Florence Pugh has been professionally acting since making her film debut in 2014’s The Falling, but the actress hit breakthrough status five years later when she starred in Fighting with My Family, Midsommar and Little Women. That same year, the actress was cast to play Yelena Belova in Black Widow, a role she’s since reprised in the Disney+ series Hawkeye and will do so again in the upcoming Marvel movie Thunderbolts. In the midst of that though, she recalled how various people in the indie film realm were “pissed off” she decided to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
To be clear, her professional time hasn’t entirely been taken up by Marvel since Black Widow was released both in theaters and to Disney+ subscribers in July 2021, as along with starring opposite Harry Styles in Don’t Worry Darling and lending her voice to Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, she also collected awards attention for The Wonder, which can be viewed with a Netflix subscription. Nevertheless, Pugh shared with Time the backlash she got from indie talent over her decision to appear in the MCU, saying:
