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which premieres Wednesday.In ET's first look at the Marvel series' new episode, Skrull leader Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir) heads up a shady backroom meeting with a roundtable of world leaders. «I see you, all dressed up in the man's finery, drinking the man's wine, playing the man's game, using the man's fork and knife,» he observes cooly, hinting that the assembled leaders may also be Skrulls in disguise.«Better to behave as a human than as a dog,» one fires back.«I quite like dogs. In fact, I prefer 'em,» Gravik replies. «Dogs aren't hypocrites.

Game of Thrones actor Emilia Clarke has said she “almost ran over” her Secret Invasion co-star Samuel L. Jackson while filming the new Marvel show.The show – which premiered on Disney+ last week – sees Clarke play the character of G’iah while Jackson reprises his role as Nick Fury. Ben Mendelsohn also appears in the show, reprising his Captain Marvel role as the alien Talos.In a new interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Clarke recalled the on-set near-miss.She explained: “They put me in a Lada, which is like a very old Russian car…And I got in and I was like, ‘Hey, what’s with the six [shift knobs] up in here? Which one am I using? Why does it have 10 pedals?’“It’s [like] a tractor…I know how to drive.

Sophia Scorziello editor In the opening of Tina and Ike Turner’s rendition of Creedance Clearwater’s “Proud Mary,” Tina gives a disclaimer to the audience: “Every now and then I think you might like to hear something from us nice and easy, but there’s just one thing, you see: we never ever do nothing nice and easy.” When Angela Bassett took on the task of portraying Turner in 1993 for “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” she took that to heart. In the 30 days between landing the role and the first day of shooting, Bassett worked 16-hour days, exercising each morning before learning dance numbers with Turner and choreographer Michael Peters. Bassett also worked with her co-star Laurence Fishburne to act scenes depicting the violence and domestic abuse that Tina endured through her marriage. It was anything but nice and easy.

Samuel L. Jackson is speaking out on behalf of Brie Larson.

Emilia Clarke is making her debut within the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the newly released Secret Invasion on Disney+, and she’s opening up about a near-miss that took place while filming the show.

Cobie Smulders is opening up about Maria Hill’s fate following the first episode of Marvel’s Secret Invasion.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments in the series premiere of Marvel Studios’ “Secret Invasion,” currently streaming on Disney+. Since her first appearance as Maria Hill in 2012’s “The Avengers,” Cobie Smulders has popped into the Marvel Cinematic Universe roughly half-dozen times, racing into danger and cheating death as the hyper-competent lieutenant to Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), most recently in 2019’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home.” So when Marvel started planning the Disney+ series “Secret Invasion” — about how the shape-shifting Skrulls from the 2019’s prequel film “Captain Marvel” have turned against Fury and started infiltrating all levels of human society — it made perfect sense for Maria to show up, too.

Actor Dermot Mulroney, promoting his new Disney+ Marvel series Secret Invasion, walked off the set of ABC’s The View in an episode airing today, expressing his support for striking WGA writers.

Based on Samuel L. Jackson‘s stories, Marvel really is one of the most secure organizations on the planet.

Disney+ series, confessed that he has strict boundaries for AI.“People just started worrying about that? I asked about that a long time ago. The first time I got scanned for George Lucas, I was like, ‘What’s this for?'” he told Rolling Stone, referencing his role in the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy.“George and I are good friends, so we kind of had a laugh about it because I thought he was doing it because he had all those old guys in ‘Episode I,’ and if something happened to them, he still wanted to put ’em in the movie,” Jackson admitted.He also shared that being “scanned” has now become common practice at Marvel Studios.“Ever since I’ve been in the Marvel Universe, every time you change costumes in a Marvel movie, they scan you,” Jackson said.

Warning: This story contains spoilers about the plot of Secret Invasion season 1.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Samuel L. Jackson revealed in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly that his watermarked script for “The Avengers” was stolen from Marvel Studios’ production offices, leading the company to set up a fake buy after the stolen screenplay popped up online for sale. Marvel has since gone on to beef up its security protocols, even going as far as shooting down drones that fly over their production lots hoping to capture set photos and footage. “They shot one down,” Jackson said. “And they followed one back to where the dude was. They found him and, yeah, they got him.” “There are worse examples than that,” Jackson added. “I remember when we got ready to do ‘Avengers,’ someone printed out a copy of my ‘Avengers’ script that had my watermark on it, and put it online for sale. I was shooting in Canada and Marvel came to Canada. It had been printed in the production office… They found out who it was, dude quit, left the country. They set up a fake buy for the script, dude didn’t show up. It was crazy.”

Rolling Stone.Sam and Brie first met on the "Kong: Skull Island" set, which was released in 2017."We had done 'Kong' together, which was not the most wonderful experience for either of us. We became great friends during that particular experience because we were having such a hard time," he recalled. Soon after, the frequent costars appeared together in Brie's directorial debut in 2017's "Unicorn Store.""When she was doing 'Unicorn Store' and trying to get a particular actor, I was in the makeup trailer with her and was like, 'Why are you trying to hire this other actor and not trying to get me to do your movie?'" Sam recalled asking.

Samuel L. Jackson has addressed the past online hate campaigns and backlash to Brie Larson’s casting as Captain Marvel.Ahead of the film’s release in 2019, Larson was targeted with online sexist abuse and review bomb campaigns in an attempt to tank the film’s success.Jackson, who first met Larson while filming 2017’s Kong: Skull Island before she cast him in her directorial debut Unicorn Store, explained in a Rolling Stone interview how she consulted him on whether she should join the Marvel Cinematic Universe.“We bonded through the election while we were doing her movie when Donald Trump won,” Jackson recalled.

Samuel L. Jackson is sticking up for his “Captain Marvel” co-star.

The latest Marvel series is drawing some unexpected controversy.

Samuel L. Jackson has no tolerance for online trolls attacking his Marvel costar and friend, Brie Larson.

As Nick Fury's righthand woman, Cobie Smulders' Maria Hill has been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the very first film back in 2012. And while the character has undergone something of a style evolution in the years since, she's remained a constant part of S.H.I.E.L.D. command.«From the spandex and stiletto high heels to combat boots and blue jeans,» Smulders joked with ET's Ash Crossan at the premiere for Marvel's latest limited series, «I blipped, I came back, I'm not wearing heels.»Within the on-screen world of the MCU, Hill and Fury (Samuel L.

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the first episode of the Disney+ series Secret Invasion.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Marvel’s “Secret Invasion” is causing a stir on social media after one of the series’ executive producers, Ali Selim, confirmed to Polygon that artificial intelligence was used to create the series’ opening credits sequence. Selim explained the decision to use AI felt right given the plot of “Secret Invasion,” which follows Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) as he uncovers shape-shifting Skrulls who have gained positions of power across the Earth by appearing as human world leaders. The opening credits, designed by Method Studios, is a montage of moving paintings that depict the Skrulls’ invasion of Earth. “When we reached out to the AI vendors, that was part of it — it just came right out of the shape-shifting, Skrull world identity, you know? Who did this? Who is this?” Selim said, while also admitting he doesn’t “really understand” how AI works.

interview with Rolling Stone, adding they bonded during the election and Trump’s win broke her.Jackson, who plays Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has paired up with Larson several times, including alongside Larson’s Carol Danvers in “Captain Marvel” and “Kong: Skull Island,” which Jackson said was where the two first bonded because they both had bad experiences on set.“We became great friends during that particular experience because we were having such a hard time,” Jackson noted.Jackson, who was an Usher at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral in 1968, went on to describe what his life was like growing up as a black man and how growing up in the ’50s and ’60s he experienced difficult things but can see the world hasn’t really changed.“The world seems to be in as hard a place as it’s always been. As a child of the Sixties, watching what happened at the 1968 Democratic Convention, and seeing the police beating those demonstrators — and those were young white kids — I learned there’s a certain kind of thing that the powers that be don’t want us doing.”The actor opened up about his views on the 2020 George Floyd protests and how they resembled a modern version of the Vietnam War uprisings during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Samuel L. Jackson stood up for his Marvel co-star Brie Larson during a recent interview with Rolling Stone in which the Nick Fury actor was asked about Larson being the target of toxic Marvel fans on social media. The two actors headlined 2019’s “Captain Marvel,” which was review bombed by trolls for featuring Larson’s female superhero in a leading role. Jackson called Larson a “stronger person than people give her credit for.” Jackson and Larson first met during the making of “Kong: Skull Island,” and then she cast him in a supporting role in her feature directorial debut “Unicorn Store.” Their bond led her to consult with him when Marvel Studios and Disney offered her the role of Captain Marvel.

on hold amid the ongoing writers strike).It’s hard not to compare her to Jackson’s Nick Fury, who was also introduced in the MCU across a slew of projects, gathering a team. It’s even harder not to suspect that Val might show up again in Jackson’s new Disney+ series, “Secret Invasion.” But he won’t say anything about that possibility — in fact, he’s not ready to talk about Val at all yet.

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Samuel L. Jackson is happy to be back.

BreAnna Bell Kingsley Ben-Adir is just as excited as the fans to see Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” finally hit the big screen. As he caught up with Variety at Marvel’s “Secret Invasion” premiere in Hollywood on Tuesday night, Ben-Adir recalled seeing Ryan Gosling and the rest of the Ken dolls for the first time in full costume. “We all looked like absolute losers in a funny way,” he shared, adding, “It was hilarious.” He went on to say that joining the film was a no-brainer after reading Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s script. “From the first page, I was like, ‘Wow, this is really, really funny!'” Ben-Adir said. “I just heard such great things about Ryan and Margot. Then me and Greta went out for some whiskey. We spoke for two or three hours. There was a really strong sense from early on like she was trying to do something a little bit different.

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