"It Feels Strange Because It Is": Florence Pugh Breaks Down Showing a Different Side of Yelena in 'Thunderbolts*'

Florence Pughfirst arrived on the scene as Yelena Belova in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Black Widowback in 2021. Now, she's leading the charge in the new film Thunderbolts*. The latest Marvel film, directed by Jake Schreier, puts Yelena front and center with a rag-tag team of anti-heroes that call themselves the "Thunderbolts." But outside of jokes about not having superpowers, the movie is about deeper issues that people go through, and for Yelena, it is a change of pace. Pugh recently spoke with Collider's Perri Nemiroffabout the changes in Yelena.