Don’t say the ‘M’ word.
While New York Comic-Con attendees got the marvel of Captain America star Chris Evans and Guardians of the Galaxy gang Karen Gillan, Chukwudi Iwuji, Michael Rooker, Sean Gunn and Pom Klementieff, all followed in the careful footsteps of other actors at New York Comic-Con this week, read Ewan McGregor and David Tennant, in being largely tight-lipped about struck companies or work. The actors strike is now in its 94th day.
Instead, Evans discussed his dog, Dodger, his love for both Halloween and Christmas and a desire to return to Broadway.
“I’m looking (for a play),” Evans told the crowd. “I’d love to actually try and find something next year, but it’s tough because you find something that you are kind of into that could be cool but like I said, once you’re in it, you are in it. (A show) usually runs three, four or five months. So, it’s got to be something that you don’t just love, but it’s got to be something that you’re ready to explore from different angles every single night for a very long time.”
Evans starred in the 2018 Broadway revival of the Kenneth Lonergan penned play, Lobby Hero, playing a cop and starred opposite Michael Cera, Bel Powley and Brian Tyree Henry. The show followed a security guard (Cera) in his late 20s, his strict supervisor (Henry), and an overbearing cop (Evans) and his rookie female partner. The show is set in a foyer of a middle-income Manhattan apartment building in the middle of the night
(L-R) Pom Klementieff, Sean Gunn, Michael Rooker, Chukwudi Iwuji, Karen Gillan, and Ashley Victoria Robinson.
At the Guardians of the Galaxy session earlier today at the Javits Center, the emcee quipped to the excited crowd that they were at “The Security Guards of the Milky Way” discussion.
In between talk about who would survive in space, aromatherapy scents and who sleeps through their alarm, Guardians of the Galaxy came up albeit briefly.
Gillian revealed that it took four hours in the makeup chair every day to transform into her character Nebula. The actress also explained how she came up with Nebula’s voice.
“James Gunn was like, do a voice like Marilyn Monroe and Clint Eastwood,” she explained.
Iwuji also spoke about Gunn, who offered him a role in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3. while they were making Peacemaker for HBO Max.
‘He came up and said, “I don’t know what your schedule is but I’d like you to play The High Evolutionary in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3.,”” Iwuji said. “It was weird that first day turning up (on set) and thinking I’m really doing this and they haven’t fired me yet.”
We have been told that Marvel Studios had nothing to do with these actors’ appearances today at NYCC.
The Comic-Con appearances came a three days after AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA contract talks broke down, with the Fran Drescher-led guild accusing studios of using “bully tactics” and “the same failed strategy they tried to inflict on the WGA” to cripple the deliberations. The two sides have been unable to find a way to mutually cut the Gordian knot of SAG-AFTRA’s revenue-sharing proposal as well as the issue of AI.
Similar to SDCC, SAG-AFTRA Chief Negotiator and National Executive Director is putting in an appearance at NYCC to talk about the industry dilemmas with AI and how they impact actors. He spoke with Deadline today, praising the SAG-AFTRA interim agreement cleared Taylor Swift:Eras Tour at the box office, as well as slamming Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos’ remarks that the guild’s profit-sharing proposal was a “levy on subscribers.”
