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It's beautiful, isn't it?
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The Eternals is definitely
a very ambitious film.
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You've got 10 new characters.
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It spans 7,000 years.
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You're on Earth, but you're also in space.
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You're all over the planet.
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Yeah, the scope and the scale of it
is huge.
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I mean, it's, I would argue,
our most ambitious film ever,
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and that's in a MCU that has Endgame.
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There are monsters,
there are giant space gods.
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There's also a love story.
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It's part of why it got us excited
as filmmakers.
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We've made 25 plus movies
at Marvel Studios,
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but this does feel distinctly different
than anything we've done before.
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This is a new world.
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I think that's the thing
that's incredible about Marvel,
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it's an incredibly complex universe.
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I really think
Eternals is the most epic movie
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It's literally the highest stakes
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that any MCU superhero
has had to deal with so far.
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By the end of this film,
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how we look at the MCU
and the Earth itself will change.
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The impact the Eternals will have
on the MCU
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will be nothing less than redefining
the Cinematic Universe entirely.
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My initial vision for the film
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can be summed up
in the William Blake poem.
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"To see the World
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"in a Grain of Sand
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"And a Heaven in a Wild Flower.
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"Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
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"And Eternity in an hour."
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When I went in to pitch
without saying anything,
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that's what I did.
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The vision for the film is
how can we capture something so epic
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and intimate at the same time,
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something as epic
as the creation of the sun
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and as intimate as
the soft whispers of a lover?
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And how to have these moments
coexist in the film?
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And that was the challenge.
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I'm not quite sure how it happened.
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I had just made The Rider at the time.
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So, when I got a call to come in
to meet Nate Moore,
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I was very surprised and happy
about Eternals.
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We always look for directors
that inspire us
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and who get great performances.
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And I had seen Chloé's first film,
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and then I saw The Rider
and thought it was amazing.
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The very first conversation
I had with Nate
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was very much about, obviously,
the stories and characters,
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but also what I can contribute.
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Right away we dive into,
one is, what are we doing,
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but also how we're doing it.
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Because how we're making this film
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is going to define
what this film's gonna become.
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almost like an independent film
that is huge.
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When I heard she's doin' a Marvel movie,
I was like,
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"Oh, God, I'd love to be a part of that."
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And see how she gets in behind this
superhero world and makes it her own.
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Chloé Zhao, who comes out of a more
naturalistic style of film making,
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really pressed us to figure out
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how to shoot more of this
on practical location,
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which, again, is challenging
just from a logistical standpoint
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of getting your crew to different places.
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Finding places that you can shoot outside,
battling rain and the elements,
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it's challenging.
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It's hard on your crew,
it's hard on your cast,
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it's hard on our VFX team.
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But it's all in service of
an aesthetic that's totally different.
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That's a challenge we wanted to take on.
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It's definitely a challenge,
but it's a challenge I love.
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Because I came in both as a filmmaker
who wants to tell a story
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but also as a fan.
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For me, the MCU is a place with
great characters and great adventures.
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And it's very obvious
it is made by a team of people
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who really love the genre
and love their fans.
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It is time.
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Marvel Studios and
the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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is now past their 10th anniversary.
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And with the release of
the final Avengers movie,
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we finally completed
a 22-movie Infinity saga.
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Where do we go from there?
Where do we start?
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And what we really wanted to do
was two things.
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Start fresh with whole new characters,
new storylines,
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but actually go back to some of
the deepest, richest mythology
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in all of Marvel Comics.
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And when you look at
the myth-builders of Marvel,
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Jack Kirby, he's called King Kirby
for a reason,
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and he created The Eternals
many years ago,
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which is one of the most mythologically
rich storylines in the history of Marvel.
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It really gives us
a rich canvas to play with,
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not just the Marvel canvas,
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but the actual historical mythologies
of our world.
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The Eternals in the comics were
created by Jack Kirby in the late 1970s.
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It was his second stint at Marvel,
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and he was looking to do something
cosmic and completely new.
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And in the comics, much like our film,
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their job was
to protect humanity long enough
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for the Celestials to come back and judge
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whether humanity was worthy of
joining them in the stars.
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In our film, I think they share
a very similar origin.
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In the comics, the Celestials
came to Earth, found early man,
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and I love that he was able to bring
space mythology
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with human mythology of the planet Earth
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and that he combined that together
and created characters
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that experienced that.
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And gave us an opportunity to be able
to re-learn about our own history.
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We're really excited
to explore the origins
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of the entire
Marvel Cinematic Universe in our film.
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We're looking at, for the first time,
meeting the Celestials face to face,
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And you've sort of seen
glimpses of them in other films.
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The Celestials we have hinted at
in earlier films,
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Guardians of the Galaxy, Knowhere,
the base of operations for the Collector,
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is in fact a Celestial head.
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The Celestials are such a cornerstone
of Marvel storytelling in publishing
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and we wanna make them equally important
to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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At its heart, Eternals is an epic.
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It's about immortality.
It's about identity, it's about duty.
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All the comics, every graphic novel,
everything about this universe,
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"Here you go. Go make up a movie."
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And we spent four weeks, five weeks
really just thinking
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and bashing our heads against the wall
and coming up with this world.
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The Eternals has had three runs in comics
spanning over the last 30 or 40 years.
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I mean, we're endlessly inspired
by all of King Kirby's works
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and Neil Gaiman's run with The Eternals.
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The expectation,
I think, by our fans,
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is that we're really going to mine from
the Neil Gaiman early 2000s run.
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And that, to a lot of degrees,
is the most popular of The Eternals runs,
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I have seen them fight and lie and kill...
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But I have also seen them...
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laugh and love.
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What I like about
the story of Eternals
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is that we're going back to
the beginning of our civilization
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to see that actually,
they've been among us,
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and they've been helping us
for all this time.
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We're able to look at
real historical events.
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We're able to look at the tragedies
and our greatest moments
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and look at it through the lens of
what it means to be here on this planet.
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This planet...
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and these people...
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have changed me.
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And that afforded us an opportunity
to go back in time
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and see things we haven't seen before.
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Not only in the Marvel Universe,
but as filmmakers,
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things that we don't get to see
a lot in film, frankly.
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Ancient Mesopotamia
at the very dawn of civilization
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and ancient Babylon, which is to most
historians the cradle of civilization.
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The Gupta Empire at 200 AD.
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but was very rich with
a lot of historical facts
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that even us as filmmakers
didn't know about.
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Why didn't you guys help fight Thanos?
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Or any war? Or all the other
terrible things throughout history?
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We were instructed
not to interfere in any human conflicts
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unless Deviants were involved.
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Initially, trying to define
what these Deviants were,
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we started looking
at ancient monsters from old stories.
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You know,
from the Greeks and the Egyptians.
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Chloé wanted something very unique.
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We wanted to have something
that was alien,
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but also add shapes
that we could kinda recognize.
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Like, at the beginning
of the film, in Mesopotamia,
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they're much bigger,
they're like dinosaurs.
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They're huge monsters.
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And as they evolve and as the time passes,
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they become more like animals
that we see nowadays.
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So, there was all that
kind of storytelling aspect of it
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and that was informing
the design of the Deviants.
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Even though The Eternals
takes place over 10,000 years
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and there's these different elements
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at the same time, Kevin and Nate,
through the whole process
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have just constantly promoted character.
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It's important to know the tone
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and the genre of the movie
you're trying to make.
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And the action to some degree, I think,
and I think our fans would agree...
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Run!
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...is secondary to the storytelling,
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to what is the emotional core of
this movie, and why is that special
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and why is that moving.
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Because if the emotional core
and the characters aren't there,
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then there's no attachment to
whatever happens to Iron Man or Thor.
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In this case, the Eternals.
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And then at the core of it actually,
I think, is the journey of self-discovery.
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Our film is really led by Sersi,
this complex and flawed female hero
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who really is, I think, our most human
hero in the MCU that we've ever seen.
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Ethereal.
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Observant.
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Sweetness.
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Ikaris carries the weight of the world
on his shoulders.
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He is the loyal soldier.
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He wrestles with what's right
for him as a being
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and what's right for the greater good.
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So...
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Ikaris.
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Sersi and Ikaris have been
on and off for about 5,000 years
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so, yes, pretty long-term.
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I guess you can call that long-term.
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I think they look at humanity
very differently.
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One analogy I really like is that
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when Sersi sees a desert,
she sees grains of sand
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and she finds beauty
in every grain of sand.
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But Ikaris doesn't really see that.
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He's looking at, "Okay, now
there's danger in the desert.
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"We need to go." Then they
fall in love with each other
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because they love seeing the world
through each other's eyes.
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You know, they've hurt each other
in the past.
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5,000 years, they've been through
everything together,
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Technology.
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Inventor.
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Smart.
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Smart.
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Protective.
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Phastos is basically
the tech no path,
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which means
I can use my mind and my energy
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to literally assemble anything
out of any technology.
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Everything he does, he wants...
It's for the advancement of humankind.
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He has so much faith in humanity.
He's so passionate
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and, unfortunately as humans, we don't
always live up to his expectations.
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At some point in his life,
he really changed his view of humankind
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and that's all she loves to do.
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She's the goddess of war.
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She can manifest
different weapons in her hands,
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which is complicated
when you're preparing or training.
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I kept asking what my weapon was gonna be
so I could practice with it.
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And I would just get weapons sent to me.
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But I kept getting so many weapons
until I realized
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it was gonna
be a combination of all of them.
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When she's not fighting, she doesn't
know where she belongs and how to be.
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She's quiet and very observant.
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And I would say has to go through
one of, if not the biggest obstacle,
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in this film.
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Strong.
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Provider.
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Special brew.
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Sexy, maybe.
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Gilgamesh is the strongest
of the Eternals.
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He is a protector. His specialties
are punch, strong punch.
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I should say big punch. Yeah.
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Gilgamesh has got the biggest heart.
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He's very loyal.
He always puts his friends first.
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It's a fun-loving, entertaining character.
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I feel like I'm a big brother
for my family.
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He's the lovable teddy bear.
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He doesn't take things too seriously.
He takes time to stop and enjoy life.
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Gilgamesh asked Druig
to put me to sleep once.
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So I could take a vacation to Fiji,
you know?
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He's also the best cook.
If there is a holiday or a party,
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you wanna want to go to Gilgamesh's house.
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Sarcasm.
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So cute.
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Tragic.
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Sprite can create illusions.
She's really fiery.
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A little bit of a temper.
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- Right?
- You abandoned me in Macedonia.
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Sprite is someone who's
lived forever, stuck in a child's body.
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And that's not easy. She is actually
the most mature of all the Eternals.
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is the way he handles Sprite.
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He gave it a new level
of tragedy and nuance,
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All she's ever wanted is to be able to
experience a beautiful life
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and be able to be a child
and go through that experience.
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For Sprite,
it's a very emotional journey for her
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to find her place.
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Oh, no, you didn't.
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Yearning.
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Jerk.
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Druig sucks.
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He does, sir.
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Druig. He's mind control.
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He stands for what he believes in.
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And if that decision puts him
in a division with the others,
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he's not afraid of that.
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He's very idealistic
and he's very philosophical.
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He is someone that if he likes you, great.
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If he doesn't like you,
you better watch out.
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Walking down the steps of the Aztec,
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the set itself was unreal.
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Very, very tricky because the steps were
very, very steep, you know,
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and I had to look at the camera
when I'm walking down.
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Just hoped that I get the next step
and, you know, play it cool.
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Then everyone in costume
and then to be standin' up,
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and everyone drops. It's like...
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That was a superhero moment, that.
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Showboat.
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Show-off.
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Funny dude.
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Joy.
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Kingo. Kingo loves life.
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So, Kingo is this guy
who's always been pretty flashy.
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He's always wanted
people to know he's a superhero,
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but he can't reveal that.
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So, to him, this is the second best thing.
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Superhero, movie star.
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So people won't know he's a superhero.
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But everyone's gonna know
he's a movie star.
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You think I'm a movie star.
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Well, I am. But I am also...
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an Eternal.
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and he does this big
Bollywood dance number.
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"Just so you know, I'm writing you
a big dance sequence."
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And I was like, "I'm full of fear.
That sounds amazing.
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"Get me a dance teacher."
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Fast.
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Fast.
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Super-fast.
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Makkari is the fastest woman
in the universe.
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She uses her cosmic energy
to run at accelerated rates.
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But she can also break the sound barrier
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so she can create these amazing
concussive blasts of sound,
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which makes her very powerful in battle.
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Anyone who's met Lauren
has seen her energy.
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She really pushed us
to use sign language in the film.
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And her husband, Doug, ended up being
a sign language interpreter for us as well
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and helped the other actors learn to sign.
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She gave us rules
by which we could run a set
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- Maternal.
- Mother.
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Mama.
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Love.
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Ajak is kind of
the leader of the Eternals.
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The way she approaches this leadership
is from the perspective of motherhood.
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So, she has a special relationship
with each one of them.
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She's both the mother and a teacher.
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She's both loving, but also tough.
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And she has some big, big decisions
to make in the film.
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I have a scene
where you have to ride a horse.
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And I had an accident with a horse
many, many years ago.
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And I freed myself
from my past, from my fear.
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But I wanted to do it.
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And I think it even helped me
with the character.
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I think, for me, each of these characters
and the journey,
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the emotional journey they go through,
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represents an aspect of human nature.
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So, in a way, what they picked up from us,
that they love or hate,
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say a lot about who they are,
but also say a lot about who we are.
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- And action.
- And action!
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I think it was very cleverly cast,
this movie.
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Every single one of us
is bizarrely right for the role.
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Everybody is unique and special
and loving and giving.
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When I cast, you know,
in all the films I've made before,
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I'm trying to see how much of this
character that's already in this person.
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That excites me the most.
As much as possible.
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So then, they're going to bring an aspect
of who they are on screen.
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There's a camera.
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It will capture something
that I can never plan
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There was definitely some
unexpected relationships and dynamics
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that came about
that I would never have thought
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just from reading the script
off the pages,
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once you get the actors together.
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I really loved having one-on-one scenes
with each of the actors in the cast,
347
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and we really discovered
unexpected things.
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I think we're very fortunate.
349
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The first time
they got in the room together,
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the sparks were just flying.
I was like, "Okay," you know?
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You never expect to see these people
in the same room in the real world.
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They come from different backgrounds,
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and they come from
different life experiences.
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But there is something about
each of my cast.
355
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There's just a bit of a misfit about them.
356
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They carry something quite special.
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And that, I think, unites them as a family
358
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because the Eternals lives
on the periphery.
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A group of immortals who have been
on Earth for 35,000 years.
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They've been there amongst the MCU.
We haven't met them before.
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Do you guys have any interest
in meeting some of the Eternals?
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- Yes!
- All right.
363
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I know the cast all met for the same
time, save Gemma, at Comic-Con in July.
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Ladies and gentlemen, as Ikaris,
Richard Madden.
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Kumail Nanjiani.
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are great inspirations.
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We also done a lot of research
with historians,
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language experts,
anthropologists, scientists.
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And it was very important
for Eternals to do that
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you want to really feel like
they were actually there, visually.
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So, as a production designer,
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you're actually responsible for every
single thing that you see on camera,
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whether someone's eatin' a sandwich,
to whether someone's driving a car
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or a spaceship, or every single location.
375
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When you have to build over 130 sets,
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it's a huge endeavor.
And the scope is enormous.
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We're traveling 'round the world,
through space, through time.
378
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It's been extraordinary,
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the breadth and width of everything
that we've had to achieve.
380
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My starting point on this film
was obviously the Kirby comics.
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I really looked at those,
and one of the great things is
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how much it linked in with the script
in certain ways.
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One of the sets in particular really
inspired me to delve further into it.
384
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And this set was
the Aztec temple of Teotihuacán.
385
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It was believed to have
been set up by gods or aliens.
386
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It's in human folklore everywhere.
387
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So, I really started to investigate this,
388
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and then it worked out that
there's over 100,000 people lived there.
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It was nowhere near a river.
It was nowhere near anything.
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And the myth and the legend is
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that some gods had come
and built this for the people.
392
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And so, that started
a real train of thought
393
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that I took through
to the rest of the production.
394
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Then I started to really get into
what influence that they think
395
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the alien peoples have come to this planet
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and had an influence
on our technology, on everything.
397
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And what was amazing
is then going back to the comics,
398
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and within that, there were illustrations
of all the temples
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and his own take on it
with the Eternals and the Celestials
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drawn within the decoration
on the temples.
401
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So we took that forward
and lifted that decoration
402
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and then had that emblazoned on our build.
403
00:21:36,585 --> 00:21:41,340
When they're in the interior, the top of
the temple, it's very much that Kirby nod.
404
00:21:41,424 --> 00:21:43,551
Our production design led by Eve Stewart,
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00:21:43,634 --> 00:21:45,636
really did their homework
creating a language
406
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that then we could employ on the costumes
and on walls of the stars hip
407
00:21:48,723 --> 00:21:50,850
and have an aesthetic that felt unified.
408
00:21:50,933 --> 00:21:53,978
We wanted it to feel ancient
and technologically advanced all at once,
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that was a challenge
from a design standpoint.
410
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How do you make these aliens feel
like they've been here for 7,000 years
411
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and also feel like
the inspiration for things
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humans built throughout history?
413
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Well, this was a real challenge
'cause when I started,
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I read that the Eternals had been created
by the Celestials.
415
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It was a million years ago, so it
can't be a spaceship like all the ones
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you love in the Ridley Scott films.
417
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And then this spaceship has been
lying dormant, theoretically, on Earth
418
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for the last 7,000 years.
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I felt it couldn't have any proper
reference to human technology.
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Also, on top of that, I just felt that it
was such a spiritual place
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for these people
and it'd been set up, theoretically,
422
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by the Celestials, which are gods.
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So, I started to look at sacred geometry,
424
00:22:39,356 --> 00:22:42,443
the way shapes worked throughout
all the religions across the world.
425
00:22:43,569 --> 00:22:45,738
All religions love a triangle.
426
00:22:45,821 --> 00:22:48,032
So, I was trying to put those together.
427
00:22:48,115 --> 00:22:52,745
So the exterior of the ship became
triangular quite quickly
428
00:22:52,828 --> 00:22:54,663
just because of aerodynamics.
429
00:22:54,747 --> 00:22:59,668
But also, Chloé and I discussed a lot
how triangles and circles fit together,
430
00:22:59,752 --> 00:23:04,298
both in Christianity and Islamism
and also in Asian culture.
431
00:23:04,381 --> 00:23:08,260
So, it became a very global thing
that we went for.
432
00:23:08,344 --> 00:23:10,846
So, we started with loads of triangles.
433
00:23:11,055 --> 00:23:12,806
And then I went to see some scientists,
434
00:23:12,890 --> 00:23:14,350
and they said this was very good
435
00:23:14,433 --> 00:23:18,979
because triangular planes
can also create a vertical lift
436
00:23:19,063 --> 00:23:21,273
if you've got enough energy
around all the points.
437
00:23:21,357 --> 00:23:22,983
So, this is where we started.
438
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I was really, really surprised
when I walked into our ship.
439
00:23:27,738 --> 00:23:31,867
Because how many ships have you seen?
They all look the same. Futuristic.
440
00:23:31,951 --> 00:23:36,830
This one is completely
out of the ordinary, unimaginable,
441
00:23:36,914 --> 00:23:40,709
every object, every little detail in it.
442
00:23:40,793 --> 00:23:43,587
It's really new and exciting.
443
00:23:43,671 --> 00:23:47,216
I really love the spaceship
because it's so unusual,
444
00:23:47,299 --> 00:23:51,220
and I think it is to do with the circular
nature of it with the domed ceilings,
445
00:23:51,303 --> 00:23:54,390
and that it's almost cathedral-like
or temple-like.
446
00:23:54,473 --> 00:23:57,559
And the textures of it,
we worked really hard getting it
447
00:23:57,643 --> 00:24:00,020
so that it looked like
the inside of a meteor.
448
00:24:00,104 --> 00:24:01,939
Like, it was really, truly ancient.
449
00:24:02,022 --> 00:24:05,609
We looked at
ancient Babylonian cuneiforms.
450
00:24:05,693 --> 00:24:07,236
We actually made our own.
451
00:24:07,319 --> 00:24:12,366
These say things like, star, moon,
travel, man, Earth, and god.
452
00:24:12,449 --> 00:24:15,286
These correspond exactly to the costumes.
453
00:24:15,369 --> 00:24:20,666
When they stand against this wall, the
power from Arishem creates the costumes.
454
00:24:23,210 --> 00:24:28,757
All the shapes in the costumes
are based in the world of Jack Kirby.
455
00:24:29,550 --> 00:24:33,762
One thing that Chloé discussed a lot
was the circles with the lines
456
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that run through all his imagery.
457
00:24:35,848 --> 00:24:38,225
Because they had been
on Earth for 7,000 years,
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00:24:38,308 --> 00:24:44,773
could the symbols, the shapes on their
bodies have influenced some designs
459
00:24:46,358 --> 00:24:50,195
are the most difficult superhero costumes
I've ever made.
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This room is our exhibition
of the superhero costumes
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and some of the other epochs
within the film.
462
00:25:01,623 --> 00:25:03,292
When I first read the script, I was like,
"Wow! This has got everythin'."
463
00:25:04,168 --> 00:25:06,795
Because when you see the film,
you see it isn't just blue.
464
00:25:06,879 --> 00:25:10,174
We used different type of black,
different type of blue,
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00:25:10,257 --> 00:25:13,761
and oil paint, and then
put them together on a sheet.
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00:25:13,844 --> 00:25:15,804
And then you have to wait for a few days
467
00:25:15,888 --> 00:25:17,973
to naturally see what kind of texture
you get.
468
00:25:18,056 --> 00:25:19,850
Each of these costumes are unique.
469
00:25:19,933 --> 00:25:23,187
It takes many, many experiments,
because on a big screen,
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you can really see all the textures.
471
00:25:24,855 --> 00:25:28,233
There's so many layers on each costume
472
00:25:28,317 --> 00:25:30,068
and they're all done by hand.
473
00:25:30,152 --> 00:25:31,987
It's a big undertaking,
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00:25:32,070 --> 00:25:35,240
and the smallest amount of pieces
on a character was five or six.
475
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Going up to, like, Sprite,
who had 18 pieces on her.
476
00:25:40,037 --> 00:25:43,540
And each one of those pieces
has to be drawn up in the computer,
477
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molded, cast, cleaned up,
edited, paint work.
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00:25:47,377 --> 00:25:49,588
All of our pieces are
incredibly labor intensive.
479
00:25:49,671 --> 00:25:53,175
So, at times, I had seven or eight people
in the work room
480
00:25:53,258 --> 00:25:55,177
just painting these pieces.
481
00:25:55,427 --> 00:26:00,390
And for each of these 10 characters,
we had at least six repeats of costumes.
482
00:26:00,599 --> 00:26:05,395
So, it's really difficult to imagine just
how much work there was in there.
483
00:26:06,146 --> 00:26:10,651
Ajak loves nature
and she is also the leader,
484
00:26:10,734 --> 00:26:12,736
and has the link to the Celestials.
485
00:26:12,819 --> 00:26:15,155
So she has this amazing headdress,
486
00:26:15,239 --> 00:26:18,659
and there's a lot of flowing lines
upwards with her.
487
00:26:18,742 --> 00:26:20,911
Very gold and blue.
488
00:26:20,994 --> 00:26:23,956
And we've got this amazing cape,
which is all hand-painted.
489
00:26:24,039 --> 00:26:26,625
And I was lucky to work with Sammy,
490
00:26:26,708 --> 00:26:29,711
who put a lot of symbolic stuff
into my costume.
491
00:26:29,795 --> 00:26:34,007
There's a mixture of empowerment
and also pride
492
00:26:34,091 --> 00:26:38,220
of being able to wear this costume
that means something important.
493
00:26:38,470 --> 00:26:41,765
Sersi loves humanity,
she's a very giving person.
494
00:26:41,848 --> 00:26:45,519
The color that we gave her
was basically green and silver.
495
00:26:45,602 --> 00:26:50,649
So, she has flowing areas
to make it feminine and soft.
496
00:26:50,732 --> 00:26:54,528
It's not super-structured.
It's a bit more ethereal, really.
497
00:26:54,611 --> 00:26:58,573
And then we've got Ikaris,
who is very much a fighter.
498
00:26:58,657 --> 00:27:03,287
We wanted to get away from the idea that
you've just got a superhero jumpsuit.
499
00:27:03,370 --> 00:27:06,498
And so for him, it's done
in a segmented armor way.
500
00:27:07,457 --> 00:27:12,212
Sprite, she's a thinker.
And it's slightly alabastery,
501
00:27:12,296 --> 00:27:14,172
and a bit of jade going on with hers.
502
00:27:14,256 --> 00:27:17,592
What we decided to do with her was have
a bit of fun with her modern look
503
00:27:17,676 --> 00:27:19,720
and kinda show her as someone
504
00:27:19,803 --> 00:27:22,306
who actually desperately
wants to be more grown up.
505
00:27:22,389 --> 00:27:23,682
So she wears quite quirky
but serious clothes.
506
00:27:23,932 --> 00:27:26,893
Like she was trying to find an identity.
507
00:27:27,227 --> 00:27:30,439
And then, we have Druig.
He's very monastic.
508
00:27:30,522 --> 00:27:32,482
He goes through a very big turning point.
509
00:27:32,566 --> 00:27:35,277
As we go through time with him,
he gets darker and darker.
510
00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:36,820
So his costume is very dark.
511
00:27:36,903 --> 00:27:39,948
It's quite long.
It's very strong in the center.
512
00:27:40,574 --> 00:27:42,451
Then a is a warrior,
but equally, there's also
513
00:27:42,534 --> 00:27:44,202
a fragility about her.
514
00:27:44,328 --> 00:27:47,706
She starts off as this
amazing gold goddess,
515
00:27:47,789 --> 00:27:49,291
and then slowly through time,
516
00:27:49,374 --> 00:27:53,670
she becomes this fragile,
Lacey, very soft,
517
00:27:53,754 --> 00:27:55,505
damaged butterfly in a way.
518
00:27:55,714 --> 00:27:59,342
Gilgamesh is the strongest warrior,
so he's very heavily armored,
519
00:27:59,426 --> 00:28:01,094
and this is quite hard, for him.
520
00:28:03,013 --> 00:28:04,598
So, we had them living in a place
521
00:28:04,681 --> 00:28:08,393
where they sort of stopped in about 1900.
522
00:28:08,477 --> 00:28:11,688
And so, he has very old-looking clothes.
523
00:28:12,230 --> 00:28:13,940
What I love about my costume is
524
00:28:14,024 --> 00:28:17,402
that there is no other costume in
the MCU that looks like this one.
525
00:28:17,486 --> 00:28:20,155
It moves really well. It fits really well.
526
00:28:20,238 --> 00:28:23,950
And it's purple, which has been
my favorite color my whole life.
527
00:28:24,076 --> 00:28:27,579
And I'm sure everybody tells you that
they got teary-eyed when they put it on.
528
00:28:29,414 --> 00:28:31,833
You see the drawings...
It still doesn't really hit you
529
00:28:31,917 --> 00:28:34,086
'cause every time
they showed me the drawings,
530
00:28:34,169 --> 00:28:36,755
I was like, "Is that me? That's not me.
Is that really me?"
531
00:28:36,838 --> 00:28:39,549
We put the costume on him
and he wouldn't look in the mirror.
532
00:28:39,633 --> 00:28:41,301
I just battled with a lot of things
533
00:28:41,384 --> 00:28:44,095
when it came to how I thought
the MCU should look,
534
00:28:44,179 --> 00:28:46,890
and I was really nervous
about how I'd be portrayed.
535
00:28:46,973 --> 00:28:48,809
He was starting to breathe really heavily.
536
00:28:48,892 --> 00:28:51,353
Every time a zipper went up,
or a button went on,
537
00:28:51,436 --> 00:28:53,355
or like I've put my boots on,
538
00:28:53,438 --> 00:28:54,731
I was just like, "Okay!"
539
00:28:54,815 --> 00:28:57,025
They're like,
"Brian, you have to turn and look."
540
00:28:57,108 --> 00:28:58,527
I'm, "I'm really not ready."
541
00:28:58,610 --> 00:29:00,654
I was worried for him,
he said, "No, I'm fine."
542
00:29:00,737 --> 00:29:02,614
So when they finally zipped up the back,
543
00:29:02,697 --> 00:29:04,950
they're, "Okay, you have to
look at yourself."
544
00:29:05,033 --> 00:29:06,034
So I turned around.
545
00:29:06,117 --> 00:29:09,746
And then when he did turn around,
he just screamed.
546
00:29:09,830 --> 00:29:13,458
"Oh, my God! This is incredible."
547
00:29:14,376 --> 00:29:16,545
I just screamed, "Everybody come in here.
548
00:29:16,628 --> 00:29:19,714
"Everybody who had anything to do
with this suit, come in here."
549
00:29:19,798 --> 00:29:22,634
And so, they all came in.
And I just... And I'm...
550
00:29:22,717 --> 00:29:25,095
I'm crying, I am weeping.
551
00:29:25,178 --> 00:29:28,139
"You don't understand
how you just made this little Black boy
552
00:29:28,223 --> 00:29:31,017
"from North Carolina who never
thought in a million years
553
00:29:31,101 --> 00:29:35,313
"that he could stand here and believe
that he was a superhero."
554
00:29:35,397 --> 00:29:37,607
I have to say this from
the bottom of my heart,
555
00:29:37,691 --> 00:29:41,027
every single person that had
anything to do with making this movie,
556
00:29:41,111 --> 00:29:43,238
they're the real heroes, like honestly.
557
00:29:43,321 --> 00:29:45,407
We couldn't be the heroes
we are without them,
558
00:29:45,490 --> 00:29:48,285
and I just want people to know that
when they watch these movies
559
00:29:48,368 --> 00:29:51,830
that there are so many people
that give their time and their effort
560
00:29:51,913 --> 00:29:54,541
to make me feel like a superhero.
561
00:29:55,750 --> 00:29:58,295
My favorite part was seeing
everyone in costume
562
00:29:58,378 --> 00:30:00,422
and all of us just standing in a line.
563
00:30:01,673 --> 00:30:04,259
It just was so exciting to see
everybody in their costumes.
564
00:30:04,342 --> 00:30:06,845
We were all screaming
and getting teary-eyed all day.
565
00:30:06,928 --> 00:30:08,847
I was like,
"Oh, my God! Look!"
566
00:30:08,930 --> 00:30:12,642
When we did all come together,
we were quite moved.
567
00:30:12,726 --> 00:30:13,727
It was really amazing.
568
00:30:13,810 --> 00:30:15,687
It was very windy, it was very dramatic.
569
00:30:15,770 --> 00:30:17,564
Everyone's capes were flying.
570
00:30:17,647 --> 00:30:21,234
There are times in a production
where you get to feel almost like a fan.
571
00:30:21,318 --> 00:30:22,777
And that's really special.
572
00:30:22,861 --> 00:30:25,363
Thank you. Thank you, Eternals!
573
00:30:39,919 --> 00:30:42,213
When I signed up
for this movie, I thought,
574
00:30:42,297 --> 00:30:44,632
"I'll be in a big green box
in the studio somewhere,
575
00:30:44,716 --> 00:30:46,009
"and that's just what this is."
576
00:30:46,092 --> 00:30:48,428
I was wrong. I think I've been in
the studio one day
577
00:30:48,511 --> 00:30:49,971
out of all my days of being here.
578
00:30:50,055 --> 00:30:54,976
Chloé really wanted to use as much
practical settings, sets, as we could,
579
00:30:55,060 --> 00:30:57,145
so we've been on location a lot.
580
00:30:57,228 --> 00:31:00,357
The locations and the geography
is a huge part of the film.
581
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:05,195
It's entwined with it, because it's really
the story of the growth of civilization,
582
00:31:05,278 --> 00:31:08,323
combined with nature
and the way humanity and nature
583
00:31:08,406 --> 00:31:10,408
have evolved alongside each other.
584
00:31:10,492 --> 00:31:12,410
So, we shot a lot around London,
585
00:31:12,494 --> 00:31:15,205
and London was
a Swiss Army knife location for us.
586
00:31:15,288 --> 00:31:17,874
It allowed us to be in North Dakota,
then in Alaska.
587
00:31:17,957 --> 00:31:19,918
It allowed us to be
in the Amazon, surprisingly.
588
00:31:20,001 --> 00:31:22,128
It allowed us to be in
different periods of history.
589
00:31:22,212 --> 00:31:25,131
It was the night shoots where
they'd shut down Camden.
590
00:31:25,215 --> 00:31:27,842
I kind of went, "Wow, this is...
They can do this?
591
00:31:27,926 --> 00:31:31,513
"They can shut down one of the busiest
parts of London for us to film here?"
592
00:31:31,596 --> 00:31:33,640
That's a lot of ambition.
593
00:31:33,723 --> 00:31:36,851
But we also shot a good deal of the film
in Fuerteventura and Lanzarote,
594
00:31:36,935 --> 00:31:38,353
in the Canary Islands,
595
00:31:38,436 --> 00:31:41,147
which is a Spanish-owned island chain
off the coast of Africa.
596
00:31:41,231 --> 00:31:43,358
That gave us a lot of looks
that we hadn't had
597
00:31:43,441 --> 00:31:44,609
in any of our other movies.
598
00:31:44,692 --> 00:31:46,653
And allowed us to
double again, historically,
599
00:31:46,694 --> 00:31:48,530
Yeah, we went to the Canary Islands,
600
00:31:48,613 --> 00:31:51,741
and then we were shooting
Babylon and Mesopotamia,
601
00:31:51,825 --> 00:31:54,744
and we felt like
we are in Mesopotamia.
602
00:31:54,828 --> 00:31:57,205
It looked so real and that is so great.
603
00:31:57,288 --> 00:32:01,459
It was great to be able to actually shoot
on locations and forests and woods
604
00:32:01,543 --> 00:32:05,463
on these black sand beaches,
on volcanic islands.
605
00:32:05,547 --> 00:32:07,882
When you are actually
on a location,
606
00:32:07,966 --> 00:32:10,426
it helps you get into
the reality of things,
607
00:32:10,510 --> 00:32:12,011
as bizarre as they are.
608
00:32:12,095 --> 00:32:14,222
You've never seen places like these.
609
00:32:14,305 --> 00:32:19,060
This is absolutely magical. Magical.
610
00:32:19,143 --> 00:32:21,271
It's spectacular, this landscape.
611
00:32:21,354 --> 00:32:24,566
I've never been around the world
like this on a movie.
612
00:32:24,649 --> 00:32:26,818
This movie is by no means easy.
613
00:32:26,901 --> 00:32:29,904
I don't know if you've been to
Fuerteventura, but there is nothing there.
614
00:32:29,988 --> 00:32:32,657
No diss, but, like, it is an island.
615
00:32:32,740 --> 00:32:35,660
And then we show up at this location,
and it's like rocks,
616
00:32:35,743 --> 00:32:37,370
there used to be volcanoes here.
617
00:32:37,453 --> 00:32:39,789
And then you're on a cliff.
Did I mention that?
618
00:32:39,873 --> 00:32:43,001
There were cliffs on this place,
and you're doing major fight scenes.
619
00:32:43,084 --> 00:32:45,795
And you're climbing over things
and you're doing wire work.
620
00:32:45,879 --> 00:32:47,380
And then there's the beach.
621
00:32:47,463 --> 00:32:50,592
The wind of Fuerteventura is no joke,
you're like in dust.
622
00:32:50,675 --> 00:32:53,845
And black sand does not
come off your body that easily.
623
00:32:54,762 --> 00:32:58,266
It was unbelievable 'cause when I tell you
that we had to band together,
624
00:32:58,349 --> 00:33:01,936
we had to band together, and I think
we got incredibly close at Fuerteventura.
625
00:33:02,020 --> 00:33:05,148
It was fun to all be in the same hotel
'cause we were all having dinner
626
00:33:05,231 --> 00:33:07,233
and seeing each other and hanging out.
627
00:33:07,317 --> 00:33:10,612
I think being on location
really helps you feel it more
628
00:33:10,695 --> 00:33:12,280
and just be more in the moment.
629
00:33:12,697 --> 00:33:16,618
You want the audience to not only
to see the character,
630
00:33:16,701 --> 00:33:20,204
you wanna see the character in
relationship to the world behind them.
631
00:33:20,288 --> 00:33:23,291
It's very difficult to make that
feel real on a stage.
632
00:33:23,374 --> 00:33:26,919
So, going to a location was
a very natural progression.
633
00:33:27,754 --> 00:33:31,507
And it's exciting for our
visual effect supervisor, Steph Ceretti.
634
00:33:31,591 --> 00:33:33,134
He always wanted to capture
635
00:33:33,217 --> 00:33:36,554
as many real
and natural elements as possible.
636
00:33:36,638 --> 00:33:40,558
Actually, for us, it's more interesting
to have to deal with real material
637
00:33:40,642 --> 00:33:44,979
that comes with all the things
you can't control, really.
638
00:33:45,855 --> 00:33:49,150
And that makes the film
a bit more real in that sense.
639
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:54,155
Chloé uses our personalities
and our diversity
640
00:33:54,781 --> 00:33:58,534
in a seamless way in the film
that it's unifying,
641
00:33:59,035 --> 00:34:03,456
and it makes you feel part
of something really special.
642
00:34:05,041 --> 00:34:07,460
I never imagined that I would
ever be part of the MCU,
643
00:34:07,543 --> 00:34:09,754
especially, as like a superhero.
644
00:34:10,922 --> 00:34:13,591
I had some friends who got to be
in 'em in different parts
645
00:34:13,674 --> 00:34:16,386
and I was like, "Oh, man,
I just wanna be a guy who
646
00:34:16,469 --> 00:34:18,596
"fixes Captain America's computer
or something."
647
00:34:18,679 --> 00:34:23,851
And now to actually be in this,
it's pretty great.
648
00:34:24,394 --> 00:34:27,271
To be able to be a part
of a film by Marvel
649
00:34:27,355 --> 00:34:30,483
that has the most diversity
that we've ever seen
650
00:34:30,566 --> 00:34:34,445
in any superhero movie of all time.
651
00:34:34,654 --> 00:34:38,991
I think it's exciting. I think it really
shows the scope of the film,
652
00:34:39,075 --> 00:34:40,118
and it's global.
653
00:34:40,201 --> 00:34:42,245
You see this great mix of people
654
00:34:42,328 --> 00:34:45,415
from lots of different backgrounds
and cultures.
655
00:34:45,498 --> 00:34:48,042
I think it really enriches
the story that we're telling
656
00:34:48,126 --> 00:34:50,586
because it really is an epic global story.
657
00:34:51,337 --> 00:34:54,674
as superheroes, what a special thing.
658
00:34:55,216 --> 00:34:57,760
It's interesting because I never
in a million years thought
659
00:34:57,844 --> 00:34:59,137
I'd be a part of the MCU.
660
00:34:59,220 --> 00:35:02,557
What I like about what Chloé did
is that she really took us as is.
661
00:35:03,099 --> 00:35:06,352
I know that
I'm not the standard Marvel aesthetic,
662
00:35:06,435 --> 00:35:09,021
but Chloé, she was like,
"No, that is the point.
663
00:35:09,105 --> 00:35:10,940
"Like, you are that.
664
00:35:11,023 --> 00:35:13,776
"We need these people
to reflect everyday people,
665
00:35:13,860 --> 00:35:15,611
"'cause anyone can be a superhero."
666
00:35:15,695 --> 00:35:17,530
I love that because people going into this
667
00:35:17,613 --> 00:35:20,366
have their own concept of
what they think Marvel should be,
668
00:35:20,449 --> 00:35:22,493
and how Marvel should look like,
should sound.
669
00:35:22,577 --> 00:35:25,454
And, what we're doin' is,
we're gonna smash all that
670
00:35:25,538 --> 00:35:29,417
and just give people a sense to know
that they can see themselves up there.
671
00:35:29,417 --> 00:35:31,419
You do not turn against your family.
672
00:35:31,502 --> 00:35:35,715
The film actually becomes very much
a celebration of planet Earth,
673
00:35:35,798 --> 00:35:37,842
and a celebration of humanity.
674
00:35:38,801 --> 00:35:41,679
We are learning about
what it means to be mortal,
675
00:35:41,762 --> 00:35:43,347
what it means to be a human being
676
00:35:43,431 --> 00:35:46,517
that has a very limited amount
of time in this universe.
677
00:35:49,353 --> 00:35:55,401
but we are the most powerful when we
come together towards helping this planet.
678
00:35:57,737 --> 00:36:00,990
It's a beautiful message. When we all
come together, we're all stronger,
679
00:36:01,073 --> 00:36:03,993
and that's when we can
actually make an impact.
680
00:36:05,536 --> 00:36:08,706
This film is going to have
a big effect on the future of the MCU
681
00:36:08,706 --> 00:36:11,292
that I was able to make a film that could
ripple through the MCU like this.
682
00:36:12,877 --> 00:36:15,129
I feel like, for me,
throughout the journey,
683
00:36:15,212 --> 00:36:19,634
Kevin, Nate, and the whole team,
they catch me when I fall.
684
00:36:20,384 --> 00:36:24,138
When I'm spreading my wings and going
crazy, they're letting me loose.
685
00:36:25,556 --> 00:36:26,974
I learned so much from them.
686
00:36:27,058 --> 00:36:29,685
I'm just so grateful
they gave me this opportunity
687
00:36:29,769 --> 00:36:34,148
to not only pay tribute and respect
of the past of MCU,
688
00:36:34,482 --> 00:36:38,235
but also extend the MCU into the future.
689
00:36:42,198 --> 00:36:44,367
And that, for me, is an honor.