Florence Pugh is a master of accents, and it turns out they come naturally to her. The actor told POPSUGAR, “I really love accents. I love doing accents.” Pugh has played quite a few American characters, including Amy March in “Little Women” and Allison in his new film “A good person”, but she doesn’t find it particularly difficult. “Funny enough, when I play, it’s really not that difficult,” she explains. Pugh finds it much harder to slip into an accent when she’s with friends and family cracking a quick joke. “I’m always wrong,” she says.

However, during the filming of “A Good Person”, she sometimes slipped into using a word that Americans don’t normally use, and Zach Braff – who wrote and directed the film – pointed this out to him. “He would say, ‘No one would ever say in America.’ I was like, ‘Oh, sorry,'” she recalled with a laugh.

One of the best parts of shooting this movie for Pugh was seeing New Jersey, where Braff grew up and shot his 2004 movie “Garden State.” Pugh and Braff dated for about three years, split in 2022, but they remain good friends. “I loved it. I loved living there,” she says of Jersey. “I loved being a local there.” During filming, she often went for a run with her dog, Billy, and got to see Maplewood’s magnificent architecture for herself. Some of the film’s most pivotal scenes take place at a neighborhood pond that Braff often visited growing up. “I felt like I was entering Zach’s world, Zach’s brain and Allie’s world,” she says.

Part of Pugh’s work that she treasures is the ability to connect with so many other actors, like her “A Good Person” co-star. Morgan FREEMAN. “Every time I work with these legends, like grown-ups, I end up becoming friends with them, which is kind of weird,” she explains. “I didn’t expect to be friends with Scarlett Johansson, but now I am. We text all the time. I didn’t expect to be friends with Morgan Freeman now, but now I am.”

Watch the video above for the rest of our chat with Pugh, including how she approached singing for the film and how she spent the very first salary she got on acting.