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Marvel's Eternals: Gemma Chan Confirmed As Sersi, Barry Keoghan as Druig
By Cooper Hood
Gemma Chan is playing Sersi in Eternals, with Barry Keoghan set to play Druig. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is expanding in major ways. After eleven years of the Infinity Saga, MCU Phase 4 is set to introduce a plethora of new characters and franchise to keep the universe fresh. One of the prime examples of this is Eternals, a movie adaptation of the little-known Jack Kirby Marvel characters.
The movie has been speeding through development over the last year or so, with Chloe Zhao set to direct. But, since Eternals is not a well-known franchise, Marvel turned their attention to casting a high-profile, talented, and diverse ensemble. Most of this cast was announced at San Diego Comic-Con, with long-rumored castings of Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, and Kumail Nanjiani made official. After that panel though, reports surfaced that Captain Marvel's Gemma Chan could get a brand new MCU role.
During D23 2019, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed that this is the case. Chan will play Sersi in Eternals, who is traditionally one of the lead characters of the comics. Meanwhile, Barry Keoghan was also confirmed to be part of the cast, and he will play the villainous Druig.
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By Cooper Hood
Gemma Chan is playing Sersi in Eternals, with Barry Keoghan set to play Druig. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is expanding in major ways. After eleven years of the Infinity Saga, MCU Phase 4 is set to introduce a plethora of new characters and franchise to keep the universe fresh. One of the prime examples of this is Eternals, a movie adaptation of the little-known Jack Kirby Marvel characters.
The movie has been speeding through development over the last year or so, with Chloe Zhao set to direct. But, since Eternals is not a well-known franchise, Marvel turned their attention to casting a high-profile, talented, and diverse ensemble. Most of this cast was announced at San Diego Comic-Con, with long-rumored castings of Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, and Kumail Nanjiani made official. After that panel though, reports surfaced that Captain Marvel's Gemma Chan could get a brand new MCU role.
During D23 2019, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed that this is the case. Chan will play Sersi in Eternals, who is traditionally one of the lead characters of the comics. Meanwhile, Barry Keoghan was also confirmed to be part of the cast, and he will play the villainous Druig.
screenrant.com
HBO Max Acquires Soderbergh Comedy Starring Meryl Streep, Gemma Chan
BY KYLIE HEMMERT
HBO Max has acquired the original comedy Let Them All Talk from director Steven Soderbergh, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Oscar-winner Meryl Streep (The Post, Big Little Lies) and Gemma Chan (Humans, Captain Marvel) will star in the feature.
Also starring Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway), Oscar nominee Candice Bergen (Starting Over), and Oscar nominee Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea), Let Them All Talk centers on a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey on a cruise ship with some old friends (Bergen, Wiest) to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan).
“This is the kind of project where you just say, ‘Yes please sign me up,’” said Sarah Aubrey, head of HBO Max’s original content. “To work with Steven Soderbergh and this all-star cast led by Meryl Streep is thrilling and sets the standard for features at HBO Max.”
The movie is written by MacArthur Fellow and PEN/Faulkner award-winning author Deborah Eisenberg. Soderbergh will direct and co-financed the project alongside producer Greg Jacobs. The deal was brokered by Michael Sugar of Sugar 23 and Jamie Feldman on behalf of the filmmakers.
The movie is currently filming in New York and will also shoot in the UK. HBO Max will launch in spring 2020 as the streamer’s slate continues to expand its original programming.
comingsoon.net
BY KYLIE HEMMERT
HBO Max has acquired the original comedy Let Them All Talk from director Steven Soderbergh, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Oscar-winner Meryl Streep (The Post, Big Little Lies) and Gemma Chan (Humans, Captain Marvel) will star in the feature.
Also starring Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway), Oscar nominee Candice Bergen (Starting Over), and Oscar nominee Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea), Let Them All Talk centers on a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey on a cruise ship with some old friends (Bergen, Wiest) to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan).
“This is the kind of project where you just say, ‘Yes please sign me up,’” said Sarah Aubrey, head of HBO Max’s original content. “To work with Steven Soderbergh and this all-star cast led by Meryl Streep is thrilling and sets the standard for features at HBO Max.”
The movie is written by MacArthur Fellow and PEN/Faulkner award-winning author Deborah Eisenberg. Soderbergh will direct and co-financed the project alongside producer Greg Jacobs. The deal was brokered by Michael Sugar of Sugar 23 and Jamie Feldman on behalf of the filmmakers.
The movie is currently filming in New York and will also shoot in the UK. HBO Max will launch in spring 2020 as the streamer’s slate continues to expand its original programming.
comingsoon.net
Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne Join Olivia Wilde's 'Don't Worry Darling'
Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, and Chris Pine are already on board the New Line thriller.
By Borys Kit
Gemma Chan and KiKi Layne have joined the high-powered cast of Don’t Worry Darling, the psychological thriller that Olivia Wilde is directing for New Line.
The two join Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine and Wilde, the latter who, on top of helming and starring, is also producing. Darling is due to begin production later in October and will shoot in Palm Springs and Los Angeles.
Details are being kept secret, but the setting for Darling is an isolated, utopian community in the 1950s California desert and centers on a housewife who uncovers a disturbing truth about her seemingly perfect life.
Few details are available, but it is known that Pugh is leading the ensemble, playing the housewife. Characters details for Chan and Layne are being kept secret but Layne is replacing the previous cast Dakota Johnson, who bowed out due to scheduling issues. It’s not the first scheduling challenge faced by the project, which was originally due to have shot in the spring; Styles took over from Shia LaBeouf for similar reasons.
BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Katie Silberman penned the screenplay based on a spec script by Shane and Carey Van Dyke.
Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Miri Yoon will produce with Wilde and Silberman. Catherine Hardwicke acts as an executive producer alongside the Van Dykes.
The project is being overseen by New Line execs Richard Brener, Daria Cercek and Celia Khong.
Chan gained a fanbase for her work in AMC’s sci-fi show Humans and also appeared in blockbusters Captain Marvel and Crazy Rich Asians. She will next be seen Marvel’s The Eternals, currently scheduled to open Nov. 5, 2021, as well as Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk, which will debut on HBO Max. She is repped by WME, M88, and Independent Talent Group.
hollywoodreporter.com
Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, and Chris Pine are already on board the New Line thriller.
By Borys Kit
Gemma Chan and KiKi Layne have joined the high-powered cast of Don’t Worry Darling, the psychological thriller that Olivia Wilde is directing for New Line.
The two join Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine and Wilde, the latter who, on top of helming and starring, is also producing. Darling is due to begin production later in October and will shoot in Palm Springs and Los Angeles.
Details are being kept secret, but the setting for Darling is an isolated, utopian community in the 1950s California desert and centers on a housewife who uncovers a disturbing truth about her seemingly perfect life.
Few details are available, but it is known that Pugh is leading the ensemble, playing the housewife. Characters details for Chan and Layne are being kept secret but Layne is replacing the previous cast Dakota Johnson, who bowed out due to scheduling issues. It’s not the first scheduling challenge faced by the project, which was originally due to have shot in the spring; Styles took over from Shia LaBeouf for similar reasons.
BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Katie Silberman penned the screenplay based on a spec script by Shane and Carey Van Dyke.
Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Miri Yoon will produce with Wilde and Silberman. Catherine Hardwicke acts as an executive producer alongside the Van Dykes.
The project is being overseen by New Line execs Richard Brener, Daria Cercek and Celia Khong.
Chan gained a fanbase for her work in AMC’s sci-fi show Humans and also appeared in blockbusters Captain Marvel and Crazy Rich Asians. She will next be seen Marvel’s The Eternals, currently scheduled to open Nov. 5, 2021, as well as Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk, which will debut on HBO Max. She is repped by WME, M88, and Independent Talent Group.
hollywoodreporter.com
“I Was Definitely a Bit Sweaty”: Gemma Chan on Working With Living Legend Meryl Streep
The British actor talks about Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk, Marvel’s Eternals, and making a thriller with her old pal Harry Styles.
BY YOHANA DESTA
Not so long ago, actors exerted a gravitational pull, tugging production assistants, makeup artists, hairstylists, sound editors, cinematographers, and directors into their orbit. In the COVID-19 era, the polarity has reversed. “Anytime an actor walks on the set, there’s someone on the loudspeaker going, ‘Shields on! Shields on!’ ” says Gemma Chan during a Halloween night Zoom call. “You just feel like, Oh, my God, me being here makes it worse for everyone!”
The difference is stark, particularly for Chan, whose career exploded after her breakout turn as glamorous cousin Astrid in 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians. COVID hasn’t slowed the flood of projects, even if it’s upended the way Hollywood works. In Steven Soderbergh’s dramedy Let Them All Talk,based on a short story by Deborah Eisenberg and slated to hit HBO Max in December, Meryl Streep plays a stern literary giant with a debilitating fear of flying. Chan is the eager agent who convinces her to take an ocean liner to England with two of her closest friends (Dianne Wiest and Candice Bergen) and her nephew (Lucas Hedges) to collect an award—and then slips aboard herself.
Immediately after that shoot wrapped, Chan pivoted to Marvel’s more colossally scaled Eternals.The actor played a wicked alien warrior in 2019’s Captain Marvel; now, in her second outing at the studio, she becomes Sersi, an alien furnished with all the best superpowers—telepathy, telekinesis, superhuman strength. The film, directed by Chloé Zhao, follows a group of immortal galactic heroes (Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, and Kumail Nanjiani, to name a few) across 7,000 years, but Chan can’t reveal much more than that. “She’s the most human-loving of all the Eternals, and she really appealed to me,” Chan says carefully of her character, as though stepping over a tripwire that would alert the Marvel spoiler police. “She’s incredibly empathetic.”
Chan was recently named a spokesperson for L’Oréal Paris and began filming Don’t Worry Darling, a psychological thriller directed by Olivia Wilde, which also stars Florence Pugh and Chan’s old pal Harry Styles, whom she’s known for almost a decade. They “were all a lot younger” when she and the pop superstar met, she quips, her posh British accent lending the line a storybook wistfulness.
On Zoom, Chan is gracious and unfailingly polite. She’s also politically minded, so much so that she brings up the presidential election, the global climate crisis, and the pandemic before I can. The actor nearly ended up on an entirely different career path after emerging from Oxford with a legal degree. For two years she repeatedly deferred a job offer at a law firm, then enrolled at Drama Centre London to study acting. Telling her Scottish Chinese mother and Hong Kong-born father about her change of heart was painful, she has said, because education had raised her dad out of poverty and allowed him to emigrate to the U.K. Thankfully, Chan’s acting career bloomed quickly, and her parents came around. She began booking parts across television (Doctor Who, Secret Diary of a Call Girl) and film (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), and then Crazy Rich Asiansblew everything wide open.
Let Them All Talk was largely shot over a single week during the pre-COVID summer of 2019, aboard the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary 2, a ship so large, it has its own planetarium. The cast and crew worked by day while the famously efficient Soderbergh, who also served as his own cinematographer and editor, edited footage by night. Hundreds of the ship’s passengers happily served as extras. In another guerrilla filmmaking move, the dialogue was almost entirely improvised, making Chan’s very first scene—a tense lunch in which she and Streep’s character negotiate the ocean journey—even more stressful. “She was really lovely,” Chan says of the three-time Oscar winner. “But I definitely was a bit sweaty.” Soderbergh’s directorial notes occasionally made her nerves comically worse. “I think at one point Steven said to Meryl, ‘Look at her like you’re looking at a bug,’ ” says Chan, bursting into laughter.
In retrospect, Let Them All Talk was an idyllic experience. The Queen Mary 2 operated as a 148,530-ton art cocoon, with the film’s cast and crew commandeering different sections of the ship in the name of moviemaking. Chan loved it. “Something funny happens when you’ve been at sea for a few days and you’ve not seen land,” she says. “The sky at night is incredible, and the sunsets every single day were out of this world.”
It’s hard not to pine for those days in the new universe of Shields on! Shields on! “The rest of the world does fade away,” says Chan. “You’re on the ship, and it’s just the sea in every direction.”
vanityfair.com
The British actor talks about Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk, Marvel’s Eternals, and making a thriller with her old pal Harry Styles.
BY YOHANA DESTA
Not so long ago, actors exerted a gravitational pull, tugging production assistants, makeup artists, hairstylists, sound editors, cinematographers, and directors into their orbit. In the COVID-19 era, the polarity has reversed. “Anytime an actor walks on the set, there’s someone on the loudspeaker going, ‘Shields on! Shields on!’ ” says Gemma Chan during a Halloween night Zoom call. “You just feel like, Oh, my God, me being here makes it worse for everyone!”
The difference is stark, particularly for Chan, whose career exploded after her breakout turn as glamorous cousin Astrid in 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians. COVID hasn’t slowed the flood of projects, even if it’s upended the way Hollywood works. In Steven Soderbergh’s dramedy Let Them All Talk,based on a short story by Deborah Eisenberg and slated to hit HBO Max in December, Meryl Streep plays a stern literary giant with a debilitating fear of flying. Chan is the eager agent who convinces her to take an ocean liner to England with two of her closest friends (Dianne Wiest and Candice Bergen) and her nephew (Lucas Hedges) to collect an award—and then slips aboard herself.
Immediately after that shoot wrapped, Chan pivoted to Marvel’s more colossally scaled Eternals.The actor played a wicked alien warrior in 2019’s Captain Marvel; now, in her second outing at the studio, she becomes Sersi, an alien furnished with all the best superpowers—telepathy, telekinesis, superhuman strength. The film, directed by Chloé Zhao, follows a group of immortal galactic heroes (Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, and Kumail Nanjiani, to name a few) across 7,000 years, but Chan can’t reveal much more than that. “She’s the most human-loving of all the Eternals, and she really appealed to me,” Chan says carefully of her character, as though stepping over a tripwire that would alert the Marvel spoiler police. “She’s incredibly empathetic.”
Chan was recently named a spokesperson for L’Oréal Paris and began filming Don’t Worry Darling, a psychological thriller directed by Olivia Wilde, which also stars Florence Pugh and Chan’s old pal Harry Styles, whom she’s known for almost a decade. They “were all a lot younger” when she and the pop superstar met, she quips, her posh British accent lending the line a storybook wistfulness.
On Zoom, Chan is gracious and unfailingly polite. She’s also politically minded, so much so that she brings up the presidential election, the global climate crisis, and the pandemic before I can. The actor nearly ended up on an entirely different career path after emerging from Oxford with a legal degree. For two years she repeatedly deferred a job offer at a law firm, then enrolled at Drama Centre London to study acting. Telling her Scottish Chinese mother and Hong Kong-born father about her change of heart was painful, she has said, because education had raised her dad out of poverty and allowed him to emigrate to the U.K. Thankfully, Chan’s acting career bloomed quickly, and her parents came around. She began booking parts across television (Doctor Who, Secret Diary of a Call Girl) and film (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), and then Crazy Rich Asiansblew everything wide open.
Let Them All Talk was largely shot over a single week during the pre-COVID summer of 2019, aboard the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary 2, a ship so large, it has its own planetarium. The cast and crew worked by day while the famously efficient Soderbergh, who also served as his own cinematographer and editor, edited footage by night. Hundreds of the ship’s passengers happily served as extras. In another guerrilla filmmaking move, the dialogue was almost entirely improvised, making Chan’s very first scene—a tense lunch in which she and Streep’s character negotiate the ocean journey—even more stressful. “She was really lovely,” Chan says of the three-time Oscar winner. “But I definitely was a bit sweaty.” Soderbergh’s directorial notes occasionally made her nerves comically worse. “I think at one point Steven said to Meryl, ‘Look at her like you’re looking at a bug,’ ” says Chan, bursting into laughter.
In retrospect, Let Them All Talk was an idyllic experience. The Queen Mary 2 operated as a 148,530-ton art cocoon, with the film’s cast and crew commandeering different sections of the ship in the name of moviemaking. Chan loved it. “Something funny happens when you’ve been at sea for a few days and you’ve not seen land,” she says. “The sky at night is incredible, and the sunsets every single day were out of this world.”
It’s hard not to pine for those days in the new universe of Shields on! Shields on! “The rest of the world does fade away,” says Chan. “You’re on the ship, and it’s just the sea in every direction.”
vanityfair.com
