Florence Pugh understands that “Thunderbolts*” is special. The actress recalls her role as Yelena Belova in the Anti-Hero movie, which also costs Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, David Harbor and Hannah John-Kam. The film has strong themes about mental health and depression, something that Pugh described as “a huge deal.”
“Oh my God, it’s massive,” she told Entertainment Weekly In an interview published Saturday. “It’s a huge deal. It’s a huge deal that to The theme was done with a Marvel budget, and they cared enough to make it the main event. And that’s so important, so Important for everyone right now. “
Pugh added that she believes in her Marvel debut, the 2021 movie “Black Widow”, touched on the same topics. “It was the story of these girls and the women and the control they were put under, which really made me want to be part of that story,” she explained.
“And I was like, ‘Whoa, lots of girls will go and watch this movie and they will be educated and inspired, and it’s so cool.’ And I feel the same with this.
The film’s director Jake Schreier, who produced and directed the first season of “beef”, told the outlet that he intentionally intended to make another type of Marvel film.
“These themes are no longer niche; that we all struggle with this and that they were universal ideas,” Schreier said. “And although it felt scary for a big Netflix show or a Marvel movie to touch it, the audience is out there, and these are not things that we shoot away so much. They are things that everyone confronts.”
Read the interview with Pugh and Schreir on Entertainment Weekly.
