Florence Pugh is only 29, but she's already had an incredible career. Following breakout roles in Fighting with My Family and Midsommar, the British actress entered the blockbuster realm with 2020's Black Widow and, as Yelena Belova, established herself as a firm fan-favourite among MCU fans.
However, there's one project that Pugh deeply regrets. Released in 2018, Malevolent is a British supernatural horror film directed by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson and based on Eva Konstantopoulos' novel, Hush.
Pugh played a scam artist who, alongside her brother, fakes paranormal encounters. However, things go wrong for them, and they get more than they bargained for when they're enlisted by Mrs Greene, who calls them about ghost girls "screaming" in her house. Malevolent has 54% on Rotten Tomatoes and a dire 18% on the fan-generated "Popcornmeter."
In an interview with Louis Theroux, Pugh looked back on Malevolent in an extremely negative light, singling it out as the one movie she regrets more than any other.
"It’s probably the one movie that I wish I never did," she confessed. "I think everybody has one of those movies. I think it was just a movie that I did when I was younger, and I needed money. And I was like, 'Well, obviously this is great.' And then I got there, and it wasn’t great."
Pugh didn't elaborate on what was so bad about the experience, but fortunately for her, Malevolent is one of those Netflix-exclusive movies that's vanished into the streaming abyss. For what it's worth, Johannesson hasn't directed another feature since, though he did helm documentaries, King of the Butterflies and Self-Defence.
Elsewhere in the interview, Pugh opened up on her Avengers: Doomsday experience. "The other day, I was on set with the most incredible cast, and we’re all dressed in our superhero costumes, and we’re all playing," the actress revealed. "Like, just playing as if we’re saving the world. It’s just such a unique thing to do."
As the leader of the New Avengers alongside Bucky Barnes, Yelena Belova is expected to play a pivotal role in Avengers: Doomsday. Leaked concept art has also suggested that Yelena will be part of Doctor Doom's court when he reshapes the Multiverse into "Battleworld" in Avengers: Secret Wars.
2026 promises to be an exciting year for Pugh. She'll return as Yelena Belova in Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday, and plays Princess Irulan in Dune: Part Three (the latter two are both currently scheduled to open on December 18).
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