It’s fitting really. An enjoyably low-key superhero film, Thunderbolts* relies on Pugh to carry it as it jumps off the deep end into a new Marvel universe more interested in mental health vulnerabilities than physical prowess. A stunt plummeting to Earth is also a perfect reminder of where this extraordinarily talented actor began, stealing the show 11 years ago in Carol Morley’s The Falling, a film about an episode of mass fainting in a 1960s girls school, where girls tormented by their burgeoning sexuality start dropping to the floor one by one. Eighteen-year-old Pugh arrived on set somehow fully formed, a newcomer with so much charisma and maturity that – no small feat – she stole the show from the film’s lead, Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams. Carol Morley told Harper’s Bazaar: “I will always look back with great fondness at the electricity in the room when [Pugh] first auditioned, knowing with absolute certainty that we had discovered a star.”
Pugh in Thunderbolts* (Photo: Disney-Marvel Studios via AP)The truth is that Pugh has also made plenty of duds alongside the successes, but she makes them bearable. A Good Person, the 2023 grief-fest she made with her boyfriend of three years Zach Braff was an insipid, sugary mess, but Pugh was the best thing in it. In 2022, she starred in Don’t Worry, Darling, the bloated psychological thriller better known for its supposed on-set conflict (between Pugh, director Olivia Wilde and star and Wilde’s boyfriend Harry Styles) than its artistic merits. But Pugh’s performance was solid, carrying you through the narrative chaos and anchoring a plot that was otherwise incoherent.
Pugh with Harry Styles in Don’t Worry, Darling (Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures) square FILM If you love dogs, you'll need three hankies for The Friend
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Pugh is the ideal star for Thunderbolts*, which actively champions underdogs and relies heavily on her charm on and off screen. She is tied into another Avengers film next; it will be interesting to see whether this loveable, goofy persona can survive the exposure of the Marvel machine.
Thunderbolts* is in cinemas from 1 May
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