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Karen Gillan Teases More Improvisation In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

April 5, 2022 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
Nebula Guardians of the Galaxy Karen Gillan Image Credit: Marvel Studios

Karen Gillan is returning as Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and she says that the new film features more improvisation by the case. Gillan talked about the upcoming MCU film in a new interview with The Wrap and talked about how James Gunn allowed more improvisation on the set this time.

“There’s been way more improv for me this time around than I have ever given before,” Gillan told the outlet. “I will say, I’ve improvised a fair bit of Nebula because I don’t know if you saw [Avengers:] Endgame, which seems like — (laughs) — That’s a ridiculous question. But basically, all of the stuff with Robert Downey Jr. at the beginning was like, that whole montage was improvised. Because all that was written was oh, they play football. They eat, they do this. And then we kind of ended up getting to improvise because he’s an amazing improviser. And so there was all this stuff about them playing the game and how much it meant to Nebula that she actually got to win something. And so she’s been slowly getting more improv-y.”

Gillan said of Nebula in the new film, “This time around in Guardians 3, she’s, yeah, she’s improvising a lot more lines. I don’t know if they’ll make the cut, but I hope they do.”

Gunn is back as writer and director on the new film, which features the return of stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Sean Gunn, Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Bradley Cooper, and Vin Diesel along with new MCU stars Will Poulter and Chukwudi Iwuji. It is set to release on May 5th, 2023.