While promoting his role in a Marvel movie, Kit Harington confesses that his desires reveals a lot about him.
“That’s so you!”
Eternals director Chloe Zhao is roasting Kit Harington, one of the many famous actors in her Marvel film, after the Game of Thrones star cheekily gave an answer that even he admits, “says a lot about me”.
The question was which of the 10 Eternals’ superpowers would they want for themselves?
“In my heart of hearts,” Harington says with a wry smile, moments before Zhao’s playful admonishment. “I want to be Druig.”
Played by Barry Keoghan, Druig is one of the Eternals, a group of immortal beings who have been on Earth for 7000 years. Each have their own power, such as Gilgamesh’s enhanced strength, Ikaris’ flight and laser eyes and Sersi’s ability to change the structure of all non-living objects.
Druig? Well, Druig can control people’s minds – crudely put, he can brainwash humans.
“That’s the kind of manipulative person I am,” Harington continues. “Or Sprite. They’re both tricksters. Isn’t that odd? That says a lot about me, I think.”
Zhao, who says she wants to be Ikaris – “I’m so boring, I’ve been wanting to fly my whole life” – chuckles and knowingly points her thumb towards Harington with the promise, “Dane Whitman is not who you think”.
Harington’s character Dane Whitman has a small part in the sprawling Eternals, a Marvel epic tasked with introducing almost a dozen new superheroes into a narrative universe already teeming with them – and their millennia-old backstory.
But even though Harington’s journey in the MCU starts in the studio’s 26th movie, which also stars Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie and Kumail Nanjiani, it’s not going to end there.
Dane Whitman has a complex character history of his own in the Marvel comics, and one which is only hinted at in the studio’s 26th movie. Suffice to say, you don’t cast Harington in a bit role with no eventual pay off.
Harington got a call from producer Nate Moore, who pitched him the character and set up the meeting with Zhao.
“[We] met up in Notting Hill and had a cup of tea,” Harington says. “We bonded over some tea, because we’re from two great tea-drinking nations.”
Zhao interjects playfully, “English-style, but mine is greater”.
Harington laughs and then gestures to the room full of people – agents, publicists and production folk – off-camera, challenging Zhao while “in a room full of English-tea drinkers”.
The Chinese director reminds her actor that her country gave the English tea. He acquiesces on that point.
Zhao won the Directing and Picture Oscars this year for Nomadland, her third film in an oeuvre that had, thus-far, been grounded, naturalistic and emotionally intimate, which is not exactly the vibe of Marvel superhero movies.
She was four days from starting principal photography on Nomadland when she was got the official offer from Marvel.
“I was in a frontier cabin in South Dakota, and they called me and I screamed and ran up and down the little cabin,” she recalls. “I think [Nomadland star and producer Frances McDormand] probably looked at me and said, ‘Finish this one first!’.”
Eternals is not what you expect would be Zhao’s fourth film, and Zhao is not the director you’d expect Marvel to tap.
But she insists that while the budgets and scale between her independent features and Eternals are vastly different, the filmmaking fundamentals remains similar.
“If you pay close attention, even when a Celestial is creating the sun, the camera is very grounded, it moves exactly the same way as it did in Nomadland, it’s just one man in a rolling gimble, moving forward.
“That’s probably one of the toughest things to do in a film of this scale for a visual effects artist, for a stunt co-ordinator, for an actor, because it means whatever happens within the frame has to be exciting enough.”
There’s certainly a lot of excitement within the frames Zhao and cinematographer Ben Davis shot, and a lot of it was exteriors on location. The natural environments imbue a timelessness and naturalism to a movie that risks being dominated by CGI monsters.
When the Eternals weren’t dressed in their superhero outfits, when they were just speaking to each other, it could’ve been one of Zhao’s earlier films, such as The Rider, a quiet drama about an injured rodeo cowboy.
It will surprise many to learn that Zhao found the experience of working with Marvel akin to making an indie.
“I’d heard this thing about Marvel, and I hoped it would be true and it turned out to be true, that they’re actually very different from more traditional studios in Hollywood,” she says. “They’re a very small group of people, three or four, tops, and that’s about how many people you interact with for two to three years, and that turned out to be true.
“Which makes me feel like I’m still making independent films.”
No stranger to a big-budget blockbuster franchise after his years on Game of Thrones, Harington was still surprised by his first Marvel experience, but largely due to Zhao’s insistence on shooting as much of the film as possible on location.
“I thought I was going to be walking into a big, green box in a studio and I would have to imagine everything around me,” he explains. “And what really happened was on this movie, we were on location.
“All of my stuff was on location. They closed down Camden Town for us in London, that’s incredible. All I had to imagine was the [CGI monster] Deviant. Everything else was done for me and around me, and that’s not what I expected a Marvel movie to be.
“And that’s thanks to Chloe and thanks to Marvel, that’s what’s unique about this film. That’s where they wanted to take this film.”
Eternals is in cinemas from Thursday, November 4
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