Florence Pugh not too long ago advised Fandango that she incessantly emailed Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige about not utilizing a stunt double for the filming of a “Thunderbolts*” scene by which her character, Yelena Belova, jumps off the second tallest constructing on this planet. That may be the Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The constructing stands at 2,722 toes tall. Pugh loves heights and needed to be the one to leap off.

“I received on all of the emails. It was within the script, after which slowly as we received nearer and nearer to capturing, they stated they don’t suppose it’s going to occur as a result of it’s a loopy insurance coverage ordeal and clearly we’re not going to throw [me] off the second tallest constructing on this planet,” Pugh stated. “I used to be like what the fuck? After all we’re! We now have to do this.”

“I used to be being a sassy Karen emailing Kevin [Feige] and saying it’s going to do wonders for the press tour,” she continued. “We now have to do that! We’re going to have three ladies break three completely different Guinness World Data and we’ll do that and this. I needed to carry on pushing after which they’re like, ‘Okay, if you wish to fall off the second tallest constructing, we’ll determine it out for you.’ I don’t thoughts heights. I fairly like them and luxuriate in them, however that was a complete completely different ballgame and insane. The psychological management I had to do this day was its personal tremendous energy.”

Pugh added that leaping off the second tallest constructing on this planet required such adrenaline that “I fell asleep for 3 hours after I did the stunt as a result of my mind [went down].”

Tom Cruise famously scaled the world’s tallest constructing, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, through the filming of 2011’s “Mission: Not possible – Ghost Protocol.” That stunt stays one of many hallmarks of Cruise’s run as Ethan Hunt within the long-running motion franchise.

Pugh is starring in “Thunderbolts*” reverse Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The Marvel tentpole facilities on a few of the MCU’s anti-heroes as they’re pressured to crew up on a harmful mission.

“Thunderbolts*” opens in theaters Might 2 from Disney and Marvel Studios.