This Is Why 'Thunderbolts' Star Lewis Pullman Looks So Familiar

I finally figured it out

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After commanding $382.4 million globally at the box office, Thunderbolts is having another round of success on Disney+.

The film, which hit theaters on May 5, features an ensemble cast that includes stars like Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Olga Kurylenko and more. It tells the story of a dysfunctional team of antiheroes who Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) brings together to go on a dangerous mission that forces them to confront their shared trauma, guilt and past mistakes. Speaking of the film’s stars, Lewis Pullman (who plays "Bob") looks super familiar, and it took quite a while to place where else I've seen him.

Aside from commanding headlines for his relationship with Kaia Gerber, Pullman has starred in noteworthy films like Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and had a starring role in Salem's Lot (2024). Beginning his career in 2017 with The Ballad of Lefty Brown, Pullman comes from an acting background, as his father, Bill Pullman, achieved fame in the 1990s with movies like Casper and Independence Day.

In 2018, Lewis played a leading role in the slasher film The Strangers: Prey at Night, and that same year, he starred alongside Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm and Chris Hemsworth in the film Bad Times at the El Royale.

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In 2022, he played Rhett Abbott in the Amazon series Outer Range and had a starring role as Lieutenant Robert "Bob" Floyd in Top Gun: Maverick, which grossed over $1.4 billion at the box office.

You may also recognize him from the 2023 Apple TV+ miniseries Lessons in Chemistry, where he and Brie Larson played a pair of chemists who fall in love amidst the sexist and patriarchal challenges of early 1950s society. The series was based on Bonnie Garmus' novel of the same title. Up next for Pullman is the highly anticipated Avengers: Doomsday, which will see the Avengers, Wakandans, Fantastic Four, New Avengers and the X-Men teaming up to face Doctor Doom. The film premieres on December 18, 2026.

Pullman has a growing career with plenty more ahead, which is exactly why I’m glad I was able to figure out where else I’ve seen him.

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