When cinema audiences meet Florence Pugh’s striking Lady Macbeth later this week they won’t get what they expect.
But it is her role in the low-budget Lady Macbeth that earned her the breakthrough artist’s award at December’s Evening Standard awards.
Seen in 2015 as a schoolgirl in Carol Morley’s highly rated psychological drama The Falling, Pugh’s next step will be as unorthodox as her gun-toting Lady Macbeth.