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Florence Pugh commands carpet in black ruffled Rodarte at East of Eden screening

At a BAFTA screening ahead of Netflix’s October 1 launch, Florence Pugh arrived in a dramatic black gown and highlighted her role as Cathy Ames in the seven-part Steinbeck adaptation. She attended after previously speaking about difficulties on the Don’t Worry Darling set.

Florence Pugh commands the carpet in a dramatic black ruffled gown for East of Eden screening after speaking out on 'difficulties' with Olivia Wilde on Don't Worry Darling set

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Florence Pugh attended a BAFTA screening for East of Eden in a black ruffled Rodarte gown with a ruby Bulgari necklace.

She plays Cathy Ames, a manipulative figure who rejects the era’s expectations by abandoning marriage and motherhood to work in a brothel.

East of Eden is a seven-part Netflix adaptation set in early 20th-century Salinas Valley, released October 1.

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  • and how she showered him with gifts right under lawyer husband's nose 'I'd rather be tortured than go back':
  • Set in the farmlands of California 's Salinas Valley in the early 20th century, East of Eden follows successive generations of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, whose lives become deeply intertwined.
  • Florence takes on the role of Cathy, a deeply manipulative figure who shuns the expectations of women at the time by rejecting her role as a wife and mother to flee her husband and begin work in a brothel.
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