You definitely notice how your whole demeanor and everything just changes."ĭruig is aloof and a bit of a loner, but in real life, Keoghan quickly hit it off with his costars. As soon as you put the boots on your posture transforms. It's a weird feeling to see yourself like that. "When I arrived and put it on for the first time, it was kind of nice to walk out and see the rest of the cast's reaction. "I was the last one to get into costume," he recalls of his first day on set. The Irish Keoghan, known for his roles in Dunkirk and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, plays Druig, an Eternal with the ability to manipulate other people's thoughts.
More and more people are starting to see themselves in that universe, and that's powerful." "They're offering a way for us to hope, to be able to get up and keep going and fight for what's important. "It makes so much sense to have this diversity and representation within the MCU because what the MCU is offering the world is amazing," Ridloff says. Makkari is also the first deaf hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Ridloff says she's particularly excited for audiences to see a deaf actress in a major heroic role. So I focused mostly on building muscle, especially my legs." "I was like, excuse me, stop running? Really what they wanted to do was focus on building the symmetry of somebody who looks like a sprinter, and they tend to be a bit more muscular. "The ironic part about this is when I started training for the role, I was told to stop running," she says, laughing. To play the super-fast Eternal Makkari, Ridloff (known for The Walking Dead) threw herself into training - just not the kind of training she was expecting. So to be able to do an homage to the genre of movies that I loved and grew up watching was really special."
I knew every Bollywood movie until like the late '90s. So it was very challenging, but I know that if we could pull this off and capture the joy and excitement of a Bollywood dance number in a Marvel movie, that would be special - because I grew up watching Bollywood movies. I had to take months and months of classes to do this. (As an Eternal, he also has the power to manipulate energy with his hands.) Nanjiani trained extensively to get in superhero shape, and to capture Kingo's joyful, effortless fight style, he went back and watched old Errol Flynn movies and some of the original Zorro films - "just a lot of old school Hollywood stars whose characters really enjoyed fighting," he explains.īut his perhaps his biggest challenge was preparing for a scene where Kingo performs an elaborate Bollywood dance number. Most of the other Eternals have tried to stay under the radar through the centuries, but Nanjiani's Kingo has done the opposite, making a living as a Bollywood star. It was nice not finding blue paint in my crevices, weeks later." "I have to say that was somewhat of a relief. "The obvious difference is that I didn't have to do four hours every morning, getting the blue makeup on," she says with a laugh.
Interestingly, this isn't Chan's first appearance in a Marvel movie: She previously starred in 2019's Captain Marvel as Starforce sharpshooter Minn-Erva.
"She's a little bit of a free spirit and just loves being amongst humans." "She's interesting because she is this immortal being, but she's very grounded as well," Chan says. She also has a long romantic history with Richard Madden's Ikaris (more on him below). Unlike some of the Eternals, Sersi has a real love and respect for humanity, and in the present day, she's working as a museum curator and dating a human (Dane Whitman, played by Game of Thrones' Kit Harington). "She can change things, and she's sort of helped humanity along the way, in little ways," Chan explains. Much of Eternals' story centers on Sersi, who has the ability to manipulate non-sentient matter.