Florence Pugh opened up about the online criticism she often finds herself the focus of, calling the internet “a very mean place.” “It’s so hard,” Florence, 28, said in the October issue of British Vogue.

Florence Pugh said the backlash towards her and ex Zach Braff’s relationship over their 21-year age gap took a “toll.”

She said that in her acting also she always wants to be real and authentic. "I feel like it’s my duty to play human and ugly, to translate what looks real and what feels painful, whether that’s an ugly cry or a face that doesn’t settle or a stomach that sits when you’re naked.

Florence Pugh can get disheartened by the flurry of “nasty” comments about her weight. “It’s so hard. [The internet’s] a very mean place,” Pugh, 28, told British Vogue in a profile published on Wednesday 18.