Thunderbolts* Director on What Red Guardian, Bucky, & Ghost’s Shame Rooms Looked Like

Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier has revealed what the shame rooms for David Harbour’s Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen’s Ghost, and Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes looked like.

Marvel’s Thunderbolts* was released in United States movie theaters this past weekend. In addition to Harbour, John-Kamen, and Stan, the MCU movie stars Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Wyatt Russell as John Walker/U.S. Agent, Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster, Lewis Pullman as Bob Reynolds/Sentry, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.

During the third act of Thunderbolts*, Sentry’s alter ego, the Void, has plunged New York City into darkness. Yelena and the rest of the Thunderbolts willingly step into said darkness in order to find Bob and save everyone, but, in order to do so, they have to relive some of their worst memories via “shame rooms.”

The movie offers insight into what Yelena, U.S. Agent, Bob, and Val’s shame rooms look like; however, audiences never get a peek into what said environment looks like for Bucky, Ghost, or Red Guardian. 

What did the shame rooms for Red Guardian, Bucky, and Ghost look like in Thunderbolts*?

Speaking with Variety, Schreier revealed, “We had Alexei in the gulag, I think, having been thrown in there. I believe Ghost’s was about her time in the orphanage, and being this girl that no one wanted to be around — to be able to be invisible and see the way that you’re perceived and no one wanting to associate with you felt very sad. We had a lot of different Bucky ones. We always wanted to do something a little less than the expected idea. There’s some very obvious things for Bucky, but I think at one point, Joanna had written something around some shameful moment in Boy Scout camp. But I don’t know that that would have really been the right path for it. That’s the nice thing with working with these actors — they’re such invested, caring guardians of their characters and their arcs that they’ll let you know something feels false or not right to them.”

Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* is now playing in movie theaters across the United States.