Black Widow: David Harbour Fits Into The Suit Of Red Guardian

Harbour’s Alexei Shostakov takes center stage in the latest clip from the next Marvel movie. In the forthcoming Black Widow, Harbour, who plays Alexei Shostakov, will be seen fitting into his old suit of Red Guardian.

During a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Harbour revealed his debut in a brand new Black Widow clip for Marvel Studio, scheduled to release in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access on Friday, July 9, 2021.

Check out the new Black Widow clip (starting at 9:38) in the player below.

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David Harbour on JIMMY Kimmel Live

The scene has the Russian Superhero dust off and put on his Red Guardian suit, which still fits, much to his surprise. He then joins his family, Scarlet Johansson’s Natasha, Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, and Rachel Weisz’s Melina Vostokoff, for supper.

While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel live to promote Black Widow, Harbour talked about how he handled differentiating the two roles, explaining that he finished shooting the third season of stranger Things 2019.

Harbour revealed with a laugh:

And then literally a month later, I got a call from Marvel that they wanted me to play a guy who starts in a Russian prison

David Harbour
Black Widow: David Harbour Fits Into The Suit Of Red Guardian
Red Guardian

Harbour also said that he wanted the characters to speak in the Russian Language in Black Widow and insert subtitles for the audience to understand, just like the pg-13 movies where except Tom Cruise everybody had a german accent.

But the production chosed to speak in English, albeit with a Russian accent.

It’s not the best look for a Marvel movie. It’s like a pg-13 to have you just reading subtitles the entire movie and due to which the idea was not well received by the producer when I brought it up.

David Harbour

As Harbour explained, playing Red Guardian contributed to shaping Hopper’s look in the upcoming season, which features the character in a Russian prison sporting a shaved head.

Black Widow: David Harbour Fits Into The Suit Of Red Guardian
David Harbour as Red Guardian

At the end  [of Stranger Things Season 3], I had all this hair and all this beard, and we had planned to do it that way. And I was like, ‘Guys; we can’t do this. I mean, I’m coming out with this Marvel movie. I can’t have the beard and the hair, so we came up with a whole different look for it.

David Harbour

Despite being a short clip, the unique dynamic between the characters leaks marvelously through the scene. While much of the story remains a mystery, it’s clear these cast of characters have a history together that was long forgotten.

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About Black Widow

Black Widow is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is intended to be the 24th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

Directed by Cate Shortland and written by Eric Pearson, the movie stars Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff alongside Florence Pugh, David Harbour, O-T Fagbenle, William Hurt, Ray Winstone, and Rachel Weisz.

It will be the first film in Phase Four of the MCU, and was delayed three times from an original May 2020 release date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Disney confirms Marvel Studios’ Black Widow will release on Disney+ for no extra cost to existing subscribers after its Premier Access release, October 6.

The film follows Natasha Romanoff as she confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.

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