
Harrison Ford will also make his MCU debut, taking over the part of Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross from the late William Hurt. Aside from Louis-Dreyfus, it will also see the return of Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, and Hannah John-Kamen to their respective Marvel Cinematic Universe roles. Thunderbolts will be directed by Jake Schreier when the shoot finally does begin. I told them I really, really want to fight. On top of commenting on the June filming schedule, the actress stated she’d spoken with Marvel about allowing her character to be involved in a few action sequences as well: Fans have been eagerly awaiting more news on the project, and it would seem Louis-Dreyfus is more than happy to oblige. The film, about a “ rag-tag bunch” of vengeful anti-heroes, is currently scheduled to release on July 26th, 2024, which would make a production start in the summer of 2023 seem like a fairly sensical plan. Speaking exclusively with Variety, the former Veep star revealed that Thunderbolts will begin its shoot in June. Jackson‘s Nick Fury as the government-sponsored administrator behind the world’s next supergroup, and Louis-Dreyfus can’t wait to get filming started. The character, who first appeared via cameos in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Black Widow before gaining a larger role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, is set to replace Samuel L.

One fact that has remained clear and constant, however, is the heavy involvement of Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘ mysterious Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. Everything has been questioned, from the titular team’s line-up to who they’ll face when the cards are down. She's been operating as a kind of villainous Nick Fury so far, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever introduced to the canon that Martin Freeman's Everett Ross is her ex-husband, but we want to know more (and we already know that we're going to see her fight).Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts has been surrounded by a litany of questions since its formal announcement at San Diego Comic-Con in 2022.
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While Valentina Allegra de Fontaine has been dancing around the edges of the post- Avengers: Endgame Marvel Cinematic Universe, Julia Louis-Dreyfus' suggestion that the movie is "very character driven" gives us hope that it will give us the opportunity to get to know the character better. I'm particularly excited about it because it's very character driven this particular movie, so I think it'll be fun. But Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who starred opposite the actor in the 2013 romantic comedy Enough Said.


I mean it's a really good group of actors, and I'm excited about it. I'm looking forward to working with Florence Pugh again, and Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell and David Harbour. And Valentina is gonna be quite the force. I'm going to be in Thunderbolts, we're about to start shooting that momentarily. The Seinfeld and Veep star does a career retrospective in the interview, and while discussing her work on the aforementioned Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, she teases what's next for Valentina Allegra de Fontaine:

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is part of the stacked cast in Thunderbolts, the actor set to star alongside David Harbour, Florence Pugh, Olga Kurylenko, Sebastian Stan, Hannah John-Kamen, Wyatt Russell, and more, and she recently expressed her excitement about the film with Vanity Fair.
