Eternals director Chloé Zhao digs into choosing which actor to bring in for the MCU entry's first post-credits scene
But when questions about the film’s two post-credits scenes came up, Zhao’s eyes nervously darted to her publicist sitting nearby.Zhao’s trepidation is understandable. The news that
Suddenly, a small, swirling vortex appears in their ship, and out pops Pip the Troll , who, with a rhetorical flourish, heralds the impending appearance of Eternal — and brother to Thanos — Eros, a.k.a. Starfox. Zhao says she’s been following Styles’ nascent acting career ever since he made his feature debut in Christopher Nolan’s 2017 World War II epic “Dunkirk,” playing a morally questionable British soldier desperate to escape the invading Nazi army.
Eros wasn’t the only major new character Zhao introduces in “Eternals” through a post-credits scene, either. When looking for a contemporary love interest for Sersi in the film, Zhao says she gravitated to one of the character’s historic boyfriends in the comics: Dane Whitman, a.k.a. the Black Knight.The actor was, who at the time was just concluding his eight-season run as the sword-wielding warrior Jon Snow on the HBO behemoth “Game of Thrones.
Cut to the “Eternals” end credits scene, with Dane warily regarding an ancient looking box that holds an even more ancient looking sword with metal that undulates and whispers as if it’s alive: the Ebony Blade. Dane paces back and forth, trying to psych himself up to pick up the sword — which Marvel comics fans know will bestow him with great power and long life, but at the cost of Dane’s eroding sanity and innate goodness.
Harington said that he hoped to allude to Dane’s fate as the Black Knight in the scene with how he regarded the Ebony Blade. “Up until that point, all we’ve seen is a really good guy that we hopefully like,” he said. “I like the idea that this thing is not good for him. With that sword, and what I’ve read about it, what I wanted to capture in that moment was this idea of addiction.”
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