But she really wanted to do something different, and Marvel really wanted her to do that and allowed that. I then found out she was a fan of the MCU. And hopefully, we’ve managed to do that in the movie.Ĭhan: I had seen her work and was a fan, so I was just really interested to find out what she wanted to do. So it was always going to be a huge task to somehow wrangle us all into one family. We all have different backgrounds and are very different people. It was just really interesting to watch her as a filmmaker and how she operates and to kind of feed off of that and see how it works with 10 very different actors. So we were just getting to know our director who I’d not had any experience with. Madden: We were just getting to know Chloé. Was there a moment early on in production when the two of you first recognized why Chloé has the reputation that she has? How do they make each other laugh? How do they push each other’s buttons? So it was great to be able to do it with someone that I know so well. We just really tried to find those grounded moments.
As Richard said, we tried to find some moments of truth and intimacy amongst all the crazy spectacle, time jumps and everything else that you get in a film like this. I found something quite beautiful in that and it was interesting to explore it with one of my oldest friends. They keep coming back to each other, and they’ve been through everything together. I found the idea of two characters who are pretty different actually, but are drawn to one another, really interesting. How do you do that? How can you really put yourselves in the shoes of people who have been on and off for 5,000 years? ( Laughs.) So you have to just try and relate it to your own experiences.
So I think we just tried to explore that delicately from the start and work out how to bring some honesty to a 5,000-year relationship. It’s a really beautiful love story to explore. We talked about the concept of people who’ve been in love for that long and have seen everything and done everything and why they keep coming back and finding joy within each other. Richard Madden: I wouldn’t say we charted it out. Did you get together early on to chart out this 5,000-year relationship and to also understand how each other works? So the two of you have history together, and your characters also have some major history together. In a recent conversation with THR, Chan and Madden also discussed Zhao’s signature use of natural light and how it impacts their performance, and reflected on the shooting days that they’ll never forget. To do scenes like that can be quite a vulnerable thing, so I felt lucky that I was with my friend.”
“I could feel that we had each other’s backs in that scene. “It helped that Richard and I have a trust with each other and a history,” Chan says. While shooting the scene, Chan was especially thankful for her shared history with Madden, as the two actors have known each other for at least a decade.
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Marvel is attempting to address such criticism, having promised that upcoming shows in Phase 4 of the MCU will feature prominent queer superheroes. However, Eternals' director Chloe Zhao said that she and Marvel had discussed the matter and did not wish to censor the gay scenes in the movie for international audiences.ĭisney has been criticised for the lack of LGBTQ characters in its movies. In 2019, Disney also cut a same-sex kiss between two minor female characters for the theatrical release of Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker in Singapore to preserve its PG13 rating.
The agency said at the time, "This is in breach of the Free-to-Air TV Programme Code which disallows programmes that promote, justify or glamourise gay lifestyles." In 2008, MediaCorp TV Channel 5 was fined by the then Media Development Authority for an episode that "normalise(d) and promote(d) a gay lifestyle. Representatives from Disney, Marvel Studios' parent company, declined to comment for this story.