Florence Pugh’s Yelena is only becoming more and more central to the Marvel project with each passing film. Thunderbolts is the first movie where she’s the film’s lead, though, and it’s also the one where she brings the most emotional baggage.
Coming out of Thunderbolts, though, Pugh said that she’s hoping she can bring Yelena back to a lighter place when we next see her in Avengers: Doomsday.
“I hope that she’s happy now. I hope that she feels fulfilled, like she has purpose,” Pugh told Variety when asked what she was hoping to see from Yelena in Doomsday. “And I hope that we get to see some of her light and her charm and her color again because I loved playing that before.”
Pugh also discussed her excitement about the huge ensemble that’s being assembled for the film, saying that there were too many big names in the cast to choose from. “Oh, god, there’s too many people in it [to choose]! Pedro Pascal, obviously, always and forever. Paul Rudd, yes, so funny. Genuinely, the idea that all of those people are going to be in the same movie is nutso sauce,” she said.
Although we know that Pugh will be in the film, we have no idea how big Yelena and her castmate’s roles will be in the film. Given the way Pugh’s star has continued to rise in the years since she joined the MCU, though, it’s a solid bet to expect her to be central to whatever Marvel has planned moving forward.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.