Marvel Studios grabbed headlines with its presentation of the MCU Phase 4 slate at SDCC 2019. And along with the intriguing new titles came some enticing cast announcements. These are just some of the actors set to make a big splash in the MCU, along with some clues as to where you’ve seen them before.
At the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios revealed some details of its long-anticipated Black Widow standalone movie, including the confirmation that rising English star Florence Pugh would portray a character named Yelena Belova, who the actress described as a “sister figure” to Natasha Romanoff. Pugh first appeared on screen in the 2014 British film The Falling.
From there she moved on to the romantic drama Lady Macbeth, which she followed with a role as Cordelia in the 2018 TV movie version of King Lear. More recently, she had roles in Chris Pine’s 14th century Scottish epic Outlaw King and AMC’s assassin thriller miniseries The Little Drummer Girl. Pugh is having a very good 2019; just before the announcement that she’d co-star in Black Widow, she played a younger version of real-life WWE wrestler Paige in the well-received comedy Fighting with My Family. She followed that immediately with the lead role in Midsommar, the critical darling of a horror movie about a weird Swedish cult and its not-so-innocuous solstice festival.
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Florence Pugh in Black Widow | 0:17
O-T Fagbenle in Black Widow | 1:17
Awkwafina in Shang-Chi | 2:10
Simu Liu in Shang-Chi | 3:35
Brian Tyree Henry in The Eternals | 4:18
Lauren Ridloff in The Eternals | 5:40
Mahershala Ali in Blade | 6:34