The Marvel Cinematic Universe consistently places out new content material, each in theaters and streaming with a Disney+ subscription. The most recent massive display screen journey was Jake Schreier’s Thunderbolts*, which introduced collectively a scrappy crew of antiheroes. The Thunderbolts* forged, particularly Florence Pugh, shared the terrifying story of filming on high of a scorpion’s nest. And sure I am formally freaked out.
Followers who spent years watching the Marvel films so as have been hyped to see Thunderbolts*, which was a crossover for a variety of tasks. However the film was very targeted on Yelena’s expertise, with Oscar nominee Florence Pugh delivering a killer efficiency. In a clip from EW’s Instagram, she revealed that there was some sudden hazard from filming within the dessert. As she shared:
Oh my God. We’re within the dessert, mendacity down on the ground doing a scene. And, as we rise up, somebody simply comes and, like, pats my leg. And I am like ‘What is going on on?’ There is a scorpion in your leg.
That is really the factor of nightmares. Whereas Florence Pugh’s record-breaking leap off a constructing is making loads of headlines, that is simply one other instance of how doubtlessly harmful making a film may be. The warmth of filming within the dessert for Thunderbolts* already sounds grueling, even earlier than you add dwell scorpions to the combo.
And there wasn’t only one scorpion concerned, as Pugh and the remainder of the forged recalled being on high of a nest of types when filming that individual sequence. Because the Midsommar icon continued:
The place we have been mendacity down we have been like on a scorpion’s nest. We have been mendacity down, we acquired up, I needed to have umbrellas as a result of it was so sizzling. We’re within the dessert, we’re ready to do the reset. After which we have been gonna get again down on the ground, and somebody got here and pat my leg.
As terrifying as it’s to be mendacity on high of some scorpions, at the very least Pugh did not truly comprehend it was taking place. Ignorance was bliss, as a result of as soon as she and the remainder of the forged knew in regards to the scorpions, they weren’t going to get again to the identical place. As she shared:
Thank God I used to be carrying these fight boots. There was a scorpion on my fight boot climbing up my leg. After which we have been like ‘No means are we mendacity again down!’ They’re like ‘the scorpion’s gone,’ and I am like ‘What in regards to the different ones?!’
Costumes are a key a part of serving to actors rework into their characters, and Yelena’s boots additionally helped shield Pugh from doubtlessly being stung by a scorpion in the course of the dessert.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ face of horror within the above video is precisely how I really feel, and I’ve to imagine I am not the one fan who’s equally freaked out about this flip of occasions. Thank goodness nobody acquired stung, particularly since they’re anticipated to seem in future tasks like Avengers: Doomsday.
Thunderbolts* is in theaters now and Improbable 4: First Steps will observe swimsuit in July twenty fifth as a part of the 2025 film launch checklist. Fortunately we’ll see Yelena and the remainder of the crew in Doomsday subsequent yr.