Florence Pugh Says Thunderbolts* Is an ‘Open and Honest… Idea’ (Exclusive) – Notice Global Internet

Florence Pugh is “excited” for grouping to wager her convey to the bounteous concealment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Pugh tells PEOPLE at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, July 27, that Marvel Studios created something primary with her movie, Thunderbolts*. 

Acknowledging that the flick “has been eld in the making,” the accolade nominee, 28, says “the think ground it took so daylong to become unitedly is [that] there would be no saucer in doing this programme unless we did it properly.”

Pugh module recapitulate her persona as Yelena Belova, the Slavonic Negroid Widow, prototypal introduced in 2021’s Scarlett Johansson-starring Black Widow. She stars alongside Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes a.k.a. The Winter Soldier, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Wyatt Russell as Evangelist Walker, Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.

“There’d be no saucer in letting these characters become unitedly and having their case arcs unless we actually crosspiece the actuality most how they’d be opinion — and to become and attain this flick in the artefact that we prefabricated it,” Pugh says. 

While strategy info are ease low wraps, the Jake Schreier-directed Thunderbolts* module edifice on a newborn aggroup of superheroes who were every erst thoughtful villains. 

“I see same this is something that we’ve never seen before from Marvel,” says Pugh. “I see same it’s a rattling unstoppered and open and veracious idea. And I’m meet rattling agog for grouping to check it.”

Pointing to her castmates, she adds, “This is ground we can’t kibosh happy together, because we really meet had much a wonderful instance with apiece added and we’ve idolized employed with digit another.”

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The uranologist H show for Marvel’s upcoming listing included never-before-seen Thunderbolts* footage. When asked onstage most the story’s aggroup of regenerate villains, Pugh said, “the experience of watching them is that they don’t endeavor substantially together.”

Harbour, 49, said onstage that reuniting onscreen with Pugh as his character’s girl was a treat. Calling the actress “electric to impact with,” he said, “this instance around, we got to go to every these assorted levels [in their relationship]. There’s heat and humor… but he’s a intense narcissist. And she’s rattling sacred to ending people.”

San Diego Comic-Con runs July 24–28. Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* premieres in U.S. theaters on May 2, 2025.