‘The Dark Knight Rises’ does not beat ‘The Avengers. ‘ The reason? It is a totally different kind of movie – to compare them is an empty exercise.
I loved working with ‘The Avengers’ cast and we had a great time, but it was a job, and they had other commitments during that job, so they would go off and do other things.
It was always the intent, in a larger arc, to split the Avengers up before the greatest threat that they’ve ever seen.
I think if I’d been born ten years earlier when Ma was at the height of ‘Avengers’ fame, it would have been a different kettle of fish altogether, but she was very much a ma first and an actress second for my formative years.
I think we all remember Emma Peel from ‘The Avengers,’ the feminist icon that she was in the late ’60s.
What we love about working at Marvel is they’ll have a crazy opening for a movie like ‘The Avengers’ – like, a record-breaking all-time opening – and you get to the office on Monday, and they don’t even have a pizza; it’s back-to-work time.
No More Avengers! There’s nothing new to get out of it – I want to go forward, not backward.
I have a tendency to drift toward action. Some of my favorite films are ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith,’ ‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘The Fifth Element,’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ and ‘The Avengers.’
Do you know, I have no idea how I got ‘The Avengers’? I’d left the Royal Shakespeare Company, and I was one of a long list of girls, and got it on my audition.
I never thought I would be Spider-Man in an ‘Avengers’ movie, but it’s such a surreal experience, dude. It’s so crazy.
Getting a movie made is a miracle… because the studios are only interested in making ‘The Avengers.’
Well I grew up following most of the major titles like ‘Fantastic Four,’ ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Avengers,’ etc. But I had also a lot of love for the smaller titles like ‘Master of Kung Fu,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘The Defenders,’ ‘Inhumans,’ and of course Power-Man and Iron Fist.’
I’m like a Depression-era person as far as acting goes. It’s sort of like, grab it while you can and make the most of what’s in front of you. The first ‘Avengers’ opened up a host of things that I’ve been struggling to get made for a long period of time.
There would be no Marvel without ‘Swingers’; there would be no Jon Favreau directing ‘Iron Man,’ no Robert Downey Jr. playing Iron Man; no ‘Avengers.’
I’ve got nothing against big-budget values. I mean, I was very proud of ‘The Avengers,’ the part that I played in it, albeit a small one. It was thrilling to be part of it. But it’s so huge that you can never really wrap your mind around it.
Making ‘The Avengers’ was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.
If the Loki in ‘Thor’ was about a spiritual confusion – ‘Who am I? How do I belong in this world?’ – the Loki in ‘Avengers’ is, ‘I know exactly who I am, and I’m going to make this world belong to me.’
They’re inherently good people, every single person that I’ve ever worked with on an ‘Avengers’ film. I think they want to do good, and they want people to be happy, and they want to speak what they believe.
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