Black Widow’s Olga Kurylenko On Fighting, Feminism & Working With Scarlett | GLAMOUR Unfiltered

Olga Kurylenko has made a name for herself kicking ass. First as Bond Girl Camille Montes alongside Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace and now she’s back on the big-screen in the box office-smashing and most feminist Marvel Studios movie to date, Black Widow. Although the Ukrainian-French actor’s identity as the iconic villain Taskmaster is only revealed in the last scenes (she is behind a mask throughout the film) and has divided fans due to the gender-flip from the original Marvel Comics, where Taskmaster was a man. In the film the baddie’s character is revealed to be Antonia Dreykov, the daughter of the evil General Dreykov and who was thought to have been killed by Scarlett Johansson’s ex KGB assassin, Natasha Romanv, AKA Black Widow back in the 2012 film, The Avengers . But she’s still alive, with facial disfigurement and being forced to be her father’s ultimate fighting weapon, mimicking any opponent who crosses her path with adept skill in her scary Terminator vibes suit. Off screen, the 41-ye
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