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Get ready for chaos, comedy, and a whole lot of Marvel mayhem. The stars of ‘Thunderbolts*’—David Harbour (Alexei Shostakov), Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Valentina Allegra de Fontaine), Hannah John-Kamen (Ava Starr), Wyatt Russell (John Walker), and Geraldine Viswanathan (Mel)—sit down for a hilarious game of "Most Likely To" and reveal what really went down behind the scenes of filming Marvel's upcoming anti-hero team-up.
From on-set injuries (yes, scorpions were involved 😳) to who would crush (and bomb) a stand-up special, forget their lines, or secretly bake for the cast, no one is safe in this laugh-out-loud roundtable. Plus, they dish on where their ‘Thunderbolts*’ characters are now, post-snap, and how this gritty new chapter fits into the MCU.
From on-set injuries (yes, scorpions were involved 😳) to who would crush (and bomb) a stand-up special, forget their lines, or secretly bake for the cast, no one is safe in this laugh-out-loud roundtable. Plus, they dish on where their ‘Thunderbolts*’ characters are now, post-snap, and how this gritty new chapter fits into the MCU.
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00:00Do we know who was, like, snapped of us?
00:03I, uh, dress snappy.
00:05Yes!
00:07Snap! Snap!
00:10Welcome to EW's Around the Table with Thunderbolts!
00:20Most likely to know what's at Crafty.
00:23Oh.
00:24I mean, maybe Florence.
00:25I think that's me.
00:26Yeah, I think it is you.
00:27Well, you put it on my face.
00:29Yeah, I would just put it right there.
00:30Yeah.
00:31Most likely to go full method.
00:35David Harbour.
00:36David Harbour.
00:38That's for you, my friend.
00:39I'm right!
00:41There we go, right there!
00:43I should say, most likely to be made to go full method.
00:46There we go!
00:48Oh!
00:49Most likely to succeed outside of the MCU.
00:52Oh, my gosh.
00:53Oh, my gosh.
00:54I mean, can we give that to Julia Luce, right?
00:56Yeah!
00:57I mean, for sure.
01:00For sure.
01:01I would expect big things from you.
01:03Yeah.
01:04Yeah.
01:05Most likely to bring baked goods to set, Florence Pugh.
01:09Florence Pugh.
01:10Yeah!
01:11Did I bring those?
01:12I think there's going to be a lot for you.
01:13A lot of anything.
01:14Yeah.
01:15Chef Vini.
01:16Trying to think if I brought any baked goods to set.
01:18I brought other things to set.
01:19You brought lots of gifts.
01:20I did.
01:21That is true.
01:22She brought lots and lots of gifts.
01:23She brought me a coffee maker.
01:24Yeah, I did.
01:25Nespresso machine.
01:26And mothering.
01:27A beautiful mug.
01:28Lava lamp?
01:29Lava lamp!
01:30She brought lava lamp.
01:32Most likely to forget lines, but makes it work.
01:36Oh, Sebastian.
01:37Sebastian.
01:38Sebastian.
01:39Sebastian.
01:40He's not here.
01:41For sure.
01:42Most likely to start a podcast.
01:45Ooh.
01:46Ooh.
01:47Lewis, if it was about music.
01:49Oh, yeah.
01:50Yeah.
01:51Yeah, yeah, definitely.
01:52Okay, podcaster Lewis.
01:53Yeah.
01:54Look, that's such a podcast.
01:55A podcast.
01:56That's a podcast.
01:57Okay.
01:58Most likely to do their own stunts.
02:01I think everybody had a go at that.
02:05Everyone knew you had a go at that.
02:07We all.
02:08Put it in the middle.
02:09All of us.
02:10Yeah.
02:11What are you looking at me for?
02:13I was likely not to do that.
02:15Are you joking?
02:16She didn't do that.
02:17No, I did one.
02:18She was in there with me going.
02:19I wasn't there that day.
02:20Can't confirm or deny, was not there that day.
02:23Yeah, I was there.
02:24I got to punch someone.
02:25We were in a stunk of hassles.
02:26I was there next to her in stunts.
02:27Yeah.
02:28I was in handy pee.
02:29She was chopping their throat and everything.
02:30Grabbing them.
02:31A lot of people are making a lot of noise.
02:33It sounds less and less likely to be true, but okay.
02:36I believe you.
02:37Okay, two more.
02:38Who's next?
02:39Most likely to break during a scene.
02:40Probably not.
02:41Yeah.
02:42Why not?
02:43Why not?
02:44Keeping it light.
02:45To break on his own jokes.
02:48That's true.
02:49He enjoys his performance.
02:50That is true.
02:51That is true.
02:52That is true.
02:53The one who enjoys his performance the most.
02:54They enjoy their performance the most.
02:55Oh no.
02:56Most likely to break a prop.
02:57Sebastian broke a few props, didn't he?
02:58Let's give it to Sebastian again.
02:59Yeah, there you go.
03:00He's not here.
03:01He can't defend himself.
03:02He's not looking good for Sebastian.
03:03Yeah.
03:04There you go.
03:05He's not here.
03:06He can't defend himself.
03:07He's not looking good for Sebastian.
03:08Yeah.
03:09There you go.
03:10Superhero superlative.
03:11Sebastian's got them all lined up.
03:12He's the only bad one.
03:13Is that Bucky?
03:14Let's rock.
03:15Which members of the Thunderbolts would you swap weapons or powers with?
03:26Ghost.
03:27Wyatt's helmet.
03:28I want Bucky's arm.
03:29Bucky's arm.
03:30He's good.
03:31I want Florence's muscle power.
03:34Muscle power.
03:36Her dexterity.
03:38Good human muscle power.
03:40Julia to David.
03:42Yes.
03:43You're David, right?
03:44I'm David.
03:45You're making a three-course dinner for Florence.
03:46What's on the menu?
03:47One app, one entree, one dessert.
03:49Oh, my God.
03:50Go.
03:51Go.
03:52Hurry up.
03:53Okay.
03:54I'd start out with a nice bowl of cereal, because I can accomplish that.
03:58I'd go to, like, a grilled cheese sandwich.
04:02Nice.
04:03And then I would end with a nice, like, Fig Newton.
04:08Fantastic.
04:09That's great.
04:10That's great.
04:11This is just based on my capabilities as a kitchen.
04:13I think they should be...
04:14Michelin star dinner.
04:15Michelin star.
04:17Thank you very much.
04:18Was there anything fun in the cereal?
04:19Like raspberries or granola or anything?
04:20Let's move on, shall we?
04:21David to Florence, you're planning a family vacation for us.
04:25Where are we going?
04:26Ooh.
04:27Ooh.
04:28Us as characters, I would, just to see the carnage roll out, I think I'd have to put us on,
04:32like, a really, really low-end cruise.
04:34Ooh.
04:35Ooh.
04:36Ooh.
04:37Oh, man.
04:38And make sure that we have a documentary crew filming the whole things.
04:40Yeah.
04:41Oh.
04:42Red Guardian tanning out by the pool.
04:44All exposed in little briefs.
04:47Then say Red Guardian on the little briefs.
04:49Right, exactly.
04:50Ooh.
04:51Yeah.
04:52It has to be miserable.
04:53It has to be miserable.
04:54Yeah.
04:55It has to be.
04:56Okay.
04:57Okay.
04:58But there's nothing.
04:59Aha!
05:00Okay.
05:02Florence to Julia.
05:03Uh-oh.
05:04Which Thunderbolts character would have the best stand-up special?
05:08Who would bomb?
05:09Um...
05:10Don't even know.
05:11I know this is the bomb one.
05:13You're the bomb.
05:15I knew it.
05:16I would kill.
05:17You would bomb, and then you would kill.
05:20Yeah.
05:21Yeah.
05:22It's the kind of thing where it's so bad for so long, it gets funny.
05:25Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:26That's so true.
05:27Yeah, that's true.
05:28That's my answer.
05:29So who would be good?
05:30Who would be good?
05:31What I just said.
05:32Oh, both.
05:33I'll take it.
05:34I'll take it.
05:35I'll take it.
05:36I'll take it.
05:37Hannah to the group.
05:38Which of your Thunderbolts co-stars has the best sense of humor?
05:42We all have great sense of humor.
05:43Yeah.
05:44That's why it was fun to do the movie.
05:45I think Lewis is pretty hysterical.
05:46He's hilarious.
05:47He's hilarious.
05:48He's not that funny.
05:51Sorry, Julia.
05:52Julia.
05:53Julia.
05:54Yes, Julia.
05:55Which Avenger would you most want to impersonate?
05:58Did I want to impersonate?
05:59Impersonate.
06:00Oh, this is dangerous.
06:01I would say for me, Spider-Man, just because of his pure agility.
06:04Because he's a complete different costume.
06:08Swinging around town.
06:09Swinging around town.
06:10Same.
06:11I'd want to give the Hulk a go.
06:12The Hulk a go.
06:13Just to see what it felt like.
06:16Just to see how green I'd get.
06:19Everyone here has done bad things.
06:22Shadow ops.
06:24Robbing government labs.
06:27Contract kills.
06:29Yeah, so?
06:30So, someone once has gone.
06:32The making of this film has delayed for a long time because of COVID and the strides.
06:38We've been making it for a very long time.
06:41I think Yelena's pretty different.
06:44She's pretty low in the dumps.
06:45Yeah, that's true, actually.
06:46She probably is the one that's most.
06:48Yeah.
06:49A lot of us pick up where we left off.
06:53I mean, certainly for Red Guardian, he sort of picks up where he left off.
06:56I think Walker.
06:57And we play with a lot of the history of these characters in the other movies.
07:02That Walker's, you know, had this tragic sort of public thing happen to him.
07:07Ghost has personal issues.
07:09The Red Guardian has personal issues.
07:11And we sort of play those things.
07:12So, they're all sort of where we left them.
07:16And I guess Yelena has sort of had a transition.
07:19You also are the only character that's been in other Marvel stuff between Black Widow, right?
07:25Yeah, and we kind of teetered on where she was at in that.
07:30But, of course, since then, I think she's definitely had a whole new outlook on life and where she's at and what her purpose is.
07:38So, yeah, she's in a very, very different place.
07:40Do we know who was, like, snapped?
07:42Of us?
07:43Yeah.
07:44What do you mean?
07:45What is it?
07:46It's not snapped.
07:47It wasn't the snap thing that Thanos disappeared.
07:50People disappeared.
07:51People disappeared.
07:52Like, you disappeared, right?
07:53No.
07:54Oh.
07:55I didn't disappear.
07:56No.
07:57I don't think any of it disappeared.
07:58None of us snapped?
07:59No.
08:00I don't think any of us snapped.
08:01Wait, something happened.
08:02Something happened to me in Hawkeye.
08:03There was a snap.
08:04There was something snapping.
08:05I think you snapped.
08:06I think you came back.
08:07I was looking in a mirror and then I came back and everything was changed.
08:09I think you came back.
08:10I think you were snapped.
08:11So, you're right.
08:12I take that back.
08:13I did a bit of snappage.
08:14I think you came back from the snap.
08:15But this picks up way post-
08:17The snap.
08:18The snap.
08:19So, you get it.
08:20At least, like, six months.
08:22And I knew what was going on.
08:25I wasn't snapped.
08:26Because at the end of Ant-Man, they are getting the quantum energy to basically heal me.
08:34And then it comes back and they've been snapped.
08:37So, I wasn't snapped.
08:38But they were snapped.
08:39Wow.
08:40You're subordinates will be reported to DoorDash HQ.
08:45Alexei, it's me.
08:46Open up.
08:47Elena?
08:48Hold on!
08:49Elena!
08:50Hi, dad.
08:51Red Guardian lives in a literal pig style.
08:52What are you talking about?
08:53That place is gorgeous.
08:54It's a gorgeous studio apartment in Van Nuys.
08:55Oh, my goodness.
08:56Just depressed as hell.
08:57Yeah.
08:58I feel like...
08:59That place is gorgeous.
09:00It's a gorgeous studio apartment in Van Nuys.
09:01Oh, my goodness.
09:02talking about that place is gorgeous.
09:03Gorgeous studio apartment in Van Nuys.
09:06Oh my goodness.
09:07Just depressed as hell.
09:09I feel like all of us,
09:11just like barely getting out of bed these superheroes.
09:15Yeah, Ghost has a new suit that's very chaotic to put on.
09:18Yes, in life and in the movie.
09:21In life and in the movie, yeah.
09:23And they all come together
09:25and realize the meaning of Christmas.
09:28And this is our teaser for our Christmas movie.
09:32Hey everybody, it's Christmas.
09:34Merry Christmas.
09:35Happy New Year, woo.
09:37What was your most unhinged chaotic moment on set?
09:40Oh God.
09:41Mmm.
09:43Oh my God.
09:45We're in the desert, lying down on the floor,
09:47doing a scene, and as we get up,
09:50someone just comes and like pats my leg.
09:53And I'm like, what's going on?
09:54There's a scorpion on your leg, a scorpion on your leg.
09:56Oh no.
09:57And there was, where we were lying down,
09:59we were like on a scorpion's, oh.
10:02Yeah, like nest.
10:03Scorpion's nest.
10:04We were literally lying down.
10:06I did not know.
10:07No, we were lying down and we got up
10:09and we were, I had to have umbrellas
10:10because it was so hot, we were in the desert
10:11and we were waiting to do the reset.
10:14And then we were gonna get back down on the floor
10:16and someone came and patted my leg
10:18and there was a, thank God I was wearing those combat boots.
10:20Because there was a scorpion on my combat boot
10:23climbing up my leg.
10:24Yep.
10:24And then we were like, no way are we lying down.
10:27And then we were like, reset, reset,
10:29then we went down there.
10:30The scorpion's gone.
10:31We're like, give it one of the other ones.
10:33That's really freaky.
10:35I know.
10:36So that's awful.
10:36That was pretty unhinged.
10:37Yeah.
10:39I split my head open.
10:40That was a blast.
10:42Yeah, he got staples.
10:44He got staples.
10:45I remember I kept saying, I was like, guys,
10:47this is really dangerous, because we're running right
10:50in front of this little two by four
10:53that sticks out right here.
10:54We have to duck into it.
10:56It's really dangerous.
10:57Can we not do this?
10:58They were like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:59Let's just go one more time.
11:01And we came in and I went through.
11:03And then why?
11:04And then I just heard like, oh.
11:06And he went down to the ground, came back over.
11:09And blood was spewing everywhere.
11:11You were such a trooper though.
11:12You came straight the next day.
11:14Like, with staples in your head, and you were like,
11:18right, let's go.
11:19You don't have a scar.
11:21Yeah, in my hairline.
11:22And I've got three inches lower,
11:24would have been the scar guy for the rest of my life.
11:27A lot of rolls with cool scars in them.
11:30Would have been really good for the career.
11:33Yeah, but that was fun.
11:35Brought me back to days before.
11:37That was an unhinged day.
11:38Lots of adrenaline in that day, and running through holes
11:41that were too tight for us to run the young.
11:43Where I had to go first with you behind me.
11:46Oh my god, that's not a good idea.
11:48Just like all of that energy killed me too.
11:51Little Florence View in front of 250-pound David Armour.
11:55And then expect them.
11:56Going down a stairwell in a little hole.
11:58And then expect a little hole.
12:00Because he's not going to necessarily hit the steps as he goes down.
12:03I also remember every time I went down, my battens would get stuck on the concrete above.
12:07And so I'd be like, ah!
12:10We're unhinged!
12:11Merry Christmas!
12:13Merry Christmas, everyone!
12:15Merry Christmas!
12:16Well, I think when you watch this movie, you'll see that there's a pretty big impact on the MCU.
12:23Don't say anything more than that.
12:25Don't say anything more than that.
12:27Don't say anything more than that.
12:28Yeah.
12:29He'll get fired.
12:30Yeah.
12:31What I will say.
12:32In my unhinged version.
12:36I'm really excited about Doomsday.
12:41I'm very excited.
12:43I think everyone's very excited about that old actor Robert Downey Jr. coming back to the helm.
12:51And I'm excited to see what he does.
12:53And I think those Russo brothers really know how to make Avengers movies on an epic scale.
12:59So I'm excited to step into that.
13:01And yes, it's a real, you know.
13:03It's a huge honor.
13:04It's a huge honor.
13:05It's a huge honor.
13:06It is.
13:07All will be revealed when you come to see Thunderbolts in cinemas.
13:10By the popcorn.
13:11And IMAX.
13:12Yeah.
13:13Yeah.
13:14I know what I'm doing.
13:15Thanks for joining us around the table.
13:19Yay!
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