“I didn’t understand it until I watched the movie but I knew enough to trust her. Zhao had “this whole universe in her head,” Nanjiani says. So if she wants me to do something, I’m going to do it,’ because I completely trusted her. “And then after meeting Chloe, I was like, ‘Oh, she’s not going to let me suck in this thing. He said he felt excitement initially, then fear. “I can’t swear, so put in a swear word here Chloe lied to me,” Nanjiani says.įor Nanjiani, his wobbly moment over the question of dancing became a metaphor for the entire project: it worked because he surrendered his trust to Zhao’s vision. (In the film his character, Kingo, spends part of his eternal life on Earth as a Bollywood star.) Nanjiani tells the story a little differently. I’m in my 50s and they let me do my action movie.”įor Nanjiani’s part, Zhao had to play a game of misdirection to secure him, by promising there would be no dancing, even though the script Nanjiani saw contained several Bollywood-inspired sequences. And when you think about it, I’m short with big boobs. To do something that comes from a deep place.

“So it’s very humbling when, in the middle of your 50s, a brilliant director gives you the opportunity to do both. You fight for it in your 20s, in your 30s, and in your 40s, you go, screw them, they don’t get it. I wanted to work with the best directors, to have big blockbuster movies, but also movies that are art, that are made from very deep places. “But in my big dreams, I wanted to be a superhero. “I dream big, and if I had not, I wouldn’t have gotten here at all,” she says. Back in the 1980s, the addition of made-for-television DC Comics heroes such as Apache Chief and El Dorado to the Superfriends was considered groundbreaking even if, in hindsight, the characterisations were a little too cliche for comfort. While comic books in their published form have a much longer and richer history of creating (or re-creating) heroes of varied ethnicities and sexualities - the most recent being a bisexual Superman - their big-screen counterparts have been slower to do the same. They join Angelina Jolie as the warrior goddess Thena, Gemma Chan as the empathetic Sersi, Richard Madden as the sun-powered Ikaris, Lia McHugh as the illusion-wielding Sprite, Barry Keoghan as the mind-manipulating Druig and Don Lee as Gilgamesh, the strongest of the Eternals, a group of super-superheroes who have, until now, largely stayed in the shadows while the Earth was saved (over and over) by their mortal cousins, the human Avengers.

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