Secret Invasion: Backstage With… Samuel L Jackson and Olivia Colman on their new Marvel collection

As actors go you aren’t getting many extra revered than Olivia Colman and Samuel L Jackson.

Both have taken house Oscars in the previous few years – Colman successful finest actress for The Favourite in 2019, and Jackson receiving an honorary Academy Award final yr.

Now the 2 have been paired up for brand new Marvel collection Secret Invasion – and it appears they’re as a lot followers of each other as movie-goers are of them.

“I think I might have curtsied to you when I first met you,” Colman tells Jackson whereas talking to Sky News’ Backstage podcast.

“Stop it, no you didn’t,” Jackson laughs. “We simply checked out one another, began laughing – we knew how a lot enjoyable it was going to be.

“When you see someone that you admire and all of a sudden you’re in that space with them, you kind of know, okay, this is going to be excellent, you know immediately whether it’s going to be a chore or whether it’s going to be fun.”

The collection additionally stars the likes of Emilia Clarke, Don Cheadle and Martin Freeman – whom Jackson, it seems, is a giant fan of.

“I didn’t get to work with him, but I went to work that day just to watch him work because I wanted to see it,” Jackson says. “I had to go meet him. I was like, ‘I’m not doing anything with you, but I wanted to meet you so bad’.”

While Jackson has been enjoying Nick Fury within the Marvel franchise since he first appeared in a post-credits scene in 2008’s Iron Man, Colman is a newcomer. However, she admits she has been eager to hitch the cinematic world, or MCU, for a while.

“After every Marvel release I phone my agent and say I want to be in a Marvel. I don’t know if she had any say in it, but it eventually happened. So, yeah, I’m thrilled.”

Secret Invasion is about within the current MCU as a gaggle of shapeshifters try and take over Earth. Colman performs MI6 agent Sonya Falsworth, an outdated ally of Fury’s – although it isn’t clear whose aspect she’s actually on.

Jackson asks her if her character is a villain or a villainous hero.

“I’m a villainous hero, I think,” she says. “Well, I can’t remember quite what happens and I’ve only seen the first two episodes, so maybe I’m not.”

But Jackson’s reminiscence appears clearer.

“You’re a villainous hero and totally, totally, totally gangster. Let’s say that – you are totally gangster and you enjoy it.”

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The present is one thing of a political thriller and definitely appears extra mature than a number of the earlier Marvel collection, with admittedly much less motion.

Jackson says the goal was to do one thing completely different.

“This is proper intrigue and it seems like the Disney+ franchise, the things that come through there like Loki and Wandavision – they all have their own distinct personalities. And this is following in that canon I think in terms of it being more intrigue than anything else has been.”

Secret Invasion is out on Disney+ on 21 June