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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 18 december 2019
2019 Breakthrough Entertainer: Florence Pugh owns the year

By AMANDA LEE MYERS “Yeah, that’s a good
Associated Press pinch,” she said.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — By A more sobering moment
the end of 2019 on big with one of her heroes
screens across the globe, came when she was filming
actress Florence Pugh will 2018’s “King Lear” along-
have body-slammed a fa- side Emma Thompson and
mous wrestler in “Fighting Emily Watson during the
with My Family,” screamed #MeToo movement.
her lungs out after get- “I remember one day I
ting caught up in a violent came into work and every-
Swedish cult in “Midsom- body was talking about it,
mar,” and tromped around and I remember (Thomp-
New England in a Victorian son) gave me a book and
hoop skirt with the three she said, ‘We’re going to
other March sisters in “Little talk about this,’” Pugh said.
Women.” “And I basically had Emily
Each performance has Watson and Emma Thomp-
garnered more critical ac- son talking to me about
claim than the last, and why the industry works and
cemented the 23-year-old why it doesn’t. And I just re-
Pugh as an actress on the member thinking that was
rise. a very special moment for
“It’s so weird,” Pugh recent- This Nov. 20, 2019 photo shows actress Florence Pugh during a portrait session in Los Angeles. someone who was 21 and
ly told The Associated Press, Associated Press was going to be continu-
which named her one of its ing this conversation for the
Breakthrough Entertainers recognized at all. I’ve ac- fanciest Amy March cloth- being in the ring and him rest of my life.”
of 2019. “It’s a weird feel- tually had conversations ing was a definite pinch- basically telling me that to Up next on her bucket list of
ing that everyone’s talking with people where they’ve me moment,” Pugh said. throw a punch, you really roles?
about everything, but it’s a been speaking about a film Another pinch-me mo- need to reel back. And I re- “I’ve always said I wanted
wonderful feeling.” that I was in. And I’m like, ment came when Pugh member just staring at him to do a Western. Like, I re-
Despite having three ma- ‘Oh, really? You thought was playing a wrestler in and then staring at all the ally, really, really want to
jor films come out in a that? Great.’” “Fighting with My Family” seats around me, and I re- be a gritty, greasy toothed,
10-month period in 2019, She does catch herself do- and was about to film a member it going quiet and kind of hairy woman with a
Pugh insists not that much ing double-takes when big fight scene in front of a just kind of internally smiling wax linen skirt that crunch-
is different in her life. She’s she’s working opposite top crowd of 20,000 people at and realizing that Dwayne es when she gets on the
able to fly under the ra- actors, like Meryl Streep in the Staples Center in down- ‘The Rock’ Johnson was horse,” Pugh said. “And I
dar, something she cred- “Little Women.” town Los Angeles. teaching me how to throw would love to play a drug
its, laughingly, to “so many “Meryl was just as power- “And Dwayne Johnson a punch whilst I was waiting lord as well, yeah. So there
hair colors.” ful as you can imagine she came out to go through for 20,000 people to come you go everyone. A West-
“No one knows who I am,” was ... and sharing a car- the warm-up with me,” in and watch me wrestle ern and a drug lord. Sort it
she said. “I don’t really get riage with her wearing the she said. “And I remember for the first time. out.”q
Disney fans will enjoy “Disney’s Land″ by Richard Snow

By JEFF ROWE Snow, examining many of could not have brought freedom. However, Disney
Associated Press the people who helped forth his creations without clearly was the visionary
“Disney’s Land: Walt Dis- Disney on his passage from Roy’s business acumen.” and his staffers learned to
ney and the Invention of idea to game-changing The book suggests lessons read the arched eyebrow
the Amusement Park that park. that extend to today: Pas- (disapproval) and to live
Changed the World,” One such character is Buzz sion for an idea and a plan with stingy praise, seem-
Scribner, by Richard Snow Price, who completed are important, but so is re- ingly incongruous traits
Scores of books have been some early research on search. Disney’s focus and for a man who wanted to
written on Walt Disney and the economic feasibility self-confidence allowed create an idyllic place of
the entertainment colos- of Disney’s park. A jogger, him to push on despite wonder and limitless imag-
sus he created, but author Price had tabulated the family and friends who ination.
Richard Snow finds some distance of every run and told him that an amuse- The last Disneyland em-
new running room, deliv- the costs of socks, shoes ment park was folly. ployee remaining from
ering an elegantly written and other running-related He leveraged everything when Walt ran the place
chronicle focusing on how expenses to get his per- he owned to build an retired years ago but Dis- This cover image released
Disney created and fund- mile running cost. amusement park the likes ney remains nearly mythi- by Scribner shows "Disney’s
ed the famed park that Price was the right man for of which the world had cal figure to employees – Land: Walt Disney and the
bears his name in “Disney’s the Disneyland feasibility never seen. But Disney “cast members” in Disney Invention of the Amusement
Park That Changed the
Land: Walt Disney and the job. not only had research to parlance. World" by Richard Snow.
Invention of the Amuse- Snow also thoroughly bolster his confidence but “Walt would like it” re- Associated Press
ment Park that Changed explores Disney’s older he also had the wisdom mains the highest praise
the World.” brother Roy’s role in the to hire people of superior bestowed on a Disney em- and entrepreneurs will find
Disney knew the impor- creation of Disneyland. skill who shared his vision. ployee. their time well spent in-
tance of characters in “Walt . . . was the creative Perhaps most important, Disney fans will enjoy this side the covers of Snow’s
storytelling and so does one,” he writes. “But he he gave his team creative rendering of the founder book.q