Ever since Stranger Things arrived on Netflix in 2016, people have been enamored with David Harbour. While he’s been a type of actors who’ve at all times been round, you could not have realized it earlier than his flip as Hopper within the Netflix sequence. That present gave his profession an enormous enhance, and it’s solely grown after he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Red Guardian in final 12 months’s Black Widow.

With how followers took to Guardian earlier than and particularly after the discharge of that movie, it was inevitable that very like Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, we’d be seeing him once more in one thing pretty quickly. Come D23 this previous September, we bought our reply: Guardian will probably be in the primary staff for the upcoming Thunderbolts film together with Yelena, Sebastian Stan’s Winter Soldier, and different pretty latest MCU antagonists like Julia Louis-Dreyfuss’ Contessa.

While that movie isn’t out for one more few years, io9’s Germain Lussier just lately bought an opportunity to talk with Harbour about it through the press circuit for the actor’s upcoming vacation movie, Violent Night. Though Harbour admitted that he hadn’t been given a script but from screenwriter Eric Pearson (an MCU alum whose earlier works embrace Black Widow), he did say he was advised “the arc of the movie and how it functions…and it’s super cool. The idea is really cool.”

The basic roster of the MCU Thunderbolts feels unusual, and Guardian’s inclusion on the staff is by far the oddest, since he hasn’t performed something evil or malicious in the direction of franchise heroes. Even so, Harbour advised io9 that the weirdness of all of it is a part of the purpose, saying “to throw these characters feels very random.”

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“I’ve loved Wyatt [Russell], and Sebastian and Julia’s characters throughout the universe,” he continued. “What [director Jake Schreier] wants to do with Florence’s character is very interesting and how I factor into how we develop our relationship is very interesting. And then when you see what Jake and Eric Pearson is trying to fashion, it’s really clever…So you have this movie that’s, you know, kind of ragtag.”

Beyond that eclectic lineup, he concluded the interview by promising some huge issues to return for the broader MCU with this new movie. “It’ll be funny. it’ll be weird, it’ll be action. And then we’re also going to drop a bomb, which is cool.”

Marvel’s Thunderbolts is anticipated to hit theaters on July 26, 2024.

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