The actor was Kit Harington, who at the time was just concluding his eight-season run as the sword-wielding warrior Jon Snow on the HBO behemoth “Game of Thrones.” Similarly, Dane Whitman has a rich and complicated history in the Marvel Comics, with a lineage that dates back to the medieval legend of King Arthur and a legacy as the superhuman warrior the Black Knight - whose abilities come from a cursed sword called the Ebony Blade. “I go, ‘Who’s that? Black Knight? Oh, there’s an actor who’d be great to play that!'” she said. When looking for a contemporary love interest for Sersi in the film, Zhao says she gravitated to one of the character’s historic boyfriends in the comics: Dane Whitman, a.k.a. “And then to see him come on set and just bring Eros to life, it was great,” she said.Įros wasn’t the only major new character Zhao introduces in “Eternals” through a post-credits scene, either. Zhao shot the scene in one day, with Styles hiding his face in hoodie when he was walking to and from set. “I think everyone loves working with Marvel,” she said. I just was very, very excited when Kevin, ‘Let’s do it.'”Īccording to the filmmaker, it did not take much convincing to get Styles to sign on to the play the role. I had this whole thing made up in my head, what their backstory is. “Seeing his career, where he’s going, what he’s representing, him as an individual - he’s very interesting, unique,” Zhao said of Styles. Given Styles’ willingness to explore less-than-honorable behavior on screen - and his gender-bending music persona as an omnisexual object of desire - Zhao thought the 27-year-old was a perfect fit for Eros, whose ability to stimulate and control the emotions of others makes him the ultimate galactic Lothario. Zhao says she’s been following Styles’ nascent acting career ever since he made his feature debut in Christopher Nolan’s 2017 World War II epic “Dunkirk,” playing a morally questionable British soldier desperate to escape the invading Nazi army. “It wasn’t like I created this character and I think about different people. “The idea of Eros and Harry came to me at the same time,” she said. Wearing a similar uniform to his fellow Eternals, out steps Eros, as played by music superstar and budding actor Styles, who warns Thena, Makkari and Druig that their friends are in danger - and he knows how to help them.Īccording to Zhao, when she pitched introducing Pip and Eros to Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige as a mid-credits scene, she already knew she wanted Styles to play the role. Suddenly, a small, swirling vortex appears in their ship, and out pops Pip the Troll (voiced by Patton Oswalt), who, with a rhetorical flourish, heralds the impending appearance of Eternal - and brother to Thanos - Eros, a.k.a. Unaware of Arishem’s wrath, they’re worried that they haven’t heard from their compatriots on Earth in weeks. The mid-credits scene opens on the Eternals’ spaceship, where Thena (Angelina Jolie), Makkari (Lauren Ridloff) and Druig (Barry Keoghan) are traveling to find other Eternals to tell them of the Celestial’s deception. As he looms over the Earth, Arishem announces he’s putting them on trial for the death of a Celestial, and their experiences with humanity will decide whether the planet will ultimately survive. After Sersi (Gemma Chan) successfully leads the Eternals to stop the emergence of a Celestial from inside the Earth - which would have obliterated the planet - the lead Celestial, Arishem (David Kaye), arrives on Earth and yanks Sersi, Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) and Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani) into space. The first post-credits scene follows the movie’s cliffhanger ending. “I still can’t believe it happened,” she said. After Zhao was assured that any story about the post-credit scenes would publish after “Eternals” debuted in theaters, she loosened up.
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