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Sean Gunn chats with THR at the 'Superman' red carpet premiere and discusses what it's like to play a multi-dimensional character like Maxwell Lord and how the billionaire character feels particularly relevant in today's world.
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00:00I talked to you about Maxwell Lord before I'd gotten to have this experience,
00:03and I love that the character can be good or evil depending on the arc,
00:05and he's very nuanced.
00:07What are you most excited to play a character that is this many shades of gray
00:10as opposed to a monosyllabic weasel or a too chatty GI robot?
00:14Well, I think that I personally am many shades of gray.
00:19So it's easier for me to play a character that is closer to myself,
00:25I think, than, you know, weasel who's inherently good,
00:28or GI robot who, oh, my God, like, can we give it up?
00:31The movement that's become GI robot, man?
00:33Can we give it up for GI robot?
00:35Like, what a beautiful man.
00:39From spring to now, what he's become.
00:40What a beautiful non-man.
00:42Yeah, what a man to us.
00:44Yeah.
00:44Were you expecting that reaction?
00:45I love it.
00:47No, I wasn't, but I'm really grateful for it.
00:51Like, it's one of my favorite things that I've ever done in my career
00:55was playing GI robot.
00:57But, like, GI robot, let's be honest, that's the hero that we need.
01:02100%.
01:03Yeah.
01:04The guy who's like, you know what?
01:07Let's kill all the Nazis.
01:09That face, and that's on billboard.
01:11Like, that's literally on flags.
01:12Like, you know, that's what we're all about.
01:15Like, I think that we have a responsibility to say no to Nazis as a people.
01:24Sure.
01:24And his programming is accurate, and I appreciate that.
01:27And the delivery of both of those in the same project is really something special.
01:30Well, thank you very much.
01:31And I'm excited to see Maxwell Lord take the world by storm as he evolves.
01:35Yeah.
01:35I love to play Maxwell Lord.
01:38I'm excited.
01:39Like, you know, you get a tiny taste of him, and really it's an introduction into the character,
01:44into the universe, and I'm really, I'm like jazzed to bring more of him into the world.
01:50And we see Stagg, we see him, we see Luther Corps, we see all these billionaires forming.
01:55Do you feel like that's an undercurrent you want to play with in the commentary much the same way as G.I. Robot?
01:58Like, there's a billionaire undercurrent.
02:00It feels very topical.
02:01Yeah, absolutely.
02:02I mean, that's what it is, right?
02:03We now live in this world where billionaires think that they can put us under their thumb and dominate us.
02:15And, you know, we have a response to that, and let's see where that goes.
02:20And there's a lot of characters in D.C. and organizations in D.C. that have an answer to that,
02:23so I'm excited to see that, hopefully.
02:25Absolutely.
02:25Always a pleasure, man.
02:26I'm really excited.
02:27Great work.
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