Tim Blake Nelson talks to THR at San Diego Comic-Con about going through the seven stages of grief before stepping into his villain role for 'Captain America: Brave New World.' Plus, he compares what it was like working on the original 2008 'Hulk' and working in the Marvel Cinematic Universe now.
00:00What has it been like returning to the MCU with this movie?
00:03I had given up on getting to play the leader because it's been, at this point, almost 20 years.
00:13And there was a lot of despair involved.
00:17You know, I went through the seven stages of grief over those decades.
00:23But now I can say I'm glad it took this long because it has made the character more interesting.
00:32And I'm glad that I'm old enough now and have enough experiences in my life to be able to play this villain in this way where he and I have the life experience to justify everything he does.
00:50Because the most interesting villains are justified.
00:53How did working on a Marvel film in 2008 compare to working on this movie now after just so many years of major Marvel movies?
01:01Marvel was really working to define itself in incredibly compelling ways back then.
01:10And being on the original Hulk in 2008 and watching the artists figure out how it was all going to work.
01:26And I'm talking about everyone from Kevin Feige, who was overseeing it, to Louis Leterrier, the director, the collaboration with Edward Norton and Bill Hurd and Tim Roth.
01:41It was terra incognita.
01:46It was like laying, you know, the cartoons where you're laying, the characters laying the railroad track in front of the locomotive while it's hurtling forward.
01:59And now we're over 20 years in to the MCU and it's this unprecedented phenomenon in the history of cinema.
02:11You've never had an entire universe over this number of films with this such a wide gamut of characters that is ever expanding in this art form.
02:30And to be able to come back into it at this stage has been incredible.
02:37But now we're going to be able to win it at this time.
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