Florence Pugh was decided to carry out a harmful stunt for Thunderbolts* and mentioned she became “a sassy Karen” to make it occur.
While filming the Marvel Studios film, Pugh recalled the lengths she went by means of to observe the script and soar off the Merdeka 118 tower in Malaysia.
“It was in the script, and then slowly as we got closer and closer to shooting, they were like, ‘Yeah, we don’t think it’s gonna happen, it’s just gonna be a crazy insurance ordeal, and obviously we’re not going to throw FP off the second-tallest building in the world,’” Pugh mentioned in an interview with Fandango.
The constructing is 2,227 ft tall and is the second-tallest construction on the planet, solely behind the Burj Khalifa. Determined to do it, Pugh contacted Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to make her request.
“I was like, ‘What the f**k, of course we are. We have to do that!’” she mentioned. “So I was being a sassy Karen just emailing Kevin and being like, ‘Kevin, this is going to do wonders for the press tour, we have to do this!’”
After “pushing” to make it occur, producers let her do the stunt and advised her, “Ok, if you want to fall off the second-tallest building in the world, we’ll figure that out for you.”
Florence Pugh in a scene from ‘Thunderbolts’
Marvel Entertainment
Although Pugh mentioned she doesn’t “mind heights” and famous that she “enjoys them,” being on prime of the constructing “was a whole different ballgame that was insane,” including, “The mental control I had to do that day was like, that was its own super power.”
Pugh stars in Thunderbolts*, reprising the position of Yelena Belova, the character she originated in 2021’s Black Widow. The movie, which is about to launch on May 2, additionally stars Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Pugh will once more reprise the Yelena position in Avengers: Doomsday, which is at present filming, and is about to be launched on May 1, 2026.
Watch the complete interview under.