Secret Invasion: Backstage With … Samuel L. Jackson and Olivia Colman in the new Marvel series | Ents & Arts News

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It turns out that Samuel L. Jackson and Olivia Colman have a crush on each other. Now, they’re starring alongside each other in the new Marvel series Secret Invasion. They speak to Sky News about the intrigue surrounding the show.

By Claire Gregory, Host of Backstage

Sat 17 Jun 2023 05:16, United Kingdom

When actors go, you don’t get more respect than Olivia Colman and Samuel L. Jackson.

Both have won Academy Awards in the past few years — Colman won Best Actress for The Favorite in 2019, and Jackson received an Honorary Academy Award last year.

Now the two are paired up in Marvel’s new series Secret Invasion – and they seem to be as fans of each other as they are moviegoers.

Photo: Olivia Colman as Special Agent Sonya Falsworth, and Samuel L. Jackson (below) as Nick Fury in Marvel Studios’ Secret Invasion. Pics: Disney+ / Marvel

“I think I was probably very grateful to you when I first met you,” Coleman told Jackson while speaking to Sky News’ Backstage podcast.

“Whoa, no, you haven’t,” Jackson laughs. “We just looked at each other, and started laughing — we knew how much fun it was going to be.

“When you see someone that you respect and all of a sudden you’re in that space with them, you kind of know, well, that’s going to be super, you know right away if it’s going to be a chore or if it’s going to be fun.”

The series also stars the likes of Emilia Clarke, Don Cheadle, and Martin Freeman – of whom, it turns out, Jackson is a huge fan.

“I didn’t get to work with him, but I went to work that day just to watch him work because I wanted to see him,” Jackson says. “I had to go meet him. I was like, ‘I’m not doing anything with you, but I wanted to meet you so bad.'”

Photo: Jackson says he is a huge fan of British superstar Martin Freeman. Pic: Gareth Gatrell/Disney+/Marvel

While Jackson has been playing Nick Fury in the Marvel franchise since he first appeared in a post-credits scene in 2008’s Iron Man, Colman is a newcomer. However, she does admit that she’s been eager to join the MCU, for some time.

“After every Marvel release, I call my agent and say I want to be at Marvel. I don’t know if they had a say in it, but it eventually did. So, yeah, I’m very happy.”

Secret Invasion is set in the current MCU where a group of mutants are trying to take over Earth. Coleman plays MI6 agent Sonia Falsworth, an old ally of Fury’s – though it’s not clear which side she’s really on.

Jackson asks her if her character is a villain or a heroine.

“I’m an evil heroine, I guess,” she says. “Well, I don’t quite remember what happened and I only watched the first two episodes, so maybe I’m not.”

But Jackson’s memory seems clearer.

“You’re quite a supervillain and gangster. Let’s say — you’re totally gangster and you’re having fun with that.”

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The show is something of a political thriller and definitely seems more mature than some of Marvel’s previous series, with admittedly less action.

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Jackson says the goal was to do something different.

“That’s a decent intrigue and it seems like a Disney+ franchise, and the things that come out there like Loki and Wandavision — they all have their own distinct personalities. And that follows in that canon I think is more interesting than anything else that’s been.”

Secret Invasion will premiere on Disney+ on June 21st

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