Where Was Florence Pugh? The Real Reason She Skipped the 2025 Met Gala

Florence Pugh was nowhere to be found at the 2025 Met Gala tonight, largely due to her ongoing press tour for the newly renamed Marvel film *The New Avengers (formerly *Thunderbolts). She was last seen in New York City on April 30, making the rounds for a series of morning talk show appearances.

She was also spotted in Tribeca and exiting the set of Late Night With Seth Meyers.

The actress’s last appearance at the Met Gala was in 2023, where she wore a white strapless Valentino haute couture gown with an enormous train that trailed down the museum steps. She also debuted a buzzcut, adorned with tall black feathers.

On May 1, Pugh’s cover story with Who What Wear touched on how the expectation of actors and actresses when it comes to red carpet fashion has drastically changed.

“It’s so shit,” Pugh said. “It’s not the same thing. It’s not the same thing at all. I had this conversation recently with a friend. It’s just mental that red carpets are even an expectancy of someone that is not—that’s not even their job. They don’t model. They are good at being on a camera that is this close with that face, and they know how to show how raw their soul is on the flick of a switch. That’s their talent. Their talent isn’t anything beyond that. I mean, it might be, but that’s what they’re getting paid to do, and that’s what we recognize them for. And you’re supposed to be able to be like a runway model, and you’re compared against runway models.”

The star explained how she grew from being “so self-conscious in the clothes” to learning how to dress herself and appear in photo shoots.

“Once you do, you know, shoot after shoot after shoot, you get better, and you get more confidence,” she explained. “You see the pictures, and you see the work, and you’re like, ‘Okay, that looks great. I’m going to now make sure that I know how to argue when a certain piece of clothing isn’t working.’”

When it comes to how she looks on camera in a role, Pugh said, “If I’m disappointed about how something turned out or looked or if someone’s saying something nasty about the dress that I was wearing or if I was a bit too heavy for the dress or a bit too this or that or whatever shit someone wanted to say to me, I have to be like, ‘Babe, this is not even why you’re—this is not your job.’”