Chiwetel Ejiofor on his Marvel Conflicts of Interest

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British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in his second Marvel property after being cast as Rex Strickland in ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ alongside Tom Hardy. Previously playing Karl Mordo in the MCU, he explains how he came to be in two conflicting comic book franchises, as well as revealing which jobs he found to be the most physically dangerous.     The third film of the trilogy, ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ stars Tom Hardy, Juno Temple and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and arrives in cinemas on Friday 25th October.  Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I understand yourself and Juno were essentially the new kids at school.

00:05That's true, yeah.

00:06In what way was the set of Venom different to any other movie set that you've been on before?

00:10Was there anything interesting that might have stood out to you?

00:12Well, yeah. I think, first of all, the set itself was incredible.

00:16And everything was really practical.

00:19And that's clearly the way that Kelly had envisaged it.

00:22She just wanted it all to feel as real as possible.

00:26These incredible labs, amazing spaces.

00:29And then when we were doing all the effects, which you see in the second half of the film,

00:34these were all real explosions.

00:37So the VFX is there, but it adds another layer,

00:40because there was a kind of practical engagement with it on the day as well.

00:44So I just thought that her knowledge of the world,

00:47and having spent the best part of ten years with Tom working on it,

00:51just really gave a kind of real three-dimensional quality to just being engaged with it,

00:56which was a real privilege, actually.

00:58It's wonderful to see you part of this cast, but I know this is another Marvel property.

01:02Was there any complications in jumping on board, or was it just a seamless casting?

01:06Yeah, I mean, it felt pretty seamless in a way.

01:10It's a completely different character,

01:12and so it felt like the desire would be just to approach it as any other character.

01:19And so that was exciting.

01:22I felt very privileged to be asked to join it.

01:25I imagine you get stuck in in a lot of action films at this point throughout your career.

01:28Do you have any notable film-based injuries or scars or anything?

01:34You look at one and be like, oh, that's my Children of Men scar,

01:36that's my Doctor Strange ache, or something.

01:38Yeah, I don't, actually.

01:40I mean, I've been all right, I've been fortunate.

01:43I feel like the injuries really come, strangely enough, from doing Shakespearean plays on stage.

01:49So any Shakespearean actor has a few injuries from the fights in Romeo and Juliet or Henry V.

01:56I think you could do a whole documentary of Shakespearean injuries at this point.

02:00But this, although there are Shakespearean overtones in some of the Marvel universe, as everybody knows,

02:05I haven't actually been injured too much.

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