BLACK WIDOW Recruits FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY Star Florence Pugh As The Second Lead

BLACK WIDOW Recruits FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY Star Florence Pugh As The Second Lead

While Harry Potter star Emma Watson was rumored to be the frontrunner, it appears Fighting With My Family breakout Florence Pugh has landed the highly coveted second lead in Marvel's Black Widow!

By RohanPatel - Mar 18, 2019 04:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Black Widow
Both The Hollywood Reporter and Variety are reporting that Florence Pugh (Fighting With My Family) has landed the highly-coveted second lead role, opposite 4x Golden Globe-nominee Scarlett Johansson, in Marvel's Black Widow.

While details on her exact part are being kept under wraps for now, she will be playing a spy on the same skill level as Natasha Romanoff (Johansson), but won't share her moral compass. 

The long-awaited standalone is said to be an international espionage story, following Natasha as she works in her role as a top-level spy and assassin for the KGB, although it should be noted that it remains unclear whether the film will be a prequel, flashing back to Nat's pre-Avenger days, or a film following the events of next month's highly-anticipated Avengers: Endgame.

Production is slated to begin this June in London with Cate Shortland (Lore) in the director's chair with a screenplay from Jac Shaeffer (The Hustle), who turned in the first draft, and Ned Benson (The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby), who is recently believed to have completed rewrites

According to Variety's Justin Kroll, Pugh had been at the top of Marvel's list since her audition in December, but they still decided to open up their casting search and had been meeting with several actresses over the past several weeks, including 3x Academy Award-nominee Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) and presumably Emma Watson (Harry Potter). However, it appears Pugh beat out both for the part.

Florence Pugh is best known for her breakout role in Fighting with My Family earlier this year and her past credits include The Little Drummer Girl, The Outlaw King, Lady Macbeth, The Commuter, and The Falling. She can be seen next in Ari Aster's Hereditary follow-up Midsommar and Greta Gerwig's Little Woman, where she'll actually star alongside Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, and Meryl Streep.

No release date has been set, but with casting fully underway, either May 1, 2020 or November 6, 2020 would seem like a fairly safe bet. 
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JonC
JonC - 3/18/2019, 4:16 PM
She has a bit of Russian look to her... hope its a great story!
RocknRolla
RocknRolla - 3/18/2019, 4:50 PM
@JonC - just pointing this out, fighting with my family is like the last thing that I would know Florence Pugh from, she's been in a lot of other stuff.
JohnnyTBP
JohnnyTBP - 3/18/2019, 4:17 PM
Good news. Hope we see what happens in Budapest
Solarkalel85
Solarkalel85 - 3/18/2019, 5:06 PM
@JohnnyTBP - if its from black widows point of view it should just be an unrecorded chitauri attack
tvor03
tvor03 - 3/18/2019, 5:29 PM
@Solarkalel85 - why?
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 3/18/2019, 4:17 PM
I think she will end up joining. Let's see what happens.
aflynn
aflynn - 3/18/2019, 4:23 PM
Not many people talking about it but she is also going to be in "Midsommar" the next film from Ari Aster who directed "Hereditary"
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 3/18/2019, 4:25 PM
@CreepyCavill47 - I remember the title of that film being mentioned around last week, it's just that horor isn't within my taste. XD But good for her career!
CaptCoulson
CaptCoulson - 3/18/2019, 4:24 PM
good lord... there are just some of these young actresses, you know like they'd still look like they were birthed by the very garden of eden itself even without a spec of makeup on... Ms Pugh seems to be one. I mean the Fighting With My Family was obviously a nice main, lead role, but something like this will really help her majorly break out.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/18/2019, 4:26 PM
I've only seen her in Fighting With My Family but she was excellent in that.
ElvenKingSlayer
ElvenKingSlayer - 3/18/2019, 11:00 PM
@RorMachine - I've only seen some short movies with the girl she portrays in Figthing With My Family. She was so so. Never watched a fight though.
StarlordsDad
StarlordsDad - 3/18/2019, 4:27 PM
I guess I have to watch fighting with my family now
Repian
Repian - 3/18/2019, 4:28 PM
MUTO123
MUTO123 - 3/18/2019, 4:32 PM
I was gonna just see Us this weekend, but now I might try to squeeze Fighting With My Family in too.
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