Florence Pugh makes dud films watchable ...Middle East

Florence Pugh – Oscar-nominated actor, quirky fashionista and proprietor of an endearingly scatty and self-effacing Instagram account that notes her “weirdly low voice”, love of “dog snogs” and an inability to sit down in tight (nipple-revealing) dresses – can add holding a Guinness World Record to the myriad reasons she’s adored by many. At the beginning of the new Marvel film Thunderbolts*, in character as cynical and chronically depressed hired assassin Yelena, Pugh jumps – with wires – off the world’s second-tallest building, the 2,227ft Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, in a stunt that has never been done before.

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.”

The key to Pugh’s success is twofold. Firstly, of course, her acting. She exudes a magnetism on screen, an unassailable sense that she is exactly where she should be. In Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019), for which she was Oscar-nominated, she effortlessly rehabilitated Amy, a character often seen as snotty-nosed and undeserving of her romantic ending. She’s an actor who ploughs her own furrow and always seems to be having fun with her career, picking the projects that interest her. Who else would make a literary adaptation, a pro wrestling family comedy (Fighting With My Family) and a bacchanalian folk horror (Midsommar) all within the same year?

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.

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Pugh’s appeal is also undeniably tied up in the attractive whiff of “I’m just like you but I don’t care at all what you think” she gives off. You don’t need to seem likeable or down-to-earth to be successful in Hollywood, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. As paparazzi swarmed the premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival asking questions about Don’t Worry, Darling infights, Pugh eschewed the press conference, sashayed down the pavement wearing purple Valentino shorts and nonchalantly sipping a Aperol Spritz. She’s the type of person who posts pictures of herself getting her septum pierced and then admits that she fainted getting it done. It’s worth noting, too, that Pugh quietly but adamantly defended her relationship with Braff and its 21-year age-gap, without ever really getting defensive with the press. She treads a very careful path of letting people in and not biting the hand that feeds her.

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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