Florence Pugh was left shocked after being hit in the face by a flying object that had been thrown from the audience while on stage in Brazil.
The English actress, 27, was in São Paulo, Brazil, for a Comic-Con event promoting Dune: Part Two on a panel on Sunday alongside her co-stars Timothée Chalamet, Austin Butler and Zendaya.
The Oscar-nominated Little Women star was shocked for a moment as an object hit her face at the event as the cast members and director Denis Villeneuve posed for photos before they made their way off the stage.
Pugh’s co-stars checked to see if she was alright in the wake of the scary incident.
The incident marked the latest in a disturbing trend of celebrities being pelted with objects from the crowd.
Someone threw something at Florence Pugh and hit her in the face at #CCXP23 pic.twitter.com/aWB7J0gOyV
— Timmytea (@timmostea) December 3, 2023
On the panel, Ms Pugh said it felt ‘really, really special being’ in the sequel to the hit movie, and appearing alongside her co-stars at the large scale event.
‘I had an amazing time coming in and just hanging around with these people, let alone actually getting to work with them,’ the actress said. ‘Coming in here – the power in this room – is because of that first movie, and we felt that when we went on set every single day.’
On social media, a number of fans of the Black Widow star condemned the dangerous trend.
‘Disgusting,’ one user said. ‘It’s going to get to the point where people do not want to do live events or concerts … if they have to be worried about people throwing stuff at them and getting hurt.’
One fan called the incident ‘totally disrespectful,’ while another asked, ‘Why do people do this?’
One user noted that people ‘had already been warned not to throw anything on stage and they still did it.’
Last week, singer Ari Lennox was upset after a concert-goer launched a bottle in her direction while she was performing Wednesday in Inglewood, California, at the Forum.
The Washington DC native, who was the opener for Rod Wave, was beginning to sing her signature track Pressure when the bottle just missed her.
‘B****, don’t f***ing play with me,’ the R&B singer, whose full name is Courtney Shanade Salter, said in a social media video circulating in the wake of the incident. ‘Stop that s***, I’ll f*** you up.’
The Got Me artist faced a specific section of the arena as she continued her statement: ‘Who did it? Who the f*** did it? I don’t play that, I’m a real-ass b****, and I will f*** your s*** all the way the f*** up.’
The microphone Lennox was using was turned off, and Lennox’s security led her off the stage following the brush with danger, Entertainment Weekly reported.
Earlier this month, Taylor Swift told fans at her show at Estadio River Plate in Buenos Aires not to throw presents at the stage, citing the safety concerns involved.
‘It really freaks me out when stuff gets thrown on the stage,’ Swift said. ‘Because if it’s on the stage then a dancer can trip on it.
‘I love that you brought presents and that is so nice, but just can you please not throw them on the stage. I love you so much.’
This past June, singer Bebe Rexha was injured after she was struck in the face by a phone a concertgoer launched onstage during her show at New York City’s The Rooftop at Pier 17.
Rexha had to receive stitches following the incident, in which a man named Nicolas Malvagna was arrested on assault allegations.
