Thunderbolts director reveals scrapped idea for Bucky's unseen shame room, and it's absolutely nothing like what you'd expect

Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes in Marvel's Thunderbolts — (Image credit: Marvel Studios)

In Thunderbolts*, Lewis Pullman's Bob (aka The Sentry, aka The Void) has the power to trap people in their most traumatic memories, but not everyone's nightmares were included in the final cut of the MCU film.

Director Jake Schreier spoke recently about some scrapped ideas, including an unexpected shame room for Sebastian Stan's Bucky.

"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," he revealed during an interview with Variety.

In the interview, the director also explained why some shame rooms were included and others weren't – it just had to make sense for the story.

"There was a time when the finale became an escape through all of their shame rooms, and I think that would have been very fun. But something Joanna really spoke up for was needing to have a Big Bad moment before they got out of the Void. And if it’s going to lead to the heart of the Void, then it felt like it was more important to take a journey through Bob’s shame rooms – as much as I am very sad not to have gotten to get in every character’s past," he explained.

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