Julia Louis Dreyfus returns as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine in Thunderbolts* and teases that the Marvel film will reveal her grasp plan.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus has performed Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine within the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a handful of tasks, however the upcoming Thunderbolts* will lastly present a couple of solutions in regards to the character’s grasp plan.
“It’s a completely different beast,” Louis-Dreyfus instructed Entertainment Weekly about how Thunderbolts* compares to her earlier MCU appearances. “This film’s an actual alternative for me to actually discover the Val character. You actually get to know what she’s fabricated from, and even loads of her backstory. She’s in it to win it.“
She continued, “You’re going to see her complete plan unfold. It has loads of thriller to it and there’s some twists and turns that you simply don’t see coming, that are the perfect variety. There’s loads of suspense, which could be very groovy.“
Along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, the movie stars Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, David Harbour as Crimson Guardian, Wyatt Russell as US Agent, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, and Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster. Geraldine Viswanathan will make an look and exchange Ayo Edebiri, who was initially connected. Lewis Pullman can be on board as The Sentry, taking on for Steven Yeun, who was solid within the function earlier than he needed to depart.
Though Val has assembled these anti-heroes, she’s not precisely Nick Fury. “She is about four steps ahead all the time, or at least she thinks she is until she’s not,” Louis-Dreyfus mentioned. “All of these characters have worked for her under certain circumstances, so she would fancy herself as a bit of a puppet master, and she’s very power-hungry. She’s a user of anti-heroes. She definitely sees herself as the leader, the organizer of this group, but I’m not sure they see her as such.” The actress continued, “Her intentions aren’t necessarily pure. You’ve got hero, you’ve got anti-hero, you have villain…is there such a thing as an anti-villain?” Val has beforehand appeared in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Black Widow, and Black Panther: Wakanda Without end.
Thunderbolts* will hit theaters on Could 2, 2025.
