Florence Pugh Leads Marvel’s ‘Thunderbolts’ With Sebastian Stan: Everything to Know So Far About Yelena and Bucky’s Movie
usmagazine.comDon’t worry, darling — Florence Pugh isn’t going anywhere. She’s already booked her next Marvel project with the all-star movie Thunderbolts alongside Sebastian Stan and more familiar faces.The superhero studio confirmed that the Oscar-nominated actress will lead the 2024 movie in September at D23 Expo in Anaheim, California.
Pugh will reprise her role as Yelena Belova, the little sister of Scarlett Johansson‘s Natasha Romanoff and an assassin from Russia’s Black Widow program.“I am so gutted that I’m not there in person to say hi, but I am unbelievably excited to be joining this cast,” Pugh told the audience at D23 in a pre-recorded video.
She was busy on the set of Dune in Europe, but her costars joined the Disney convention.Thunderbolts’ plot is largely unknown, but the Marvel comics team was a Suicide Squad-like group of super villains who teamed up.
The movie has fewer top-level bad guys and leans more into characters who waver between good and bad.Pugh will have the company of her fellow Black Widow stars Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster (an assassin who can mirror anyone’s fighting skills), David Harbour as Red Guardian (Russia’s Captain America knockoff) and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as La Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine (A.K.A.
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