Florence Pugh says Yelena only ended up in Brand New Day because Tom Holland chose her over Marvel’s biggest superheroes “Oh, you know, this all happened because of Tom. "So, years ago, when I had just kind of started my relationship with Marvel, and Black Widow had come out, and my Yelena wasn’t as obviously big as all of the other big superheroes.” “He, on the red carpet of his previous movie, when someone said, ‘Who do you want to do the next movie with? Do you want it to be with Thor?’ And I don’t remember the superheroes, but they were, like, all massive superheroes. "And he said, ‘No, actually, I want to, I want to do it with Florence Pugh, who plays Yelena.’” “So because of that, fans were then, like, so excited about the idea of it, and that started the ball rolling. So thanks to Tom. Thank you, Tom.” Jimmy Fallon: “Yeah. Come on. Thanks, Tom Holland. I love that dude.”