British Actress, Florence Pugh, has released her first set of performances as a singer-songwriter. ”The Best Part” and ”I Hate Myself” are two songs which are included on the soundtrack to her new film, A Good Person, which she stars in as the main character. Her character, Allison, is an aspiring musician whose career is set back as she is involved in a car accident which kills her future sister-in-law. The two songs are slow, sensitive-sounding ballads with a soft leading vocal.

Florence Pugh spoke about the writing process for the two songs saying, “I wrote these songs for my character Allison in the movie to perform, but also as a way to process and digest her mindset and her low headspace.” She continued, ‘‘It was unbelievably helpful and hard; I wanted a song to reflect the self-hatred she had for herself in a way that the audience can truly understand.”

In a recent interview with Digital Spy, Florence Pugh discussed writing the music for the soundtrack saying, “I wrote one song when I read the script, just to process how this person could feel this, how you’d feel, what you would think about yourself. I think it was just so important that those songs were a discovery for her. They were something that she could finally admit to herself when she was in rehab, so everything about that was just so sweet and tender.”

She continued “I was able to record them away from the character and not on a squeaky piano in a rehab centre and not playing Allison, which was also great. So I feel like I’ve been able to write them for her and then perform them as her, and then perform them as me, which is rare.”

The score for the film was written by Bryce Dessner, who is a member of rock band The National and is well known for writing scores to films, such as C’mon C’mon and The Revenant. The soundtrack also features music from The Velvet Underground and Fenne Lily.

A Good Person was written and directed by Florence Pugh’s ex-partner Zach Braff and co-stars Morgan Freeman. Florence Pugh is also credited as a producer for the film. Pugh recently starred in the film, Dont Worry Darling, alongside British pop icon Harry Styles. The film gained a lot of attention and the two were highly praised for their performances in the film. Florence Pugh is set to star in some of Hollywood’s high profile film projects over the next year, including Marvel’s Thunderbolt, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and the sequel to the remake of Dune.

A Good Person was released in cinemas on March 24 and will be available to watch on Sky Cinema from April 28.