Ben Mendelsohn Drew Inspiration From Terminator 2 For His Captain Marvel Villain

Ben Mendelsohn says that he found inspiration for his Skrull villain from Captain Marvel from another iconic shapeshifter: the T-1000. Mendelsohn spoke with THR ahead of the film’s March 8th release and discussed how he was influenced by Robert Patrick’s portrayal of the Robert Patrick’s liquid metal assassin to play Talos, the Skrull commander.

“I thought about Robert Patrick quite a bit!,” Mendelsohn said. “That’s just such a great benchmark for the piece. But, the mechanics of what go on between the Terminator stuff and the Skrulls are markedly different. I did dive back to the earliest Skrull appearances. You think about how they started their lives and what their job was in the Marvel world back at that time. It wasn’t yet a Marvel universe, per se. So, I thought about Terminator 2 probably more than other movies, but they just become distant background music that is less relevant once you get into the playing of what it is you’re actually doing.”

Mendelsohn drawing inspiration from T2 is oddly appropriate, considering the film released in 1991 and Captain Marvel is a prequel set in the 1990s. We’ll get a chance to draw comparisons between Talos and the T-1000 when the film releases in a couple of weeks.