Florence Pugh Teases New Look for Marvel's Thunderbolts; Behind-the-Scenes Glimpse Revealed
Actress Shares Sneak Peek of Yelena Belova's Combat Suit and Blue Eye-liner for Upcoming Film
In a new behind-the-scenes video, actress Florence Pugh gives fans a sneak peek at her new battle costume and sleek blue eyeliner look for Marvel Studios' next film Thunderbolts. The film, which is directed by Jake Schreier, is scheduled to open in theaters nationwide on May 2, 2025.
Production on Thunderbolts, which will see Pugh reprising her role as assassin Yelena Belova, is presently underway in an Atlanta studio. Pugh's Yelena made her screen debut with Scarlett Johansson as the title heroine in the 2021 movie Black Widow. After then, she returned to Hawkeye onDisney+.
"Hi everyone, how are you all doing? The actress from Dune stated in the video, "I know I've been a little quiet, but that's partly because I was flown out to Atlanta to shoot a movie that I'm not really supposed to talk about."
However, I can covertly show you stuff as long as you keep it a secret from others.I'm able to provide you a preview of the set. They are firing. I'll shut up immediately," she continued.
Pugh is seen wearing a combat suit instead of her black catsuit from the earlier films, along with blue eyeliner. She showed off some of the still-under-construction structures when she entered the site during scene shooting.
Pugh also encountered Jake Schreier, the director of Thunderbolts, who directed Robot and Frank (2012) and Paper Towns (2015). In addition, Schreier has directed multiple episodes of the Emmy-winning Netflix series Beef, the comic drama Minx on HBO Max, and the comedy series Shameless on Showtime.
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Schreier quips to Pugh, "I don't even think you're supposed to be doing this," as the camera cuts to a monitor that displays Yelena aiming a rifle at her opponent. Pugh quips, "Someone is going to come rugby tackle me."
"Villains and antiheroes going on a mission that was supposed to end with their death" is supposedly the central theme of Thunderbolts. The plot's specifics have been kept secret.
In 1997, the Marvel Comics title Thunderbolts made its premiere. The show's original premise is on a group of superheroes that appear to be filling the hole left by the Avengers, who were thought to have died in a major fight. But as the show goes on, it becomes clear that the Thunderbolts are actually a group of villains undercover, headed by the iconic Captain America bad guy Baron Zemo.
Schreier shared the Thunderbolts cast on Instagram on September 11, 2022, following Disney's D23 Expo. "A misfit group at D23 for Thunderbolts." In the caption of the photo with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, Sebastian Stan, and Wyatt Russell, he wrote, "@officialjld @dkharbour @hannahjohnkamen @imsebastianstan (and Wyatt doesn’t do Instagram)."
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In the movie, Sebastian Stan will play Bucky Barnes, also known as Winter Soldier, once more. The cast of the film includes David Harbour in the role of Red Guardian, Harrison Ford as Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Wyatt Russell as John Walker, and Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster. Lewis Pullman, star of Top Gun: Maverick, will make his screen debut in the upcoming MCU film as The Sentry.
The final film in the MCU's Phase Five, Thunderbolts, was written by Beef writer Lee Sung Jin.
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