- Well, I think it's how
we're going to make the superhero film,
both excited Marvel and me from the very beginning.
And it is the idea of,
we want it to be as immersive as possible.
We want to believe that these immortal aliens
have really walked Earth for 7,000 years.
And that means to show up in the middle of nowhere,
in different locations around the world,
and really letting the camera
not be the hero,
letting the camera just gently drift and absorb
and let the actors interact with the world they're in.
And let audience makes the conclusion of the actors,
the character's relationship
with the world where they exist.
- We're Eternals.
We came here 7,000 years ago
to protect humans from the Deviants.
- I play Ajak, who is in charge of this mission,
and who is
the one that is the link with the Celestials,
who sent us on the mission.
This is a family that is really cool
and interesting to watch
and all their dysfunctional dynamics
and how they reach each other within their dynamics,
and it's like some families, they all look alike,
but everybody is different.
This allows for a completely
new kind of a superhero film, because
you've never seen those conflicts before.
I mean, you've never had a gay superhero
and what are his internal conflicts?
Another one is deaf, but we don't even talk about it
as if it's something specific.
We just,
with no judgment, embrace and love
the diversity within our own family.
One struggles with mental health.
- You know, I have my own PTSD, people have...
many people carry, for different reasons
and different things that have happened in their life,
and a lot of people deal
with mental health issues or trauma issues.
She could have that and be still the greatest fighter.
'Cause I think that's right.
And I think so many people that have that feel,
that then they kind of, couldn't be, or then they're broken,
and that's not true, 'cause it's the struggle to have that
because you're very emotional or you're very open
or you absorb a lot.
They do hold each other, it does come together.
For me, it was very healing
and I hope it is for other people
who have different traumas and mental illnesses.
- One of the themes of the film is
that you are always stronger when you come together.
And the vision of Chloe was always to have a diverse cast.
- Who do you think's going to lead the Avengers?
- I could lead them.
- Sersi is the Eternal that probably has the most
affinity with humankind.
She's a bit of a reluctant superhero,
a reluctant immortal, she'd happily live amongst humans
as one of them, blending in.
She has a lot of empathy.
She's a bit of a free spirit.
Her powers, I feel like she doesn't...
at the beginning of the film
she doesn't really even know or understand
the extent of her own power.
And that's something she comes to discover in this film,
that she can manipulate matter.
She's used that over the years to kind of assist humanity,
but she's really driven by
love.
She has a great love for humanity
and this huge, thousand-year standing love for Ikaris.
- He is Ajack the leader's right hand man,
he's her main soldier.
He's the one that's most duty-bound, most purpose-driven.
And the top of that, he's got this huge heart that,
much like a soldier, he shouldn't
or feels like he's not allowed to engage with,
until he gets permission from the boss.
As the Eternals movie goes, I feel like
he's a character that's constantly wrestling
between his mind and his heart,
his sense of duty and his feelings of love.
And that's what puts him
in this really kind of complicated position
that makes him do the wrong things for the right reasons.
- How long were you together?
- 5,000 years.
- I guess you can call that long term.
- A bit about Dane Whitman, nice guy, general good egg,
Played him very close to me.
After saying it's such a nice guy, that sounds like...
- He's very likable.
- He's soft, right? - Yeah.
- He's kind of... - He's sweet.
- Look, Sersi needs to be in love with him.
We need to believe that, that was kind of my job,
was to represent humanity in this.
- Sprite is 7,000 years old, stuck in the body of a child.
She's a very old soul, of course.
She's gone through a lot throughout her life
and she deals with a lot internally that she sort of
shields with a bit of sassiness and attitude.
'Cause she's a little bit tired of life at this point.
And she is tired of humans and humanity.
- If this is what the end of the world looks like,
at least we have front row seats.
- Hi.
- Hello.
- Hey, who's your gardener?
- His name is Kingo and he really considers...
he really, really loves his Eternals family.
And when our leader, Ajak, tells us to go our separate ways
and keep a low profile,
he decides to become a Bollywood movie star.
So that's his secret identity,
and he can shoot lasers from his hands.
He's got a lot going for him.
- I think Makkari finds herself
in different situations than Kumail.
'Cause what Kingo was doing,
he really just wanted to find a place,
where I think Makkari just wanted to stay outside.
She wanted to be an outsider.
She's a speedster, that's her superpower.
But it's also her liability, too, like what do you do?
How do you hide that?
So basically, she just stays in isolation to hide it.
- I think that the internal diversity
that goes beyond sexuality,
that goes beyond geography,
and the combination of very different people
enriches everything.