If you happen to thought sitting via Marvel’s 5.5-hour Avengers: Doomsday chair reveal stream was a wild experience, simply know—you weren’t alone. It seems that even Florence Pugh and David Harbour have been proper there with us, navigating the chaos, caffeine, and confusion of a unending lineup of director chairs, with names slowly being unveiled for the upcoming Marvel film. And similar to us, they weren’t 100% positive they have been even within the movie.
In a current interview shared by way of Fandango’s official Instagram account, the tremendous solid of the upcoming Thunderbolts* was requested about their reactions to the now-infamous Marvel livestream occasion. The stream revealed your complete solid of Avengers: Doomsday by exhibiting personalised director chairs one after the other all through 5 and a half hours. The host posed the million-dollar query: “What was your response to the Marvel livestream? Do you know by that point that your identify was introduced?” What adopted was gold, as Florence Pugh shared:
Pugh: I imply, I simply couldn’t that it was occurring for therefore lengthy. It was actually lengthy. I used to be like–I went to go make a cup of tea, and I used to be like, “I may put it down for a second.” After which it was nonetheless going. It was wonderful… And such unimaginable names!
Tea? Heck, Pugh may have had a whole dinner and returned earlier than her identify was revealed. David Harbour was much more like the remainder of us, as he shared:
It simply saved occurring and it could cease for some time. And I used to be simply watching, I used to be like, ‘Okay, I get it, Paul Rudd’s on this film. Am I on this film? Am I on this film?’ However yeah I used to be excited to see my identify come up.
The host hilariously requested which quantity Harbour was within the seemingly unending line of star bulletins. He continued:
It was approach in direction of the top. I used to be like– [mimes chewing on his finger nails out of nerves][To Pugh] You have been earlier than me, for positive, I used to be like, ‘Oh no. No.’
Simply to make clear, Harbour’s identify popped up a little bit over two hours into the stream. It’s good to know that even Black Widow and Pink Guardian have been feeling the identical confusion as the remainder of us whereas watching. What began as a giant advertising stunt by Marvel—making us wait virtually six hours for the Doomsday solid announcement—rapidly became an experiment in endurance, hypothesis, and whole chaos.
The dwell stream, which trended for hours, had followers theorizing, memeing, and, in some instances, live-blogging as they waited to see names slowly unveiled on chairs. Whereas the strategy was divisive, it was undeniably efficient: folks have been watching to the bitter finish—together with, as we now know, folks truly within the film.
Avengers: Doomsday is about to hit theaters on Might 1, 2026, and if it contains even half the persona these two convey to a press junket, we’re in for one thing particular. Till then, hold the tea sizzling, and possibly subsequent time, give Florence and David a heads-up, Marvel.
Florence Pugh and David Harbour will be seen subsequent, suited up for the Thunderbolts*, hitting the 2025 film launch schedule on Might 2. Till then, you should definitely take a look at our schedule of upcoming superhero motion pictures coming to a theater close to you.