Florence Pugh’s latest starring role is in Yungblud’s music video for his new track “Zombie.”
Released Friday, the Oscar-nominated actor leads the video as a medical professional struggling with the demands of her personal and professional life. Throughout, Yungblud sings about masking away pain and slipping into a zombie-like state while Pugh’s performance delivers his lyrics.
“Oh, I know that I can’t live without you / But this world will keep turning if you do / Would you even want me looking like a zombie? / Would you even want me, want me, want me?” he sings throughout the track.
By the end of the video, a pair of angel wings appear on Pugh’s shoulders.
Of the track, Yunblud explained that “Zombie” was “written initially about my grandmother going through serious injury and trauma, leading her to become a different person to who she was before.”
“It’s about the feeling of deterioration and ugliness; shutting out the world and the people we love out of the fear of becoming a burden or an embarrassment,” he said in a statement. “We all want someone or something to comfort us no matter how we are right now or who we become in the future. But it’s fucking scary.”
Pugh notably recently starred in the MCU’s latest installment, Thunderbolts*, where she led an “unconventional team of antiheroes” alongside Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, Olga Kurylenko, Wyatt Russell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
The music video was directed by Charlie Sarsfield and produced by Untold Studios as part of the English singer’s forthcoming album, Idols. “Zombie” is notably the third release from the record, following “Lovesick Lullaby” and “Hello Heaven, Hello.”
Idols arrives June 20 via Locomotion/Capitol Records. Yungblud heads out on his Idols World Tour this summer, commencing in Los Angeles on August 23.
