1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,410 NARRATOR: OK, Eternals, these are IMDb's Burning Questions. 2 00:00:04,410 --> 00:00:05,550 Eternals assemble. 3 00:00:05,550 --> 00:00:06,750 Great line. 4 00:00:06,750 --> 00:00:09,830 NARRATOR: Which Eternal has the best superpower? 5 00:00:09,830 --> 00:00:10,630 Thena. 6 00:00:10,630 --> 00:00:12,305 She's the strongest fighter. 7 00:00:12,305 --> 00:00:13,268 Yeah, see, I think-- 8 00:00:13,268 --> 00:00:15,810 I don't know if we just are so connected because of the film, 9 00:00:15,810 --> 00:00:18,210 because I think the same, Don is the strong fighter 10 00:00:18,210 --> 00:00:19,437 and protector. 11 00:00:19,437 --> 00:00:21,520 - Pick somebody else besides us. - OK, besides us? 12 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:22,320 Yeah. 13 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,530 Well, people ask me, like, what superpower I want, 14 00:00:25,530 --> 00:00:26,400 it's to fly. 15 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,400 It's great to just, like, fly. 16 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:30,600 I'd never be late again. 17 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,030 If you're thinking more practical day to day life, 18 00:00:33,030 --> 00:00:33,870 I think Sprite. 19 00:00:33,870 --> 00:00:36,245 You can have a lot of fun and do a lot of creative things 20 00:00:36,245 --> 00:00:37,575 with her illusions. 21 00:00:37,575 --> 00:00:39,690 ORAL TRANSLITERATOR: (VOICEOVER) Oh, Druig. 22 00:00:39,690 --> 00:00:41,730 He's got mind control, baby. 23 00:00:41,730 --> 00:00:44,820 It's the only superpower you can use and not be obvious 24 00:00:44,820 --> 00:00:45,998 that you're a superhero. 25 00:00:45,998 --> 00:00:47,790 Like, if I shoot finger guns, they're like, 26 00:00:47,790 --> 00:00:49,180 oh, that guy's a superhero. 27 00:00:49,180 --> 00:00:51,690 Druig can just, like, live normal life 28 00:00:51,690 --> 00:00:53,640 and get everything he wants. 29 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,520 I don't think I want to control people's minds. 30 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,490 It's just too much work, too much responsibility. 31 00:00:59,490 --> 00:01:00,590 Control people's mind-- 32 00:01:00,590 --> 00:01:01,715 That may be the best one. 33 00:01:01,715 --> 00:01:05,370 And then make them-- make them Eternals over and over. 34 00:01:05,370 --> 00:01:08,080 This is what the end of the world looks like. 35 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,271 At least we have front row seats. 36 00:01:10,271 --> 00:01:11,980 You know what's never saved the planet? 37 00:01:11,980 --> 00:01:12,970 Your sarcasm. 38 00:01:12,970 --> 00:01:15,220 NARRATOR: Who is the funniest person on set? 39 00:01:15,220 --> 00:01:17,720 Well, you probably can take a guess. 40 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:18,520 Right? 41 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,305 Kumail Nanjiani. Yeah, I got to say Kumail. 42 00:01:20,305 --> 00:01:21,105 Kumail. 43 00:01:21,105 --> 00:01:23,300 His Bollywood stuff, I laughed so hard. 44 00:01:23,300 --> 00:01:24,100 Yeah. 45 00:01:24,100 --> 00:01:24,910 His dancing. 46 00:01:24,910 --> 00:01:27,610 He's just-- yeah, and he's just witty, and he's just-- 47 00:01:27,610 --> 00:01:28,810 he's a-- he's fun. 48 00:01:28,810 --> 00:01:30,610 Kingo, movie star. 49 00:01:30,610 --> 00:01:32,380 I've directed some things, too. 50 00:01:32,380 --> 00:01:35,060 Definitely Kumail, but don't tell him I said that. 51 00:01:35,060 --> 00:01:35,860 Oh, my God. 52 00:01:35,860 --> 00:01:37,670 Well, Lia is very funny, too. 53 00:01:37,670 --> 00:01:41,330 Oh, we just mess around and nag on each other. 54 00:01:41,330 --> 00:01:44,053 If you told him I said that-- 55 00:01:44,053 --> 00:01:45,970 Lia, you know, it's tough, because sometimes 56 00:01:45,970 --> 00:01:48,940 I'll be like, try and throw her, and she wouldn't get thrown. 57 00:01:48,940 --> 00:01:50,590 She like, always right there. 58 00:01:50,590 --> 00:01:54,271 I put him on the spot a lot in a pretty gruesome way. 59 00:01:54,271 --> 00:01:56,150 At the end of the scene, I would go, OK, Angie, 60 00:01:56,150 --> 00:01:57,400 ask me another question again. 61 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,025 Kumail, give me five different answers. 62 00:01:59,025 --> 00:02:00,170 Action. 63 00:02:00,170 --> 00:02:00,970 Now? 64 00:02:00,970 --> 00:02:01,870 Yes, now. 65 00:02:01,870 --> 00:02:04,600 And now he's going to really come up with these lines, 66 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:06,680 and a lot of them made it into the film. 67 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,103 Hey, who's your gardener? 68 00:02:08,103 --> 00:02:10,270 NARRATOR: What was the best piece of direction ChloƩ 69 00:02:10,270 --> 00:02:12,160 gave you about your character? 70 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,190 I mean, she kind of told me that Kingo is a bit of a child. 71 00:02:15,190 --> 00:02:15,990 You know? 72 00:02:15,990 --> 00:02:18,760 That even though he's 7,000 years, he has this, like, joy 73 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,550 and, like, excitement at everything around him. 74 00:02:22,550 --> 00:02:24,130 She really guided me to that. 75 00:02:24,130 --> 00:02:27,010 She told me to reference Maggie Smith. 76 00:02:27,010 --> 00:02:29,668 You know, being an old soul stuck in the body of a child. 77 00:02:29,668 --> 00:02:31,210 ORAL TRANSLITERATOR: (VOICEOVER) When 78 00:02:31,210 --> 00:02:32,860 she told me to run like a girl. 79 00:02:32,860 --> 00:02:36,230 I think that that was the best thing that she could have said. 80 00:02:36,230 --> 00:02:40,660 I thought of speed skaters, and I thought of Olympic runners. 81 00:02:40,660 --> 00:02:45,460 I mean those women, they are rock stars. 82 00:02:45,460 --> 00:02:48,760 She actually asked me to show my actual personality 83 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,700 and show my action skills. 84 00:02:51,700 --> 00:02:53,440 I think that's one part of her talents, 85 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,570 is she often works with non-actors, 86 00:02:55,570 --> 00:02:58,240 or when she casts actors, it's about not having them pretend 87 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,430 to be something, but trying to pull out something 88 00:03:00,430 --> 00:03:02,470 in them that's true to them. 89 00:03:02,470 --> 00:03:05,080 So she cast us as she saw the characters, 90 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,030 and then asked us to bring ourselves. 91 00:03:07,030 --> 00:03:11,680 Every time one of my cast members open themselves up just 92 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,950 a little more than they think they were capable of, you know, 93 00:03:14,950 --> 00:03:17,080 it's the reason why I become a director, 94 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,960 is to be able to capture these extremely human 95 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:21,280 moments that I cannot script. 96 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,030 [MUSIC PLAYING] 97 00:03:24,030 --> 00:03:25,184