Hey Kit, how are you doing?
Hi, Scott, how are you? I'm good, thank you.
I'm good. Thank you. Congratulations on the film.
Thank you very much.
one of the great things about doing a Marvel film, aside from
lots of people seeing it, is that you get to read
lots and lots of comic books, which are, for me,
that sounds like an amazing, amazing thing.
Did they give you?
I suppose they gave you a breadth of what the Eternals
was, was what your character was, so you could go home and research it.
That must be a fun thing that you don't always get to do.
They did.
You know what the way that this sort of kind of landed on my desk anyway was, was
Nate [Moore], the producer ringing up
and telling me who the character was and,
you know, giving me some idea of a possible trajectory for him,
but really explaining here he was in this movie and saying, Look,
if you want to go and do your research about who he is in the comics,
you know his his name, go go and do it.
And I chose to do a bit,
but not a huge amount because of trying to stay.
I always think it best to stay present in these things.
This could be my my one Marvel venture.
You know, I've no idea whether I go on and do more after this. So
after doing a bit of digging on the internet, I kind of,
you know, resorted back to Dane
Whitman, the human who works at a natural history museum.
Indeed, indeed.
And also, I mean, Marvel obviously transport us
to these amazing places, particularly this film.
It's very cosmic,
but you get to have a say in Camden Town, which is pretty, pretty fun.
Tell me about shooting that scene
because I felt like in the last couple of weeks
with [Edgar Wright's] Last Night in Soho and a few other films
that I'm kind of walking through my journey
to work every single day and see all these amazing things.
What was it like for you in that particular scene in Camden?
Because you were really there, really doing most of it?
Yeah, I do.
It was funny.
They were like this this movie shoot all across the universe
and we go to every different corner of the Earth and your bits shoot in Camden. No,
I was thrilled.
I was like, I'm 20 minutes from home.
I can roll out of bed and turn up to a Marvel set.
Set at the fact they shot down Camden High Street even at night was kind of cool.
And I, you know, like you, I you know, I spent a lot of my youth in Camden.
I went to drama school just up the road.
It's where we used to go out.
So and you used to go out with Richard [Madden] and Gemma [Chan].
So to be there on on Camden
Bridge at two in the morning
and sort of doing a Marvel movie was was kind of wonderfully bizarre.
Yeah. Not doing what you would normally do at 2:00 a.m.
on theCamden Bridge
I guess it was a different 2:00 a.m. from years gone past.
Yeah.
I know. So you get to work
with someone amazing like like Chloe [Zhao], who obviously just won an Academy Award.
Such a visionary director, she's
so into, you know, character and building building the world.
So she's perfect for Marvel.
What was that experience like for you working for her?
Did you see the kind of appeal was the why of so many people want to work with her?
Yeah, I did, absolutely.
I mean, before taking the role and met with her and spoke to her about this.
And it just it was very apparent how much she knew about the Marvel Universe.
You know, she she comes from a background of
of real arthouse movie making, but she knows Marvel better than anyone.
And that made me feel like I was in safe hands
and really interesting hands for this for this film.
Yeah.
You know, she she shot
this true to her instincts
and in a very kind of freeing way for actors like it wasn't
it wasn't very kind of stuck stationary cameras where you have to hit a mark and stay there.
It was a roving camera technique that she uses and all of her films,
and that gave it a level of freedom
that I really enjoyed.
In terms of.
Obviously, the Game of Thrones
obviously was a big franchise, now moving into Marvel.
Do you enjoy kind of doing the big franchise?
as well as doing the smaller stuff that you get to do because,
you know, these these movies are kind of all encompassing as his Game of Thrones.
I, you know, I imagine it's it's fun to kind of do both.
Do you enjoy of doing both at the
that you get kind of dip your toe into into different things?
I like I've realized in doing this what the appeal was in
many ways is that I, you know, I come from a theatrical background.
I still do a lot of theater and I like being part of an ensemble.
I like being part of a cast,
a big cast.
And as far as the MCU, you know, as big
as ensembles get,
thrones was like that, you know?
And I think there was an element of missing it.
You know, I want to.
This looks like a great ensemble to be part of.
Why wouldn't I go and do that?
Yeah, amazing cast as well.
I mean, I know you don't get to share not to give anything away.
You don't share with all the characters, but it must have been a thrill to
to see all of them together on screen when you saw the film
for the for the first time.
It really was.
And unlike any cast I'd seen before
and when I looked to the I was late into being cast in this movie
and I looked at the cast list and I looked at
the names there.
I thought, Yeah, this is unique.
This is the way it should be.
And I want to be part of that.
Absolutely. Thank you for your time.
Bye bye.