Florence Pugh convinced she was gonna die every time she filmed Thunderbolts jump scene: Well, you fked it

Thank goodness she didn’t.Florence Pugh was convinced that she was “gonna die” while filming an “insane” jump scene for Marvel’s newest blockbuster.The 29-year-old actress, who has reprised her “Black Widow” role as Yelena Belova for “Thunderbolts*,” opened up about the scary stunt on Thursday, May 1, in this month’s Who What Wear cover story.“The moment I jumped, every time, my brain went, ‘Oh, well, you f–ked it.You’re gonna die,'” Pugh said of jumping off the 2,227-foot Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, which is the second-tallest building in the world.Even more shocking was that Pugh, who has also portrayed Yelena Belova in the Marvel series “Hawkeye” on Disney+, filmed the jump nine times over two days.“I could persuade myself to do that.
I could fall down the mountain,” Pugh explained regarding how she was able to do the stunt nine separate times.“I was like, ‘That’s not a good trick to have.
Oops.'”“I can basically pretend to myself not to listen to my instincts,” she added.The “Midsommar” actress also revealed that while she didn’t actually jump 2,227 feet off the Merdeka 118, she did jump around six feet off the building and was dangled by a harness over the Malaysian city before the crew pulled her back up to safety.While Pugh described the feat as “insane” and “mad,” she also admitted that she “loved” doing it.“Loved it,” she told Who What Wear on Thursday.“Mad, though.
Mad.”Elsewhere in her new interview, the “Thunderbolts*” actress opened up about the struggle of accepting herself in the face of Hollywood’s challenging beauty standards – especially when posing for magazine shoots as part of promoting her films.“You don’t know how it works.You feel so self-conscious in the clothes,” the “Don’t Worry Darling” starlet said regarding the beginning of her career.
“You feel like you’re not doing them justice.You’re not doing what a model is going to be ab...