Debbie Harry Wants Florence Pugh To Play Her In Biopic

Following Madonna‘s biopic bootcamp, Debbie Harry has an idea for a movie about her own life and musical legacy.

The Blondie frontwoman recently revealed Florence Pugh as the “great actor” she would love to portray her in a biopic, and the Oscar-nominated actress has previously expressed interest in playing Harry.

“If it were somebody like Florence Pugh, I would be in heaven,” Harry told The Sunday Times. “I just think she’s a great actor and she could do anything.”

Pugh has also campaigned to play Harry, when asked what famous figures she would like to portray. “Blondie, just because she’s so cool,” said the actress at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2020, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Although known for her roles in the MCU and films like Midsommar (2019), Don’t Worry Darling (2022) and We Live in Time (2024), Pugh is also a musician, performing cover songs under the name Flossie Rose as a teenager on YouTube.

With Pugh also appearing on her musician brother Toby Sebastian’s 2021 song ‘Midnight‘, as well as writing and performing the songs ‘The Best Part’ and ‘I Hate Myself’ for her 2023 movie A Good Person, perhaps she already has the vocal chops to take on the ‘Call Me’ artist’s biopic.

Harry’s casting nomination comes after she released Face It: A Memoir in 2019, charting her rise in the downtown New York City scene of the 1970s to become a global superstar, as well as how she overcame heroin addiction, bankruptcy and Blondie breaking up.

Back in 2007, Kirsten Dunst said she met with Harry about a biopic that never came to fruition.