New BLACK WIDOW Set Photos and Video Surface, Florence Pugh's Character Confirmed
Even though Marvel Studios hasn’t officially announced a Black Widow solo movie, it’s currently shooting. Some new photos and a video from the set have surfaced online.
One of the images features a couple of dummy crates and on those crates are written two names… “Natasha” and “Yelena.” This pretty much confirms earlier rumors that Florence Pugh is playing Yelena Belova.
As I previously shared, Yelena Belova became the second Black Widow in Marvel Comics after training with the same people who trained Natasha Romanoff. Yelena trained for a decade in the Red Room, which is an academy for intelligence operatives. While there, Yelena started feeling inferior and inadequate to Romanova who she idolized. The two eventually became at odds over the years, largely due to Yelena believing that she was the real Black Widow.
It makes sense to bring this character into the Black Widow movie, and it will likely set the character up for future MCU films. Now that Natasha is dead, perhaps Yelena will take her place as Black Widow in future Marvel movie adventures.
Check out all of the images and video below of Black Widow and Yelena racing through the streets on a motorcycle. Those are the stunt doubles for the actors.
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DO YALL SEE THAT? THATS THE BLACK WIDOW MOVIE LOGO pic.twitter.com/FfJaC6hzDY
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A new video from the set of the BLACK WIDOW movie shows Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson's stunt double) and another character riding a motorcycle through the streets of Budapest, Hungary!
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Cate Shortland is directing the film, and Scarlett Johansson will reprise her role as Natasha. She will be joined by David Harbour and Rachel Weisz.
What do you think about Florence Pugh taking on the role of Yelena Belova?