Florence Pugh, in addition to starring, also served as executive producer on Netflix’s new limited series East of Eden.
Given the stakes and her key involvement, Pugh shared that she was so “nervous” that she didn’t read the public and critical reaction to the show.
“I can’t look at it, I can’t,” she told The Hollywood Reporter, referring to the show’s reception.
“It was too much with this one. The process of making this was so long and it had so many of my sticky fingerprints all over it — I was so nervous to release it because I was just going to be so sad if people didn’t understand it or didn’t like it.”
She continued, “It was so much of my life and so much of me as a performer that I put into it that I just didn’t want to look. So I’m glad I didn’t but apparently people like it!”
Alongside Pugh, Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist starred in the show. At the same time, Zoe Kazan served as writer and co-showrunner.
“It’s very overwhelming,” Kazan said of the show’s success.
“The critics absolutely panned this book, and it found this enormous popular audience, so there’s part of me that believed and knew there was an audience out there for this, but this is a period piece and it’s very specific and from this very literary source.”
“I just feel so lucky and so grateful and relieved that the people who want this are finding it,” she added.
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