'Avengers: Doomsday' Cast on Why Chris Evans Returned, Doctor Doom's Past & the Original X-Men — Transcript

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1. 0:00It's a good question.
2. 0:00>> 20 minutes of traps.
3. 0:02>> [laughter]
4. 0:03>> That's what this is.
5. 0:04>> Here we go. Let's get to it, everyone.
6. 0:06So, here's where I want to start. I
7. 0:07understand from the Russos that just two
8. 0:10of you got the full script. Is that
9. 0:12right?
10. 0:14Did the rest
11. 0:14>> No, I don't know. I didn't bother to
12. 0:16read it.
13. 0:18Cuz I knew it was going to change.
14. 0:19>> Oh, well.
15. 0:20>> I got two scripts and threw them away.
16. 0:22>> So, you ad-libbed the entire thing.
17. 0:24That's
18. 0:25understandable. Why not? But here's
19. 0:26here's what Well, has So, have any of
20. 0:28you seen the movie yet then?
21. 0:30No one has seen a cut of the film.
22. 0:32What? Well, maybe Oh, maybe.
23. 0:35>> I'm on the inside track and it is
24. 0:39absolutely fantastic.
25. 0:42>> Is it as good as that Hall H trailer we
26. 0:44just saw?
27. 0:45>> It's like that except extra. And I'll
28. 0:48I'll sidebar with all of you.
29. 0:50>> Yes. Fill everyone in on it. Yeah.
30. 0:52>> I think we may redeem ourselves yet.
31. 0:54>> But for those of you who did not get the
32. 0:55full script at this point, do you know
33. 0:57what happens or you're all still in the
34. 0:58dark?
35. 0:59>> Wait, who didn't get the full script?
36. 1:01>> We all got the full script.
37. 1:02>> The Russos are lying to you to create
38. 1:03some kind of story.
39. 1:04>> Yeah, we have 50 versions.
40. 1:07>> Oh, so that's the thing. Okay.
41. 1:09>> Which script? Which one are you talking
42. 1:10about?
43. 1:11>> 49.
44. 1:12>> [laughter]
45. 1:12>> 49? Yeah, no. I
46. 1:14Okay.
47. 1:16>> We know what happens. We're not going to
48. 1:18tell you.
49. 1:19>> No, no. I'm not asking you to. I'm just
50. 1:21curious like how much you know.
51. 1:23>> Every single one of us.
52. 1:25>> All right. [laughter]
53. 1:26I That's just what I'm curious how much
54. 1:28you guys get to know what everyone else
55. 1:30is doing.
56. 1:31>> if like we didn't know? Like what what
57. 1:33is the
58. 1:33>> Maybe a little bit.
59. 1:34>> Yeah, I know. I think that's the thing.
60. 1:35>> Yeah, maybe a little bit. No, but
61. 1:36>> I didn't get the script.
62. 1:38>> Perfect. Thank you. Glad to know someone
63. 1:40does not know what's happening in this
64. 1:41movie. No, so um but Robert, considering
65. 1:44you're you're playing Doom, what
66. 1:46noticeable similarities are there
67. 1:48between Doom and Tony Stark? Like is
68. 1:51there a through line between these guys?
69. 1:53>> I I mean, there's the the science thing
70. 1:56and then they're considered, you know,
71. 1:58pretty brilliant guys.
72. 2:01Um
73. 2:01but Tony had the the trauma that kind of
74. 2:04turned him into a hero, and and Doom's
75. 2:07got the exact opposite to where it takes
76. 2:11the prowess of all of these folks to go
77. 2:14up against him, and it was uh it was a
78. 2:17joy to behold. It was really weird being
79. 2:19on the other side of a bad guy mask
80. 2:21because it's just such a isolated vibe,
81. 2:23and I'm seeing them all like socializing
82. 2:26and stuff, and I'm I'm the enemy.
83. 2:28>> Well, [snorts] that's
84. 2:29right. Well, I was going to ask because
85. 2:30you guys you've shared so many of these
86. 2:32films together and had, I would assume,
87. 2:34a very different working dynamic on this
88. 2:36than those.
89. 2:38>> You know, I was saying earlier it was
90. 2:39almost like going back to 2011 on the
91. 2:42first Avengers cuz at the beginning of
92. 2:44that, you know, you're you're kind of
93. 2:45the new kid on the block, and you're
94. 2:46excited to even be there, and I would
95. 2:47find myself during that movie
96. 2:50uh watching. You know, you're in the
97. 2:51scene, but then you're just like,
98. 2:53you know, Robert Downey Jr. is playing
99. 2:55Tony Stark, and oh, I have a line.
100. 2:58>> [laughter]
101. 2:58>> And on this one, I felt that a little
102. 3:00bit again, just kind of watching you do
103. 3:02this
104. 3:03thing that I couldn't wait to see. I was
105. 3:05like, all right, what's
106. 3:07let's see it, you know, and
107. 3:08and just kind of being uh a fan.
108. 3:11>> Mhm. Does it Does the film, do the
109. 3:13characters, do you all acknowledge that
110. 3:15he looks like Tony Stark? Like, does
111. 3:17that add emotional stakes to the action
112. 3:20here that you're
113. 3:21>> touch that. Just FYI, we can't touch
114. 3:23that.
115. 3:23>> Can't touch this.
116. 3:24>> Uh please, you can continue singing. No.
117. 3:27Uh okay, understood. All right, got it.
118. 3:29Uh so, the answer's yes.
119. 3:31Um no. Um
120. 3:32Okay. Um
121. 3:33Pedro, for you,
122. 3:35Doom is what from the footage that we
123. 3:38got to see today, Doom is from the
124. 3:40Fantastic Four universe. Sue talks about
125. 3:42him. They knew him. She thought she
126. 3:43could help him. So, do the Fantastic
127. 3:45Four feel a like a personal
128. 3:47responsibility in any way for him being
129. 3:50kind of unleashed on the world.
130. 3:54>> No.
131. 3:55>> [laughter]
132. 3:58>> But you had to think about it.
133. 3:59>> question.
134. 4:01>> [laughter]
135. 4:02>> I did have to think about it and the
136. 4:03answer is no.
137. 4:04>> Think about it because you don't want a
138. 4:06sniper to take you out or really there's
139. 4:08it's more complex than that.
140. 4:09>> understand that we're all responsible
141. 4:11for ourselves.
142. 4:16>> [laughter]
143. 4:18>> You're catching us at the end of a press
144. 4:20day.
145. 4:20>> [laughter]
146. 4:22>> This is going to be fun.
147. 4:23>> The world that we're in
148. 4:24>> Uh-huh.
149. 4:25>> and the way that I understand it through
150. 4:27Reed at least um is very singular to um
151. 4:32to to to
152. 4:35the relationship that I have to Doom and
153. 4:38and I guess there is a big barrier
154. 4:40between the context that we all have as
155. 4:43audience members to the experience of
156. 4:45Avengers and the incredible way that all
157. 4:48of it is threaded together as we have
158. 4:51X-Men sitting with us um within this
159. 4:53group but it's very easy for me to be
160. 4:56very kind of like single focused um
161. 5:00through the through the perspective of
162. 5:02the characters as it relates to somebody
163. 5:04like
164. 5:05Victor von Doom.
165. 5:08>> I just want to remind I just want to
166. 5:10remind you to look into the camera as
167. 5:12you're answering these questions.
168. 5:13>> verging on filibuster. Would you like
169. 5:15another one?
170. 5:16>> [laughter]
171. 5:17>> That was great.
172. 5:18>> Yeah, no that was fantastic. Thank you.
173. 5:19>> Did you
174. 5:20I didn't I didn't catch I didn't catch
175. 5:22Could you repeat it?
176. 5:23>> [laughter]
177. 5:24>> What did you
178. 5:25>> I tried
179. 5:25>> Just give me the short answer.
180. 5:27>> No, but it was a great answer.
181. 5:28>> Um for for you two guys in the in the
182. 5:30footage um there's kind of a montage of
183. 5:33the Avengers with their kids.
184. 5:35Um
185. 5:36are we safe in making an assumption that
186. 5:40those kids are being highlighted because
187. 5:42they might be a target in any way?
188. 5:46>> I think we can't touch that question
189. 5:48either. I'm really I mean
190. 5:50>> I think you have the hardest job of all
191. 5:51of us.
192. 5:51>> I was going to say, since it's a really
193. 5:52tough question that you have
194. 5:54because I it's it's a good question.
195. 5:56>> Okay.
196. 5:57>> It's a good question.
197. 5:57>> 20 minutes of traps.
198. 5:59>> [laughter]
199. 6:01>> That's what this is. But
200. 6:04probably
201. 6:05Doom wants to Doom wants to go after
202. 6:07people where it hurts most. Is that a
203. 6:11okay way of putting it?
204. 6:12You want to He wants to get their
205. 6:14attention in a in a
206. 6:15very high-stakes way.
207. 6:18>> Oh, man.
208. 6:20>> We We Should we talk about the Odyssey?
209. 6:23>> We can.
210. 6:24>> [laughter]
211. 6:24>> Actually, I haven't seen it.
212. 6:25>> Who has seen it?
213. 6:26>> Don't say anything yet.
214. 6:26>> No, oh, you don't know how it ends.
215. 6:29Oh.
216. 6:30Okay.
217. 6:30>> Tell them you're doing something really
218. 6:31different. He's really nice.
219. 6:33>> [laughter]
220. 6:34>> Yeah, that'll work. That'll work. Okay,
221. 6:36Rebecca.
222. 6:36>> Yeah.
223. 6:37>> Yes. Um, a lot has changed over the
224. 6:39years with superhero makeup and and what
225. 6:42can be done to transfer or transform
226. 6:45someone um, in the way that you do
227. 6:47specifically for Mystique. How different
228. 6:49was it for you this time?
229. 6:52>> Uh, apparently they were no longer
230. 6:54interested in waiting for actors to be
231. 6:56processed. So, it was much faster.
232. 6:59>> Okay.
233. 7:00>> Yes.
234. 7:00>> Okay.
235. 7:01>> Uh, that said, the original
236. 7:03transformation that I went through for
237. 7:04those first three X-Men movies was
238. 7:06really imperative to that character for
239. 7:08me. It really put me in just the right
240. 7:10headspace to play somebody as angry as
241. 7:13Mystique.
242. 7:14>> [laughter]
243. 7:16>> That makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Um, I
244. 7:18it seems like from what we've seen in
245. 7:20the trailer, there are some echoes of
246. 7:21your classic uh, Mystique Wolverine
247. 7:24fight sequence uh, from the original
248. 7:26X-Men in your Doomsday fight sequence
249. 7:28with with uh, Florence Pugh. How How do
250. 7:31they compare, those fights?
251. 7:33>> Uh, well, one's with Yelena and one's
252. 7:36with Wolverine. So.
253. 7:38>> That's
254. 7:39>> Mhm. But, in terms of scale, in terms of
255. 7:41>> You know, because we were with a
256. 7:42different we were with Fox and these
257. 7:44these are now a different studio. So
258. 7:46actually Misty had a slightly different
259. 7:50fight style back then
260. 7:52than now.
261. 7:53But I mean just as fierce.
262. 7:56Just
263. 7:57you know, it was really fun working with
264. 7:59Lawrence and um
265. 8:01I mean I think it's
266. 8:02the secret's out it's out, right? It's
267. 8:03in the trailer. I think we can say that.
268. 8:05>> It was a big moment and you and and
269. 8:08Kelsey being back. I have to say we just
270. 8:10nerded out and I think it
271. 8:13lit up this constellation of like
272. 8:15excitement and like this couldn't have
273. 8:17been easy to pull off. The story
274. 8:18encompasses it and again having seen
275. 8:22everything that I won't talk to you
276. 8:23about it's it's just incredible.
277. 8:26Incredible.
278. 8:27>> Well, for the two of you thank you for
279. 8:29teeing them up. Um you know, yeah.
280. 8:31>> Thank you for that.
281. 8:32>> The the original
282. 8:34No, of course. Of course. I don't want
283. 8:36you to either. But the original X-Men
284. 8:37really paved the way for modern
285. 8:39superhero movies. So
286. 8:41what what is different about superhero
287. 8:43movies now from when you helped launch
288. 8:46them?
289. 8:48>> Boy, I wish I could really answer that
290. 8:50question. I
291. 8:52I really enjoyed being an X-Man. I I
292. 8:54really enjoyed being Beast. I love the
293. 8:56character. I I love him. I
294. 8:58I have a sense of this kind of nobility
295. 9:01about him that he carries himself with a
296. 9:04a deep respect for all life. So that I
297. 9:07think translates into
298. 9:09the superhero universe. I mean honestly
299. 9:11I think that's what we're all here for.
300. 9:13And
301. 9:14it's extraordinary that the these
302. 9:16characters have taken on
303. 9:18a role in our society that actually
304. 9:19reflects the same thing.
305. 9:21It's this this goodwill.
306. 9:23The the hope that actually there is
307. 9:24goodness in all of us and and that good
308. 9:26still triumphs. That's
309. 9:29>> Yeah.
310. 9:29>> pretty great.
311. 9:30>> Well, you recently got to reprise your
312. 9:33perhaps most iconic role Frasier. Did
313. 9:35you ever think a day would come that
314. 9:37this would circle back in your life?
315. 9:39>> not, no. But it did break my heart 22
316. 9:42years ago.
317. 9:43>> Sure.
318. 9:44>> And
319. 9:44I, you know, whatever. My heart I still
320. 9:47wear it on my sleeve.
321. 9:48>> The public requires you.
322. 9:49>> There you go. Right like that. Thank
323. 9:51you.
324. 9:51>> I heard it here first.
325. 9:52>> Love it.
326. 9:53Letitia, huge news with David Johnson
327. 9:56joining the MCU as Black Panther in the
328. 9:59third movie. A lot of people excited
329. 10:00about that.
330. 10:01We'd love to hear your reaction to his
331. 10:03casting as Do we call him
332. 10:05>> T'Challa Jr.? What What can we call him
333. 10:06here? And
334. 10:08>> Prince T'Challa exactly, yeah. And And
335. 10:10what will that relationship be like with
336. 10:12Shuri?
337. 10:12>> Uh firstly, the news was really
338. 10:14beautiful to hear
339. 10:16because I I have a personal connection
340. 10:19to to David.
341. 10:20Um
342. 10:21and
343. 10:22just a special special person. Um good
344. 10:25heart.
345. 10:27And just to see the full circle of that
346. 10:30today. I'm still living in it, you know,
347. 10:32and we're both still like
348. 10:35checking in with each other about it,
349. 10:37but
350. 10:39in terms of what Shuri means to him, you
351. 10:42know, Shuri's gone through so much, you
352. 10:44know, and in this film Doomsday, we see
353. 10:47her growth. We see her,
354. 10:49you know, fully in this position.
355. 10:52Um
356. 10:53as as Black Panther, but also like just
357. 10:56a just a just a renewed woman, you know,
358. 10:58and and powerful and and strong. And
359. 11:02that leadership quality that she's
360. 11:04she's grown up around, you know, with
361. 11:06Ramonda, her mother,
362. 11:08T'Challa, her brother.
363. 11:10Um she now has that that mantle to pass
364. 11:13on and those guidance and
365. 11:15that wisdom to pass on. So it's it's
366. 11:18beautiful to see the arc of this
367. 11:19character. 2018 starting as this
368. 11:22beautiful scientist in the lab just
369. 11:24trying to help her big brother out to
370. 11:26just elevating and growing and now being
371. 11:29like
372. 11:30a source of wisdom for, you
373. 11:33for for her young
374. 11:35her her young nephew is is beautiful. Um
375. 11:38so, yeah, I'm going to have a a really
376. 11:40good time, a lot of fun, and I'm going
377. 11:42to pick on him so much.
378. 11:45>> Did you guys know the news of David
379. 11:46before today or did you find out pretty
380. 11:49much
381. 11:49>> very secretive on this camp.
382. 11:51>> Yeah. Reaction from anyone else?
383. 11:53About David? Yeah.
384. 11:54>> I'm bananas over it.
385. 11:56>> Yeah.
386. 11:56>> I think it's amazing. I think he's
387. 11:58amazing. I think he's joining an amazing
388. 12:00amazing
389. 12:01cast. Mhm.
390. 12:03>> family
391. 12:04>> Yeah.
392. 12:04>> Yeah.
393. 12:05>> Uh David and Louis, now that the new
394. 12:09Avengers, as you guys are called, are
395. 12:11you know, joining forces with the old
396. 12:13Avengers, is there a is there like a is
397. 12:15there a hierarchy? Is there a power
398. 12:17ranking? How how do they their worlds
399. 12:20blend?
400. 12:23>> I mean, there's trouble, for sure. Like,
401. 12:25we definitely approach things
402. 12:27differently
403. 12:28than those guys. And we have different
404. 12:29ideas about how to do things. I mean,
405. 12:32clearly,
406. 12:33we are right,
407. 12:35>> [laughter]
408. 12:35>> but not everyone agrees with us.
409. 12:39>> Yeah. No, well said. It's it's Yeah,
410. 12:41it's definitely kind of a uh
411. 12:43unexpected route to get to the same
412. 12:45destination, but it's it's extra fun.
413. 12:49>> Sure. Um
414. 12:50I No, I
415. 12:54>> Right. Here we go.
416. 12:55Here we go. Thank you, Rob.
417. 12:56>> Um
418. 12:57Paul, if you [snorts] could answer this
419. 12:59one for me. If you think about like
420. 13:01Infinity War was this kind of race
421. 13:03against the clock, this extreme game of
422. 13:05hot potato, Endgame you could kind of
423. 13:08compare to a heist movie, this really
424. 13:10huge, you know, final showdown, then
425. 13:12what is Doomsday? Is there a genre we
426. 13:14could kind of look at to that?
427. 13:16>> Yeah. No, no, thanks.
428. 13:18>> [laughter]
429. 13:20>> Um yeah, it's
430. 13:22well,
431. 13:24is there a genre? I don't know, maybe,
432. 13:25but it's
433. 13:27it does feel
434. 13:28>> Rom-com.
435. 13:29>> [laughter]
436. 13:30>> Between you two.
437. 13:31>> It
438. 13:31It does feel unique. Like this one is
439. 13:33like, "Oh, this has
440. 13:35I haven't seen this.
441. 13:38And I'm excited to see the film because
442. 13:41I I know reading it and being there and
443. 13:43working on it, it's like, "Oh, this this
444. 13:45feels
445. 13:47The enormity of it was apparent and
446. 13:51and it felt just very fresh and and a
447. 13:54little bit Like kind of what Chris was
448. 13:55saying. It's like, "Oh, wow, this I I
449. 13:58feel like it's my first day of school
450. 14:00and um
451. 14:02look at all of these people." And when I
452. 14:04would watch scenes and things that were
453. 14:05going on, it's like, "Wow, I haven't
454. 14:07seen this before and this is really cool
455. 14:08to be here." So,
456. 14:10um what genre that is, I don't really
457. 14:12know, but it's it's it's a good one.
458. 14:14>> Yeah. Yeah. Um you guys have
459. 14:17I guess of them all of you the most
460. 14:19movies together, of course you two
461. 14:21several, but when you started on this
462. 14:23journey, did you feel Did you go into it
463. 14:26feeling like there might be like an
464. 14:27expiration date for when you would want
465. 14:30to be done or was it kind of open-ended
466. 14:33for you? We'll see what comes.
467. 14:36>> Evans, that's got to go to you. You
468. 14:38didn't even want to do it to begin with.
469. 14:40>> It happened.
470. 14:41Um
471. 14:42Hm.
472. 14:43Um
473. 14:44you know, I I I don't know about an
474. 14:45expiration date, but I certainly you
475. 14:47when we finished Endgame in 2018, Lou
476. 14:49and Kevin took me to dinner and they
477. 14:51were like, "We'd love to keep doing
478. 14:52movies with Steve Rogers as Nomad." And
479. 14:54I said, "Okay."
480. 14:56What do you got? And they they showed me
481. 14:57a pitch and it was a great pitch.
482. 14:59Um but for whatever reason, it just
483. 15:00didn't feel right at the time. I kind of
484. 15:02wanted to I was a little precious. I
485. 15:04wanted to preserve it, but I just said,
486. 15:06"Please keep pitching."
487. 15:08Um and over the course of, you know,
488. 15:10eight years, I probably heard at least a
489. 15:11dozen pitches and and
490. 15:14um they were all wonderful. It just
491. 15:15never quite felt right and and you do
492. 15:17start thinking, "Maybe this maybe this
493. 15:19the expe- well, whatever it is, maybe
494. 15:21this
495. 15:22it's not right cuz it's just not right.
496. 15:24And then I got a
497. 15:25phone call from my team saying there's a
498. 15:26rumor Downey's talking to Marvel. And I
499. 15:29was like, "Uh-oh. What what does this
500. 15:31mean?" And
501. 15:32And
502. 15:33all of a sudden it felt right. You know,
503. 15:35Joe gave me the pitch and Downey was
504. 15:36paying and it's just all of a sudden it
505. 15:38was like this is
506. 15:39this is it. So, I guess it's a never say
507. 15:41never, but but
508. 15:43you know, certainly not willing to just
509. 15:44jump back in for anything cuz I think
510. 15:46everyone here is precious with their
511. 15:49their role in the universe and you know,
512. 15:51this this stuff. Yeah. It's it's it's
513. 15:54earned its position over a long period
514. 15:56of time. You don't want to mess with
515. 15:57that.
516. 15:57>> Yeah. Protective of the characters what
517. 15:59they're yeah, going to go through. Um by
518. 16:01the way, your
519. 16:02co-star from
520. 16:04uh The Gray Man, Ryan Gosling, joining
521. 16:05the MCU.
522. 16:07Uh yeah, Ghost Rider. What I mean, what
523. 16:10do you guys think on that one?
524. 16:11>> That's exciting.
525. 16:12>> So exciting.
526. 16:13>> So good.
527. 16:14>> Is there Is there a world where he would
528. 16:18be part of you I don't know. Is there a
529. 16:20world where there could ever be a
530. 16:21crossover? I don't know.
531. 16:24>> I want him and Spider Noir with Nick to
532. 16:27come back in
533. 16:28and be a motorcycle with sidecar.
534. 16:31>> That's a real
535. 16:32>> That would be a real kind of mind Yeah,
536. 16:35getting getting the two of them
537. 16:36together. Um okay, let me ask you guys
538. 16:39this.
539. 16:40Does Secret Wars feel like a part two
540. 16:45to Doomsday or are they separate films?
541. 16:49>> Kind of like how Endgame was to Infinity
542. 16:51War? Is it going to be that kind of
543. 16:52thing?
544. 16:54>> They always want to tie one to the next.
545. 16:57And and you're so right. Like right,
546. 16:59Infinity War was a was a chase film and
547. 17:04Endgame was a heist.
548. 17:06And trust that
549. 17:08we're not doing any We're not into
550. 17:11repeater
551. 17:12status.
552. 17:14But
553. 17:15I think you might be on to something,
554. 17:16brother.
555. 17:17>> Okay.
556. 17:18And that's all they're going to say. Uh
557. 17:20and I'm going to end it there. I won't
558. 17:21put you through uh this pain anymore. Um
559. 17:24no, thank you all so much.
560. 17:25>> happy to be off the hot seat?
561. 17:26>> I I I appreciate it, you guys. Thank you
562. 17:29so much for being here.
563. 17:30>> So hot.
564. 17:32>> All right. Thanks,
565. 17:32everyone.