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Even Marvel haters will be won over by new Thunderbolts* movie starring Florence Pugh who could save the ailing franchise

For an actress not yet 30, Florence Pugh has a thrillingly varied set of credits.

Pugh made her MCU debut four years ago in Black Widow, with Yelena serving as a kind of comic foil to Scarlett Johansson's more po-faced Natasha Romanoff, her older sister. As for the story itself, its chief villain is the exotically-named CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (the ever excellent Julia Louis-Dreyfus, playing a ramped-up version of conniving Selina Meyer in the TV satire Veep), whose eager assistant Mel (Geraldine Viswanathan) becomes increasingly concerned about her boss's evil chicanery. Facing an impeachment trial and determined to get rid of anyone who might testify against her, Valentina lays a trap for the motley crew she used to send out to do her dirty work, who also include the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), would-be Captain America John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) and Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen).

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