Florence Pugh Hopes Tom Cruise Thinks She’s Cool After ‘Thunderbolts*’ Stunt (Exclusive)

Florence Pugh and David Harbour sat down with “Extra’s” Jake Hamilton to talk “Thunderbolts*”! 

Florence dished on an epic stunt that had her jumping off the second-tallest building in the world... with no net below! 

Pugh said, "When I read it, I thought that obviously the way the were gonna do that is there's of course gonna be, like, a net underndeath me... Obviously, I'd be wearing a harness, but, like, there would always be something underneath me. And then I remember, like, maybe two weeks before the stunt, I was asking one of the stunties, being like, ‘And where's, at what level is the net?'... I was like, 'Well, where's the net?’ And they go, ‘Well, we can't rig a net around the building.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, of course you can't rig a net around the building.’” 

"So there was no net!" she emphasized. "And that was one of the biggest differences in my brain, where I was like, obviously, there'll be, like, a trampoline underneath me. But there was no trampoline, no net, and I was just hanging there."

Florence showed love for Tom Cruise after previously crediting his death-defying "Mission: Impossible" stunts as her inspiration.

She noted, “I hope he thinks I'm cool enough, but here's the thing: I just love everything that he does and what he brings to the stunt world and the appreciation, and just he's so vocal about how amazing the stunt world is and are, and I wouldn't have been able to do any of the stuff on this movie if it hadn't been for a fantastic stunts team... So, yeah, of course Tom is admirable, but I'm not coming for his medal. I just wanted to try it."

David talked about getting to deliver the epic line, “We are the Thunderbolts!” 

He shared, “It's a great moment. There's a little more color in that line in the actual picture… than they've shown you in the trailers but, yeah, it's great to be the guy on the ground who gets to scream out the name right before right before entering battle.”

Harbour then quipped, “I’m the only guy who thinks we’re a team. All the rest of you are like, 'I'm out.' I'm like, 'Guys, this is the moment!'"

We also had to talk “Avengers: Doomsday," with both Florence and David being part of the recently announced all-star cast!

David shared, “I hope I get to interact with some OG X-Men, like, I grew up with those movies — Ian McKellen, you got Alan Cumming back with the tail and the Nightcrawler running around. I mean, Rebecca Romijn in blue [as Mystique]? Gimme! I want! I wanna joke around... I wanna say some stupid Thunderbolts things."

Jake asked, "What if she transformed into you guys, and then you guys get to be Mystique?"

David reacted, "Wait a minute, somebody get a screenwriter down here! That's amazing. I want Mystique to play Red Guardian at some point in the movie."

Jake pointed out, “Which means you get to play Mystique." Harbour agreed, saying, “I get to play Mystique playing me… My brain would explode. That's amazing. Somebody get that screenwriter down here."