Florence Pugh became a “sassy Karen” as she campaigned to perform a dangerous stunt in ‘Thunderbolts*’.
Florence Pugh in Thunderbolts
The 29-year-old actress – who reprises her ‘Black Widow’ role of Yelena Belova in the upcoming Marvel Studios blockbuster – was warned she’d be unable to jump off Malaysia’s Merdeka 118 tower for insurance purposes but she was determined to make it happen.
Speaking to Fandango, she said: “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.’
“I was like, ‘What the f**k, of course we are. We have to do that!’ “
Florence got in touch directly with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to plead her case for leaping from the 2,227ft structure.
She continued: “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!’”
Ultimately, after her “pushing” to do the stunt, producers agreed and said: “OK, if you want to fall off the second-tallest building in the world, we’ll figure that out for you.”
The ‘Midsommar’ actress doesn’t “mind heights” and quite “enjoys them” but being on top of the Merdeka 118 tower was a “whole different ballgame that was insane.
She added: “The mental control I had to do that day was like, that was its own super power.”
While exact plot details about ‘Thunderbolts*’ – which will also star Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, David Harbour, Lewis Pullman, Hannah John-Kamen and Julia Louis-Dreyfus…
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