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As far as years go, Florence Pugh is having her best one yet.

In just the first half of 2019, the fresh-faced actress scored a breakout part in Dwayne Johnson’s Fighting With My Family, booked a role opposite Scarlett Johansson in Marvel’s Black Widow prequel and snagged the bratty younger sister character Amy in Greta Gerwig’s remake of Little Women, which also stars Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet, Emma Watson and Meryl Streep.

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Add to that this week’s Midsommar, director Ari Aster’s highly anticipated follow-up to last year’s horror smash, Hereditary, and one thing is certain: Pugh is a star ascending.

“I think what’s so funny is when you’re in it, you’re constantly looking forward to the next thing. You rarely stop and have a look around to see who’s got you there and how you got where you are,” Pugh says in a phone interview.

In Midsommar, Pugh and Jack Reynor (Transformers: Age of Extinction) play a couple, Dani and Christian, whose relationship is on the rocks. In order to help salvage their bond, the pair head to Sweden with some friends for a blissful vacation that turns into a nightmare when they stumble upon a cultish commune. Horrors, as Aster aptly put it, “ensue.”