‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ Interviews with Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan

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“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” stars Chris Pratt (Peter Quill / Star-Lord), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Will Poulter (Adam Warlock), Pom Klementieff (Mantis), Sean Gunn (Kraglin / On-Set Rocket), Chukwudi Iwuji (The High Evolutionary) and writer Director James Gunn discuss their upcoming Marvel film and conclusion of the “Guardians of the Galaxy” trilogy in this post-Hall H interview with CinemaBlend at San Diego Comic-Con.

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00:00 I'm Sean from CinemaBlend.

00:02 Sorry, she's directing you.

00:04 Hey, don't be sorry.

00:06 We all have our side, you know what I mean?

00:08 This one's mine.

00:10 Oh, you're damn right that's your side.

00:12 I watch Endgame probably once a week.

00:24 My favorite line is still

00:26 "You missed the first time,

00:28 then you got 'em both the second time."

00:30 You got 'em both the second time.

00:32 Yeah, that's right.

00:34 Thank you, thank you. Wow.

00:36 How much of this story

00:38 is going to be about the search for Gamora?

00:40 Where is Gamora?

00:42 Yeah, oh, do you want better?

00:44 Who's Gamora? Oh, do you want better?

00:46 Why is Gamora?

00:48 We find Gamora very quickly. Oh, you do?

00:50 Oh, yes. Not like too quickly,

00:52 but you see in the Hall H footage that's where

00:54 we pick up Quill as he's dealing

00:56 with the loss of

00:58 this person who does not know who he is.

01:00 This is all post-blip,

01:02 post-Endgame, and

01:04 the love of his life

01:06 just doesn't know him.

01:08 So he's dealing with

01:10 that reality, and that's

01:12 a really tough place for him to be emotionally

01:14 and leaves the Guardians

01:16 of the Galaxy vulnerable.

01:18 This is the one? Seriously?

01:20 Your choices were him or a tree.

01:22 Karen, how are you?

01:24 Good to see you.

01:26 That looks amazing. Oh, thank you.

01:28 I appreciate that.

01:30 That's an incredible t-shirt.

01:32 I don't know what it is.

01:34 It's Optimus Prime. Oh, sorry.

01:36 You said it as if, like, you should know that.

01:38 Okay, so

01:40 I get one question with you.

01:42 I've always wanted to know this, because I

01:44 watch Endgame, like, once a week. Do you?

01:46 I do, I love it. Oh, it's my favorite movie

01:48 of all time. I watch all the time audience

01:50 reactions to Endgame. Aren't they amazing?

01:52 They're the best, especially when he's like

01:54 Avengers, Assemble, and then the whole crowd

01:56 is like, "Woo!"

01:58 Okay, but here's what I want to know. Nebula killed Nebula.

02:00 Do you deal with the impact

02:02 of that at all? The psychology of

02:04 Nebula killing Nebula.

02:06 I think it was actually a very

02:08 cathartic experience for her, like a positive

02:10 experience. It was like saying goodbye

02:12 to the previous version of who she used

02:14 to be, which was a very, like,

02:16 angry, bitter,

02:18 resentful person.

02:20 And she's, like, making space

02:22 for this new character that has experienced

02:24 love and has the capacity to

02:26 actually show love towards other people.

02:28 Can't wait to see how that develops.

02:30 What's up, buddy? Good to see you, man. How are you?

02:32 You doing alright? Yeah, I'm doing great. Good.

02:34 Yeah, this is so exciting.

02:36 Let's do a great one.

02:38 I want to know if your writing on

02:40 Peacemaker and being able to go hard R

02:42 is going to affect at all the tone of the humor

02:44 you're bringing to the third Guardians, or are they separate

02:46 entities? Totally separate entities. I don't

02:48 ever... I do... I'm completely

02:50 true to what the characters

02:52 are and what the story is.

02:54 And, um, this

02:56 is... this is Darker Guardians. I will

02:58 say it's a much darker movie than the first two

03:00 movies. But it's also

03:02 a, you know, an emotional

03:04 movie. So it isn't darkness without

03:06 that. Uh, it's

03:08 a story about these

03:10 characters who we've come to know very well.

03:12 And, um, and we get

03:14 to really see where they're going and where

03:16 they've been going all along since the beginning

03:18 of this story. Showtime

03:20 a-holes! So the buzz out of the panel

03:22 was, uh, Baby Rocket.

03:24 Yeah. That is true! This is you

03:26 I would assume. Well, yeah.

03:28 I mean, uh, yeah.

03:30 Uh, yeah. That is

03:32 also true! What... what

03:34 can you tell me about this transformation?

03:36 A new toy for you to play with?

03:38 Oh my gosh. It is, uh...

03:40 It is really

03:42 beautiful. It's

03:44 really wonderful that, like,

03:46 how we are incorporating

03:48 Rocket's backstory

03:50 into the story that we're telling.

03:52 Um, and it's, uh...

03:54 It's... it's tricky.

03:56 Well, I didn't ask to get made!

03:58 I didn't ask to be torn

04:00 apart and put back together

04:02 over and over and turned into some...

04:04 some little

04:06 monster! You know, you got a tiny

04:08 animal, and so we're put...

04:10 we're, like, doing our best to

04:12 put that together and portray that

04:14 in a, uh... in a...

04:16 in, like, a conscientious...

04:18 and, uh... in...

04:20 You know. Which is

04:22 hard, but, uh, I'm so

04:24 proud of it. I'm so proud of the work we did.

04:26 Are you crying?

04:28 Hi, Pom. How are you?

04:30 Good, and you? Nice to meet you.

04:32 So, with Guardians 2, you were

04:34 the new member of the family. Yes.

04:36 How did it feel? There's new

04:38 members of the family, and, um...

04:40 and I'm not the new one anymore.

04:42 So, do they come to you and say, "How do we fit in?"

04:44 No, but they fit in.

04:46 We're cool, you know? We just, like, embrace

04:48 them within the family.

04:50 Yeah. How do you recapture that

04:52 vibe when everybody gets back on set?

04:54 Is it just immediately plugged right back into it with everyone?

04:56 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

04:58 Of course. I mean, it's just, like, you know,

05:00 we... you know, you enter

05:02 in the, you know, James Gunn's

05:04 music, you know? It's like the...

05:06 you know, his scripts are

05:08 so, so good. I'm so...

05:10 I feel so lucky to be a part of this

05:12 franchise of these movies,

05:14 you know? Can you hint at what we can expect to see

05:16 from Mantis?

05:18 Um... yeah.

05:20 You see her, uh...

05:22 being stronger, being

05:24 louder, and...

05:26 yeah, you see different things.

05:28 And you see some action, too, which is really cool.

05:30 Kick names take ass.

05:32 Yeah, that's right.

05:34 Hey, Will, how are you? Nice to see you, man.

05:36 I'm wonderful. Thank you so much.

05:38 I'm a huge

05:40 Adam Warlock fan. Awesome.

05:42 Cannot wait to see his version in the MCU.

05:44 Oh, cool. What can you tell me about his

05:46 origin? We saw it very briefly at the end of Guardians 2.

05:48 What more can you let me on about?

05:50 Yeah, so, obviously, at the end of

05:52 Guardians 2, his kind of, uh,

05:54 birth, if you like, is teased with that

05:56 cocoon. And, um, you know,

05:58 I gotta be careful, wondering into spoiler territory,

06:00 but I think, uh... I think the...

06:02 the third installment, you know,

06:04 shows him kind of orientating

06:06 himself in the world, you know, trying to work out

06:08 right and wrong, you know, as a kind of

06:10 newborn might, trying to work out the

06:12 rules of the world that he finds himself

06:14 in, and it's kind of a self-development story, which

06:16 is cool. Are we doing, like, an anti-hero

06:18 type thing, or full-blown hero?

06:20 I mean, listen, that might be saying too much.

06:22 I, you know, I don't even know if Adam knows himself.

06:24 But, uh, yeah, yeah, that's

06:26 all to come. When they see what I have created

06:28 here, their wrath will dissipate.

06:32 And I love it to meet you also. So, the High Inquisitor,

06:34 I thought I was gonna see you in costume when you

06:36 showed up here. The High Evolutionary

06:38 doesn't just put on his clothes for everyone.

06:40 Do you know what I mean? You gotta pay a premium, you know, like...

06:42 I wasn't just gonna do that.

06:44 What can you tell me about his motivations?

06:46 I think in his head he believes he's doing the best

06:48 thing for the human... the humankind.

06:50 Um, which all

06:52 sort of narcissists and sociopaths

06:54 do. They don't really think they're doing

06:56 anything wrong, and they feel entitled to do what they do.

06:58 So, in many ways, he's, you know, he's

07:00 got... there's a weirdly attraction about

07:02 him because he's hugely intelligent and hugely

07:04 charismatic, but he's a complete...

07:06 you know, I don't know if I can swear here, but

07:08 you know what I mean. He's a complete

07:10 piece of shit. And that combination

07:12 is always fun to play, right? And it's

07:14 always fun to watch, 'cause do you love him? Do you hate him?

07:16 How much do you hate him? How much do you love him? Do you find

07:18 yourself being drawn to that, you know?

07:20 Yeah. Talk to me about just

07:22 James' dialogue switchover from

07:24 Peacemaker to Guardians.

07:26 In tone and delivery, is

07:28 there any difference in it? Do you find a

07:30 special nuance between one or the other?

07:32 Well, with this character, it's so different

07:34 to anything that was

07:36 in Peacemaker. And I think James...

07:38 I don't know how much of the dialogue

07:40 he... because he wrote most of it without ever

07:42 having met me, and then tweaked some things after he met

07:44 me. And I think this guy is very different.

07:46 There's nothing of Mern that I played

07:48 in Peacemaker in this guy, apart from me

07:50 playing it. And that's what James can do.

07:52 He can hit you emotionally,

07:54 make you laugh and stuff, but his strength is really

07:56 character. People think, because

07:58 of the genre and it's so funny, it's all about

08:00 plot and... you know what I mean? But James

08:02 focuses on character. And this character

08:04 was so unique. He came to me straight away as soon

08:06 as I read the script. And

08:08 so for me, it was a completely

08:10 different beast from, you know, Peacemaker.

08:12 We're all dying to see what came out of it, so...

08:14 So knowing that this is the

08:16 end of this iteration, what do you remember

08:18 about your last day of filming?

08:20 I think I... I gave

08:22 a speech to our crew,

08:24 to our cast, to James.

08:26 I just remember being

08:28 overcome with emotion and

08:30 you know, the feelings of gratitude

08:32 and the blessings of having James as our

08:34 director on this film and all

08:36 three films. He's an auteur

08:38 and a visionary and we're just so lucky

08:40 that he was

08:42 with us and that Disney

08:44 brought him back to be our

08:46 director. And so I just remember

08:48 this is the kind of tsunami of gratitude.

08:50 It had to mean everything to be able to finish with him.

08:52 It literally meant everything, man.

08:54 I heard you talking about the last day

08:56 on set. I'd more rather know about the last

08:58 page you wrote in the script

09:00 when you finally put it down and said,

09:02 "I'm done with it." I never put it down, man.

09:04 I don't. I never put it down.

09:06 I'm constantly, like, retooling

09:08 stuff. Not in a big

09:10 way, because I've had the

09:12 basic script for years.

09:14 But, you know, I'm always

09:16 rewriting stuff. I'm always

09:18 writing down new lines

09:20 that I throw the cast

09:22 while we're shooting. Just constantly

09:24 throwing them new lines.

09:26 Because I have stuff in my mind

09:28 that I like and I know it's gonna be better

09:30 if I just throw it to them and they say it

09:32 as opposed to them reading it and rehearsing it.

09:34 So, yeah, I'm always

09:36 writing. I never want to take for granted

09:38 the fact that we got you to come back and that you got

09:40 to close this off.

09:42 Yeah, so congratulations. Thank you, man.

09:48 You know, this is the end of The Guardians,

09:50 but is it the beginning of Adam Warlock's journey?

09:52 You know, I don't know. I certainly

09:54 hope so. Super sad

09:56 to think about the idea that Guardians

09:58 is ending. But, um,

10:00 yeah, you know, hopefully

10:02 Adam goes on to have some more

10:04 adventures and I'm certainly down if Marvel

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