Florence Pugh Made Marmalade On Instagram And Now She’s Best Mates With Paddington Bear
The most ambitious cross-over of all time.
Florence Pugh is one of the most talented performers of her generation — and as it turns out, those specialised set of skills extend beyond just acting and into making marmalade, too.
Pugh won the attention of the world last year with the one-two punch of her work in Little Women and Midsommar, the former of which nabbed her a highly coveted Academy Award nomination.
That global domination is set to continue this year with the release of Black Widow, in which she stars, making a neat jump from the indie world to the mainstream. You’ll be hearing about nothing but Pugh for the next decade at least, I promise you.
In the meantime, if you hop over to Pugh’s Instagram, where she posts often, you’ll get to soak up the joy of the actress merely existing in the world. Prior Instagram adventures have included giving a cactus a haircut and speaking out against invasive camera phone filters — but the newest adventure involving marmalade has taken off in a whole different way.
See, yesterday, Pugh took to the app to demonstrate her method for making marmalade, involving lots of sugar and a punnet of beautiful-looking oranges — which the actress at one point called “tomatoes”.
oh to be florence pugh’s girlfriend and cook homemade marmalade with her pic.twitter.com/mpY3u0IeWB
— louisa (@littIew0men) February 24, 2020
Of course, in the pop culture consciousness, marmalade is the domain of one creature only — the adorable Paddington Bear — so within minutes, Twitter users were making jokes about the two celebrities teaming up.
So now that it’s obvious Florence Pugh should be in Paddington 3 we need to decide who she should play. I think: A bakery owner who hires Paddington to make marmalade but soon reveals her evil intentions to steal his recipe and claim it as her own.
— Esther Zuckerman (@ezwrites) February 24, 2020
Florence Pugh making marmalade on instagram//Paddington making marmalade in Paddington 2 parallels pic.twitter.com/Y8grqpP8us
— stephanie (@beforesunset04) February 24, 2020
when florence pugh and paddington make marmalade sandwiches together…then you will realize pic.twitter.com/RNGEOtkK4d
— abby monteil (@abbyemonteil) February 24, 2020
There were so many Pughdington memes going around, in fact, that eventually the bear himself got involved.
If I had made 8 jars of marmalade last night I'd have one for each day of the week and a spare to share with a friend. @Florence_Pugh
— Paddington (@paddingtonbear) February 24, 2020
…And very quickly, Pugh responded.
Paddington, do you want to make sandwiches with me?
You can have a spare jar btw.. https://t.co/frAAgVjPni— Florence Pugh (@Florence_Pugh) February 24, 2020
Truly this is the feel-good story of the year so far.
So just get ready for the release of Paddington 3, now definitely starring one Ms. Florence Pugh.