Florence Pugh Says She “Really Pissed off” the Indie Film Community by Joining Marvel

Florence Pugh defended her decision to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a new interview after alleging she “really pissed off” some folks in the indie film community with her choice to go the superhero route.

“So many people in the indie film world were really pissed off at me,” Pugh told Time. “They were like, ‘Great, now she’s gone forever.’ And I’m like, no, I’m working as hard as I used to work. I’ve always done back-to-back movies. It’s just people are watching them now. You just have to be a bit more organized with your schedule.”

Pugh joined the MCU in 2021’s Black Widow as Yelena Belova, Black Widow’s (Scarlett Johansson) sister. She is slated to return for the anti-hero team-up Thunderbolts, which Time reports is scheduled to begin shooting this summer.

Pugh also spoke on this back in March, when she told Total Film that people in the “indie-film world” told her she “was never going to go back to small movies again.”

“I think there’s beauty in all types of those films. There’s beauty in the massive, epic storylines like Dune, like Marvel, like even Oppenheimer that I did. They’re amazing, mega movies,” she said. “And then there’s also beauty in all these little ones that not everyone is going to see, but are going to affect the right person at the right time.”

Pugh maintained, “I’ve never, ever only thought that I was going to just do one type of movie. I’ve always known that I want to dabble in all areas.” 

The actress has danced across genres throughout her short career, leaving behind notable performances in historical dramas, family comedies and horrors. She may be set to appear in Marvel’s Thunderbolts, but she also recently appeared in Zach Braff‘s indie film A Good Person.

Despite everything she already has on her plate, Pugh also revealed that a cooking show may be in her future. “Conversations are happening,” she teased to Time.

During quarantine, Pugh’s Instagram became home to an informal cooking series called Cooking With Flo that showed the actress cooking and drinking from her home kitchen.

“If I were to make something, I wouldn’t want it to be polished or clean or fussy,” she said.