially moving their food around the plate in a scene and not actually eating anything.
Asked about a scene in the Marvel TV series “Hawkeye” in which Pugh’s character Yelena Belova chows down on macaroni and cheese for ten minutes straight, Pugh responded that there was no movie magic involved at all. The scene in question was her idea, in fact, and the mac and cheese was real. So was the sriracha on the table. “And so every single take I’m just shoveling in mouthfuls of sriracha,” she said. “I had a fantastic day, it was great. They came and they asked my lunch order. I said ‘Are you kidding?'”