The actress, whose dad Clinton Pugh is a restaurateur in the city, appeared at the London Film Festival earlier this month as a cardboard cut-out.
Andrew Garfield, her co-star in the movie We Live In Time, took the cut-out of Ms Pugh to the event while she was away on the set for another film.
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The British actress portrays a young chef who is diagnosed with cancer in We Live In Time, while Mr Garfield plays her partner and the father of the couple’s three-year-old daughter.
Mr Garfield walked along the red carpet with Ms Pugh’s cut-out at London’s Royal Festival Hall as the fashion press snapped away with their cameras.
(Image: Ian West/PA) This movie was shot last spring, and it created headlines for the Oxford actress whose shaved head at the 2023 Met Gala was in connection with the film.
Ms Pugh, who was was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for Little Women, has also taken centre stage in a trailer for the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Thunderbolts.
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She will return to playing Yelena Belova in the 2025 film about antiheroes following her appearances in Black Widow and Hawkeye as the Russian assassin character.
She will star alongside other reformed supervillains including Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes, played by Sebastian Stan, Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, played by David Harbour, and Olga Kurylenko as Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster.
The teaser sees Yelena visiting Alexei, who is a father-figure to her, and Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, played by Scarlett Johansson, at home in his run-down apartment where she asks if he is “fulfilled”.
When questioned why she is wondering, Yelena responds saying: “There’s something wrong with me, an emptiness, I’m just drifting and I don’t have purpose.”
She then arrives in an empty building, filled with what looks like office equipment.
The film, directed by Jake Schreier, is set for a May 2025 release.
Ms Pugh worked at her family’s restaurants as a teenager in Oxford.
Her father has run several establishments in the city over the years including The Lemon Tree, Cafe Tarifa and Kazbar.
Earlier this month, Mr Pugh announced he is moving on from Cowley Road’s Cafe Coco eatery after it was sold in April.
Ms Pugh, who has starred in the 2023 Oppenheimer movie alongside Cillian Murphy, previously said her first job was in the Oxford restaurants.
“I think it’s such a massive part of growing up when you are doing a job as a waiter or washing dishes or making coffees,” Ms Pugh said at the time.