Florence Pugh Says Marvel Let Her “Create Who Yelena Is Now” After She Changed The Character’s Accent & Personality

Florence Pugh Made A Key Change To Yelena So She Wouldn’t Be ‘Boring’ (And I’m So Glad She Did)

Florence Pugh has turned Yelena Belova into one of my favorite underrated Marvel characters and a standout addition to the post-Endgame MCU. She is deadly, deeply weird and capable of making a scene funny without ever seeming like she is trying particularly hard. That dry delivery has become such a big part of the character that I cannot really imagine Yelena without it. Turns out, we came surprisingly close to getting a very different version b…

Florence Pugh says Yelena was originally supposed to have an English accent, but it was "so boring"

Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova has not only become so popular and distinctive in her own right that nobody, either in or out of the MCU, even bothers to identify her as  “Black Widow” anymore—because everybody already knows who “Yelena” is, like Cher—but that Marvel Cinematic Universe head honcho Kevin Feige has been going around lately saying that she’s the “anchor” of Marvel’s latest big cinematic push, Avengers: Doomsday. But would the charact…

Florence Pugh Says Marvel Let Her “Create Who Yelena Is Now” After She Changed The Character’s Accent & Personality

Of all the things that make Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova such a memorable addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Russian accent, bone-dry humor, and slightly strange comic timing are probably near the top of the list. As it turns out, a lot of that personality came directly from Pugh once she realized the version of Yelena she had been given in “Black Widow” wasn’t quite working. Continue reading Florence Pugh Says Marvel Let Her “Creat…

Florence Pugh Thought Her MCU Character Was Boring Until She Made Her Russian

Florence Pugh admitted that she did not fully connect with her character in "Black Widow" until she implemented her Russian accent