Marvel Studios D23 Interviews | Brie Larson, Charlie Cox, David Harbour, Don Cheadle
Watch our interviews with the stars of the MCU including Brie Larson, Iman Vellani, Teyona Parris, and Nia DaCosta of “The Marvels,” Tenoch Huerta of “Wakanda Forever,” Don Cheadle of “Secret Invasion,” David Harbour of “Thunderbolts,” Charlie Cox of “Daredevil: Born Again,” Gael García Bernal, Michael Giacchino, and Laura Donnelly of “Werewolf by Night” and Director Julius Onah of “Captain America: New World Order.” Are you ready for the next stage of the MCU?
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00:00 Oh, I know, I haven't read anything about it. What are the theories?
00:02 Well, they're saying like, you know, the Negabands were, you know, they switch guys and places.
00:06 Some people think you transform from Kamala.
00:09 It's interesting, interesting theories.
00:11 Interesting things.
00:13 I'm excited. Well, how do I say things without saying things?
00:28 I'm excited about people seeing the relationship between these women because they are all incredibly
00:33 different, different skill sets, different ways of communicating.
00:38 And I like watching people learn how to work together as a team.
00:41 I mean, that's what I do when I make movies.
00:42 It's like, it's a group of people working together as a team.
00:44 And so it feels like in this film, you get to have this opportunity to see a group of
00:49 women come together, work together.
00:50 And it's also going to be really fun.
00:53 For me, was that I was like, what's it look like?
00:58 How is, Nia, what is happening?
01:00 It was just, I had to completely surrender to the process of not knowing.
01:07 And actually, you know, sometimes they would have, what's those visuals?
01:10 A previs and stuff.
01:10 A previs for me to see, which would be helpful.
01:14 But for the most part, really imagining, going off what Nia said, and then trying to imagine
01:20 and make it real for myself.
01:22 That was the most fun and also challenging part of it.
01:26 Well, I tried as much as possible to have concept art or previs to show that's like,
01:30 this is what we're thinking of.
01:30 It might change.
01:31 The thing I love about Marvel is that it just, they keep ideating and it's blessing and
01:37 blessing, making things better and better and better.
01:38 So things might be one thing one year and the next year, still working on the movie,
01:41 and it's completely different.
01:42 So I just try my best to be open.
01:43 Like, listen, I'm going to give you everything I know, and that's the best I can do because
01:47 this is bigger than all of us.
01:48 But it's so fun to come up with that stuff.
01:50 I love that stuff.
01:51 I'm a really big nerd for that power set shit.
01:53 So it was so cool, especially with Monica's powers, because it was like, Kamala's is established
01:57 in Ms. Marvel.
01:58 Carol Brees has been established since time immemorial.
02:04 And then with Monica, we really got to talk about, OK, which of her thousands of powers
02:08 in the comics do we want to make canon and then see it?
02:11 Well, you know there's a part in the comics where she realizes she's immortal, she freaks
02:14 out, and then she goes intangible in water and her atoms scatter across the ocean.
02:19 And it takes her forever to put herself back together.
02:22 She's insane.
02:24 So it's like you have so much to choose from.
02:25 Anyway, we didn't do that.
02:27 Nia DaCosta is a powerhouse of a woman.
02:31 I think she's literally the only person who could have directed a movie like this.
02:34 She really tries to find those nuances and action scenes even, and really fleshing out
02:39 the characters and allowing women to feel things.
02:42 They have emotions, and they have feelings, and they need to overcome it in order to overcome
02:46 everything in the plot.
02:47 So yeah, we really worked together in bringing all those really deep emotions out of all
02:52 of our characters.
02:53 And Nia is the person for the job.
02:55 This character really was something that I thought I just found and no one else knew
02:59 about.
02:59 And now the entire world knows about it.
03:01 And she's getting a movie with Brie Larson and Tiana Paris.
03:05 And yeah, all of Kamala's dreams are coming true.
03:08 And I'm so happy.
03:10 But the pressure is just to do your best.
03:12 Do it the best way possible.
03:16 And all the team, all the production, they were really careful with creating this world.
03:23 They made the research.
03:25 They have a lot of people giving all the information.
03:30 They create not just the costume, the makeup, everything.
03:36 Everything is so accurate and beautiful.
03:38 And for me, it was easier.
03:40 You know?
03:41 It's like everybody, everybody do their job.
03:45 So you just have to arrive and do your best because everybody is playing in the same team.
03:52 Yeah.
03:52 Do you know what I mean?
03:53 You just went through an incredible transformation for Stranger Things 4.
03:56 And I'm wondering, are they making you transform again for Red Garden?
03:59 Oh, I'm happy to get there as we can pan down to my waistline.
04:03 I'm kidding.
04:04 Don't.
04:04 I'm happy to eat the cheeseburgers and the chocolate cake.
04:07 Be back on that diet.
04:08 I mean, we'll see where Alexei ends up kind of as he begins this Thunderbolts movie.
04:14 You know, he's, I think he's out of, yeah, right.
04:18 He's out of prison.
04:19 And I think a lot of his stress eating came from the depression of being in a Russian gulag.
04:24 So he's out.
04:28 He's, you know, probably working out again.
04:30 No, we'll see.
04:31 I mean, it'll be a, it's always a fun thing to physically carve out a character as you
04:36 begin to work on them.
04:37 And so the, the, Alexei has a lot of room to grow and we'll have to see where he, where
04:43 he starts out with this movie.
04:44 But I don't want to ruin anything, but it's, it's, it'll be fun.
04:46 What's the likelihood of you getting to don the suit again?
04:49 Was it completely?
04:50 It's been years.
04:51 Yeah.
04:51 It'd been years.
04:52 Like, so I put the suit on in, for the last time in 2000, I didn't know it at the time,
04:57 but it was in 2017.
04:58 And I, and Kevin called me in 2020, you know, like, and I was joking earlier on, like all
05:04 that time, Vincent and I would chat and he, and he was convinced they were going to call
05:08 us.
05:08 And I was like, buddy, he's like, you're delusional.
05:11 It's over.
05:12 It's been over for a long time.
05:14 We are not like, we're not playing as characters anymore.
05:17 It's like, they're going to call us.
05:19 I'm always surprised to learn things that come up in the Marvel world that we don't
05:23 know until we get the script.
05:24 And I think that's part of the fun that, you know, they really keep mixing it up.
05:30 They keep challenging themselves to push and go further.
05:34 And I think Secret Invasion is a great example of that.
05:37 And also what it's going to, you know, launch into Armored Wars.
05:39 I think it's the same kind of thing, a lot of surprises, a lot of new characters mixed
05:44 with older characters that are going to come back and keep moving this thing forward.
05:48 So I just think Marvel has done a great job, you know, under the sort of guidance of Kevin
05:53 Feige to keep everything fresh and exciting.
05:55 I wonder, do you have any words to the naysayers who still don't accept it?
06:00 You know, any message to those kind of detractors in the world?
06:03 First of all, wait till you watch this movie.
06:05 But secondly, you know, I think for anybody who questions why somebody like Anthony Mackie
06:12 or Sam Wilson should be at the center of this, it's going back to actually what Captain
06:18 America stands for.
06:19 It's so beautiful to have a character who stands for what is right and to think of a
06:24 world in which everybody gets to be a part of it.
06:26 It's unquestionable that that is right.
06:29 That's exactly what Captain America is about.
06:31 So there really isn't anything to detract.
06:33 There's only things to celebrate, and all those people should feel invited to celebrate
06:37 that.
06:38 All right.
06:38 Do you have a shield at home?
06:39 Do you own one?
06:40 Shield's right here in my heart.
06:42 I love kind of how weird we're getting in the MCU these days with the supernatural,
06:47 you know what I mean?
06:48 What do you think is going to surprise fans about the supernatural world that you're
06:52 kind of introducing to audiences maybe in this special project?
06:56 I think what we're doing is saying, guess what?
06:58 Monsters are real and they're among us and they're around and we're going to
07:03 explore what that means.
07:04 They actually live alongside of everything else going on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
07:12 So that's a really fun sort of tease to put out there.
07:16 Where it goes?
07:17 I don't know.
07:17 We'll see.
07:18 But that's what we're saying.
07:20 There is also heart in these stories, and I think that that will surprise people.
07:24 My favorite of all the monster movies and the old horror movies were the ones that had
07:28 heart in them, like Frankenstein.
07:30 The ones that really made you feel something other than just the horror part of it.
07:35 And it should have both and this definitely does.
07:37 Is there any chance we're going to see a beatdown with Moon Knight at any point?
07:40 Man, this Moon Knight.
07:43 We have to ask him.
07:44 He's becoming, yeah, exactly.
07:47 You're starting to actually...
07:48 I had no problems before with Moon Knight, but now it starts to kind of build something.
07:54 Has he been saying things?
07:56 Yeah, he's been saying so many bad things.
07:59 Yeah, he's like, "Oh, werewolf."
08:01 Yeah, it's so crazy.
08:02 But which side of him?
08:03 Weirdly, it was just Oscar Isaac.
08:07 Okay, okay.
08:09 It sounds like Oscar.
08:10 Okay, that makes sense.