The titular team in The Marvels is a group that comes together totally by accident. Thanks to a cosmic anomaly, Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers, Teyonnah Parris’ Monica Rambeau and Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan find their special light-based powers entangled, and they are basically forced to unite in order to stop what’s causing it. Accidental as the ensemble may be, however, what’s cool about the special unit is the way in which it allows the film to play with very different perspectives on the heroic Captain Marvel.
On one hand, Monica has essentially been neglected by her aunt for the last 30 years, and on the other hand, Kamala is a superfan who dreams of being besties with Carol. It’s a special dynamic, and I brought it up this past weekend when I had the chance to sit down with director Nia DaCosta at the Los Angeles press day for The Marvels. I asked about the impact of the special relationships within the eponymous unit.
On one hand, Monica has essentially been neglected by her aunt for the last 30 years, and on the other hand, Kamala is a superfan who dreams of being besties with Carol. It’s a special dynamic, and I brought it up this past weekend when I had the chance to sit down with director Nia DaCosta at the Los Angeles press day for The Marvels. I asked about the impact of the special relationships within the eponymous unit.
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00:00 As far as the relationship with Carol Danvers,
00:02 the way that Monica and Kamala,
00:04 they look at her completely differently.
00:06 I mean, you have Monica who has not seen her
00:08 in literal decades, and Kamala who just views her
00:10 as a pure god.
00:12 I'm curious about playing with that contrast
00:13 with the characters as a triumvirate.
00:16 - It was really exciting because,
00:18 I think with movies with multiple characters,
00:20 it's really great when their individual journeys
00:22 and their individual relationships
00:24 sort of help them become a group,
00:27 or the way that they interact as a group
00:29 helps them individually.
00:30 And so, that was really great because you have Kamala
00:33 who sees Carol the way Monica did when she was younger,
00:36 when Carol left and never came back.
00:38 And then you have Carol with all this pressure
00:40 on her shoulders because she feels like she has to
00:42 take care of the entire universe,
00:43 but it's also represented in this woman
00:46 that she sort of, who feels she betrayed
00:49 and abandoned when she was younger, Monica,
00:51 and also this new young woman who thinks
00:54 the sun shines out of her ass.
00:55 So it's like, and that's a lot of pressure.
00:57 So we get to represent these bigger things
00:59 in these individual relationships.
01:00 - Sure.
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