Eternals Director Chloé Zhao on Having the First LGBTQ Relationship and Love Scene in the MCU

With Eternals opening in theaters November 5th, I recently had the opportunity to speak with director Chloé Zhao about making the Marvel movie. During the interview, she talked about how she was able to be the one to show a love scene and the first LGBTQ relationship in the MCU, her first cut of the film, testing the movie to see what was working, how the Blu-ray will include four deleted scenes, what was the last thing she cut before picture locking, and who would have won if the Eternals had fought Thanos. As you’ve seen in the trailers, Marvel’s Eternals follows a group of heroes from beyond the stars who had protected the Earth since the dawn of man and have lived quietly on our planet for 7,000 years. But when the creatures they had come to Earth to defeat mysteriously return, the group is forced to unite to try and save humanity. Eternals boasts a great ensemble cast, and it stars Gemma Chan as humankind-loving Sersi, Richard Madden as the all-powerful Ikaris, Kumail Nanjiani as cosmic-power
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