Claire Hooper - who taught a young Pugh for "about two or three years" at Cokethorpe School, in Witney, during the early noughties - said the actress "always had star quality". She spoke to the BBC ahead of her former student's latest release, Marvel's Thunderbolts*.

In terrifying scenes, two men wearing balaclavas pulled up on a motorbike and smashed the windows of one of five black Mercedes vans that had transported Florence and her loved ones. The raiders reportedly stole a laptop and mobile phone before fleeing the scene.