I mean, it’s good to have goals and aspirations, right? Seeking to break records and do the impossible is part of the fun of life. And that’s definitely what Florence Pugh had in her head when she filmed the MCU’s Thunderbolts* movie. In fact, she wouldn’t even let the MCU’s lawyers (a fearsome force, we bet) stop her from throwing herself off the world’s second-tallest building while filming the movie. Say that sentence five times fast. Pugh has now shared that during the filming of Thunderbolts*, she went up against insurance risk and no doubt Marvel’s legal team and her own to insist that she complete a totally insane stunt. She even incessantly emailed Kevin Feige to ensure her point came across. Forget leaping off a tall building, that’s true gumption. Here’s what Pugh had to say about her insistence on jumping off the world’s second-tallest building while filming Thunderbolts*.
For the record, the second-tallest building in the world is Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The building is 2,722 feet tall. (Holy!!!) Pugh’s character Yelena was set to jump off the tower in Thunderbolts*, but Pugh wasn’t about to let a stunt double have all the fun. Pugh shares, “I got on all the emails. It was in the script, and then slowly as we got closer and closer to shooting, they said they don’t think it’s going to happen because it’s a crazy insurance ordeal and obviously we’re not going to throw [me] off the second tallest building in the world. I was like what the fuck? Of course we are! We have to do that.”
Obviously! We bet Thunderbolts* Health and Safety absolutely loved this turn of events with Pugh. Pugh continues, “I was being a sassy Karen emailing Kevin [Feige] and saying it’s going to do wonders for the press tour. We have to do this! We’re going to have three women break three different Guinness World Records, and we’ll do this and this. I had to keep on pushing, and then they’re like, ‘Okay, if you want to fall off the second-tallest building, we’ll figure it out for you.’ I don’t mind heights. I quite like them and enjoy them, but that was a whole different ballgame and insane. The mental control I had to do that day was its own super power.”
To put into perspective what this Thunderbolts* stunt was really like, Pugh tells us more about the fallout. “I fell asleep for three hours after I did the stunt because my brain [went down].” Phew! That’s intense. Someone get Pugh up there in the stunt hall of fame with Tom Cruise. She definitely deserves it after this. Good thing the Oscars just opened up a Stunt category too…
Florence Pugh stars in Thunderbolts* alongside Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. This movie features a team of misfits forced to work together to save the world and prove they are more than their past.
Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* releases in theaters on May 2.
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