Oscar nominee has teased one of her most dangerous stunts in Marvel Studios‘ highly-anticipated movie, which already wrapped up its production over a month ago.
When asked about the most massive stunt she had done for Thunderbolts* during a brief interview at the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con, Pugh teased that fans will get to see her jump off the second tallest building in the world. The said building is the Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which stands at a height of 2,227 ft.
Florence Pugh reveals that she jumped off the second tallest building in the world in Marvel's «Thunderbolts.» https://t.co/ZINasRnzil pic.twitter.com/isvfMeaWQ3
The upcoming Thunderbolts* movie marks Pugh’s third appearance as Yelena Belova in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, after three years since being introduced as Natasha’s adoptive younger sister in the Scarlett Johansson-led Black Widow movie. Afterward, she had a recurring appearance in Disney+’s Hawkeye series, where she hoped to avenge her sister’s death in Avengers: Endgame by trying to kill Jeremy Renner’s titular Avenger.
The film is directed by Jake Schreier from a screenplay written by Lee Sung Jin, based on the first draft by Eric Pearson. Schreier and Jin previously worked together in Netflix’s Beef series. The film also stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep) as Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, David Harbour (Stranger Things) as Red Guardian, Sebastian Stan (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier, Wyatt Russell (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters) as John Walker/ US Agent, Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man & The Wasp) as Ava Starr/Ghost, Olga Kurylenko (Hitman) as Taskmaster, Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick) as Sentry, Geraldine Viswanathan (Miracle Workers). and more.
The film will center around a team of mostly supervillains and antiheroes. In a previous interview, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige assured fans that the asterisk at the end of the project title has a purpose, which will be revealed
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