Eternals: Kumail Nanjiani and Lauren Ridloff on What It Means to Join MCU

With Eternals opening in theaters November 5th, I recently got to speak with Kumail Nanjiani and Lauren Ridloff about making the Marvel movie. During the interview, they talked about what it meant joining the MCU, if the Eternals could have beaten Thanos, if they asked Marvel and director Chloé Zhao about how powerful their characters powers were and debated who was the most powerful Eternal on set, and more. In addition, Nanjiani revealed that they changed his powers between his first and second meeting with Marvel, and how his character was originally going to wield two swords. As you’ve seen in the trailers and clips, 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-lovin