Peyton Reed on How Ant-Man and the Wasp Will Work Together

In an interview with Coming Soon, director Peyton Reed spoke about how the titular superheroes will work together in Marvel Studios’ upcoming sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp. Here are highlights:

On the two as a team: “It’s not Ant-Man with The Wasp. It’s Ant-Man and the Wasp. It is important to tell those stories separately and invest in each of the characters’ journey and arc in the movie and one of the big things about this is kind of what’s going on with Hope and the fact that she the mission that is happening with her, entirely separate of Scott, is vital and it’s her mission. It’s not her dad’s mission. It’s her mission.”

On how Hope views Scott: “She sees Scott as a liability. And I think that was important because there are aspects of this movie that are like a two-hander action movie and there’s aspects of it that are like a two-hander romantic comedy and for me, who’s done a little bit of both, it’s important to sort of get that balance and have her be a fully fleshed out character with motivations.”

Paul Rudd on how Scott is different: “I like the idea of playing a Superhero that is not innately heroic or super in any way. And I like the idea also of not embracing the role because of all of the difficulties that we come along with having to be so bad ass, and how it would affect your life and how would it affect your relationships and certainly your being a responsible Parent.”

Evangeline Lilly’s on her Wasp outfit: “I don’t have a button. I have blasters on my wrists, I have my wings, essentially there is like a reaction system to what I am thinking. So, I don’t have to do anything physically to do activate shrinking, wings, blasters, growing, none of that. I just think it and it happens.”