Unlike standard mainstream superhero fare that features a villain with clearly malevolent intentions, the show “asks the audience to make up their own minds,” says Clarke. “It’s presenting the audience with a moral quandary and a very timely question … about refugees and about whether violence and war has an understandable reason for being or whether it doesn’t.”
“That causes her to return to her father’s side and, in the beginning, tentatively help him,” says Selim, who adds that part of G’iah’s journey is not just about figuring out her place as a warrior, but finding her way as one who is also ethical.A slew of headlines painted Marvel as a franchise in trouble. The full picture is more complicated — but for some, the frustration is all too real.
“I think Emilia and I can see in each other enough to be able to relax and just not know together,” says Mendelsohn on exploring their onscreen dynamic. “We just kind of let ourselves venture into a bit of a magic zone. It felt like there was an intimacy that was just allowed to be and that was very good.”“We’d sit on the bench and just talk about what it was like to grow up being actors because we both started quite young,” says Mendelsohn.