Florence Pugh Defends Her Choice To Join The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Before Florence Pugh jumped into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Yelena Belova, she was doing a lot of smaller character-driven low-budget films like Fighting with My Family, Midsommar, and Little Women. When she decided to have some fun and play in the Marvel sandbox, she was apparently told by a lot of people that she would never go back to making indie films again.

During a recent interview with GamesRadar, she talked about this and defended her choice to be a Marvel movie star. She said:

"When I first signed onto Marvel, lots of people from the indie-film world were all telling me that I was never going to go back to small movies again, and it always kind of wound me up because I think there’s beauty in all types of those films. There’s beauty in the massive, epic storylines like Dune, like Marvel, like even Oppenheimer that I did. They’re amazing, mega movies. And then there’s also beauty in all these little ones that not everyone is going to see, but are going to affect the right person at the right time. I’ve never, ever only thought that I was going to just do one type of movie. I’ve always known that I want to dabble in all areas.

She is absolutely right, and it’s not stopping her from starring in smaller film projects. In fact, her next film is an indie movie from Zach Braff. It’s titled A Good Person, and it was written specifically for her. In the film, she plays Allison, “a young woman navigating grief after an unimaginable tragedy.” When she joins these films, being in the Marvel limelight helps bring the attention to them that they normally wouldn’t have. She went on to say that she would also like to direct one day:

"It’s also good for my brain to dabble in all areas. I would love to direct. I know how important it is to have a good dialogue with your director. I know how crucial it is. And I just feel like you can’t just throw yourself at it, and hope that the spaghetti sticks. I need to learn a bit more, and understand why things go where [they do], and really watch all these people that I have been watching.

"But I personally would feel too terrified that I’d accidentally say the wrong thing, or accidentally screw up someone’s day because I said, 'Maybe not that way.' I don’t know. All the things that I have personally felt before while acting. I think I’ll probably just need a few more years of practicing the knack of leading a ship into a storm, and pretending like everything’s fine. But I would love to one day."

I’m sure that one day the right opportunity will present itself with the right project. She’s a talented actress, and it would be interesting to see what she would do as a director. In the end, getting involved with Marvel Studios is only going to help her on her journey, not hinder it.