The Eternals‘ Gemma Chan Didn’t Think She’d Return To The MCU After Captain Marvel

In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Gemma Chan spoke about how she didn’t think she’d be able to return to the MCU after her character died in Captain Marvel. She will play Sersi in The Eternals, which arrives on November 5, 2021. Here are highlights:

On being brought back to Marvel: “My character dies in [Captain Marvel], so I thought there was no chance that I would really be coming back, which I was a bit bummed about. But then I encountered [Marvel Studios boss] Kevin Feige during the awards circuit for Crazy Rich Asians and out of the blue, he just came up and said, ‘We’d love to have you back. We’d love to make better use of you. We want you to do something else, so let’s find that project.’ But, to be honest, I had no idea that it would be so soon.”

On what to expect from the movie: “It felt very different. It’s a really epic story. Very ambitious. I feel like it’s going to be a superhero movie that is not like a superhero movie. That sounds like a very obvious thing to say, but they’re trying to do something different with this film. So we’re all crossing our fingers that it works and that people respond to it. We shot a lot on location, using a lot of natural light. There wasn’t that much bluescreen stuff, which I did quite a lot of on Captain Marvel. [Sersi is] very empathetic and her powers come from an unexpected place.”