Once you tackle the position of a villain within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, chances are high you already notice that your profile is about to be on the rise. In spite of everything, anytime a brand new Marvel present or film arrives, the villain is entrance and middle, able to be hated. With Secret Invasion, although, Kingsley Ben-Adir is in a novel scenario as Gravik. That scenario is pink, comfortable, and dwelling someplace in Barbie’s dreamhouse.
See, Ben-Adir, is not solely a newcomer to the MCU, however this summer season he additionally seems in Barbie as none apart from Ken–well, one in every of them anyway.
Whereas sitting down with the actor to debate Secret Invasion, GameSpot could not assist however surprise what his villainous Skrull character has in widespread along with his explicit model of Ken. The reply will not shock you, however the reasoning behind it’d.
“Completely nothing,” Ben-Adir stated plainly, earlier than admitting how shut collectively the 2 tasks have been filmed and the way one character influenced the opposite.
“I believe happening to Barbie straight after this, a variety of the alternatives that I made or spoke to Greta about earlier than I made, have been making an attempt to make [Ken] the exact opposite [of Gravik] in a method,” he defined. “I do not assume it is giving an excessive amount of away to say that the Ken that I play is just like the seven-year-old boy who would not like violence, loves everybody… he is a toddler. And I believe Gravik is a sociopath.”
After all, given the lengths we have seen Gravik go to within the first two episodes of Secret Invasion, that is not an enormous shock. He is blown up a giant chunk of Moscow, taken a spot because the chief of Skrulls on earth, and desires to only eliminate the pesky people standing in the way in which of this turning into a brand new dwelling for all Skrulls.
Naturally, once you see flashbacks to the occasions the Skrull refugees on earth are primarily omitted within the chilly by Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), who promised to seek out them a brand new dwelling, it isn’t arduous to sympathize with Gravik. Nonetheless, sympathy and endorsing his terrorist assaults on harmless individuals are two various things, Ben-Adir says.
“With Gravik, it was actually necessary that we get to know why,” the actor started. “However I believe that was equally necessary was to make selections round him being a man who has crossed over that lane–that he would not belief anybody or really feel love for something or anybody at this level. That he is gone too far. He is been let down time and time and time and time and time once more by the management figures in his life. And we meet him at some extent the place it is like, no extra trusting anybody.”
That mindset does no favors for anyone, which actually makes us assume we are going to see much more catastrophe, ache, and torment earlier than the six episodes of Secret Invasion come to an in depth. In spite of everything, if Gravik’s mindset is that you just’re both with him otherwise you’re in opposition to the survival of the Skrulls, there are a variety of people–and Skrulls–out there who will seemingly find yourself on the fallacious aspect.
Secret Invasion episodes launch Wednesdays on Disney+.
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