Xochitl Gomez Wants America Chavez to Team With Florence Pugh's Yelena
In a Collider interview, Gomez said she would love to work with Florence Pugh and pictured the two characters meeting at a bagel shop.
Xochitl Gomez said she would personally love to work with Florence Pugh in the MCU, according to an interview with Collider. Asked who she wants America Chavez to team up with when the character returns, Gomez named Pugh's Yelena Belova.
Gomez went further, describing how she imagines the pairing: America Chavez and Yelena Belova having a fun interaction at a bagel shop on a New York corner.
The question was put to her by Collider's Samantha Coley, in an interview tied to Gomez's new film The Cat in the Hat, which releases this Friday.
Gomez first played America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, released in 2022, which grossed over $950 million worldwide. Pugh's Yelena Belova has appeared across several MCU titles.
Elsewhere in the franchise, Avengers: Secret Wars is currently scheduled for release on December 18, 2027, and Avengers: Doomsday, which stars Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, will lead directly into it.
Quick answers
Who does Xochitl Gomez want America Chavez to team up with?
Gomez said she would personally love to work with Florence Pugh, and suggested America Chavez and Yelena Belova could have a fun interaction at a bagel shop on a New York corner.
Where did Xochitl Gomez make the comments?
In an interview with Collider's Samantha Coley about her new film The Cat in the Hat.
When does The Cat in the Hat release?
The Cat in the Hat releases this Friday.