Florence Pugh: “Kevin Feige said to me: ‘I hope you don’t have dizziness!'”
The actress tells us behind the scenes of her parachute jump in Thunderbolts*, and her reunion with the character of Yelena Belova.
In the first scene of Thunderbolts*the new Marvel in theaters this week, Florence Pugh, alias the Black Widow Yelena Belova, jumps from one of the highest skyscrapers in the world (La Tour Merdeka, in Kuala Lumpur, 680 meters high), for an intro scene that cuts the breath and may make Tom Cruise want to offer the actress Doctor March’s girls and Midsommar to join the lines of the team Mission: Impossible. In the meantime, the actress delivers to First Some secrets of manufacturing this new chapter of the MCU where she finds the character she had already embodied in Black Widow and the series Hawkeye.
Florence Pugh: “When I read the script for Thunderbolts*I found that it was really strong to start the film with this intro scene where Yelena throws herself into the void. With the use of the voiceover, it promised a really dark and impressive. Then, while the shooting of the film had started, the scene disappeared from the script! People at Disney had manifested themselves to make the team understand that it was out of the question that the headliner of the film is throwing up from the top of a building! I was disgusted, because I still remembered the feeling of excitement I had had when reading the scene. This is where Jake (Schreier), the director, told me that if I really wanted this scene to return to the film, it had to come from me. For anyone else, the responsibility was too large, in case it turns badly … So I decided to insist with the competent authorities, I sent emails to which of law, I did not drop anything. And I was sufficiently cheeky and insistent for a fine day, I end up receiving an email from Kevin (Feige, President of Marvel Studios) saying: “Well, I hope you are not dizziness” (Laughs) Afterwards, it was necessary to design the scene, the stuntman’s team got to work and they did everything to make the result spectacular on the screen. And that I don’t die. “
Prepare for the role
“We were lucky to be able to repeat for two weeks upstream of filming, which is rare on this kind of big productions. We really wanted to bring out humanity and the pain of the characters and, for that, we had to find the right way to say things. Just words. It is all the more important to succeed in making your replicas when we play, like me, with an accent. The scene where David Harbour and I are confused.
Our critic of Thunderbolts*
Come back to Marvel
“Return to the Marvel universe is a great honor for me. It is wonderful to know that Marvel officials as much as the fans wanted me to come back. I do not take it lightly, but on the contrary as a great responsibility. The character of Yelena was already adored by many people before I sea, and if they are happy that I come back, that means that I liked it. And colorful.
Thunderbolts*by Jake Schreier, with Florence Pugh, David Harbor, Lewis Pullman … Currently at the cinema.
