Interview: The Marvels’ Zawe Ashton Talks Dar-Benn, Tom Hiddleston’s Support

13.02.2024 - 20:43 / comingsoon.net / Carol Danvers / Monica Rambeau / Kamala Khan / Tom Hiddleston

ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with about playing the villain in the latest Marvel Studios movie. The actress discussed her process for learning about Dar-Benn and how both her and her fiancé are in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Marvels is now available to purchase digitally and on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD.

“Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence,” reads the film‘s synopsis. “But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan, Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol’s estranged niece Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team-up and learn to work in concert to save the universe as The Marvels.”

Thank you, Tyler! I really appreciate that, and I love your background as well — Teyonah [Parris] is just flying up out of your head. I think what I found intriguing was everything that you’ve just said, quite honestly. I was playing a character that had a lot of scope in terms of what we didn’t know about them. It was kind of up to myself and Nia [DaCosta] and the writers to fill in the blanks, I guess. One of the first things that really struck me was her humanity. How traumatized she was by this event that Captain Marvel is at the center of when she was younger and much more hopeful. I think, like lots of villains, there’s always that sadness there. Lots of people say anger is suppressed sadness.

And I think there was just so much in her that was still so sad about what had happened to her people, and that it was translating into this vengeance … I just found that so intriguing. I find the Kree, as a people, so intriguing. Their story feels so relevant. They were heartbroken people, they were colonized people, they were people that didn’t have anyone to really protect them. The fact that she’s this civilian who tries to do that, I just think, is so remarkable and, like I said, so human. So there was a lot to be intrigued by there. A lot of human qualities outside of all the incredible space stuff that was really just really intriguing and so fun to do.

I probably was very over-the-top. [Laughs]. It was very over-the-top in some bits. A lot of it actually came through my physical life. We are so lucky and blessed on these films. If you are someone who has to have a physical storyline, we have these incredible stunt teams who just surround us months before you’ve shot anything. Going into the stunt gym with them and working out how to wield my hammer, understanding why I use it, how I use it, understanding