'Eternals' stars Gemma Chan and Richard Madden on that sex scene and their MCU futures
Richard Madden and Gemma Chan don't quite remember how they met.
"I think we met through some mutual friends and ended up falling in together and just really getting on," Madden said.
The longtime friends co-star as lovers in Marvel's epic "Eternals," about an ancient race of powerful beings who struggle against meddling in matters affecting mankind.
After casting Madden first in the role of Ikaris, a Superman-like hero with super strength and laser vision, director Chloe Zhao struggled to find an actor to play his romantic counterpart, Sersi.
"I always try to cast as much from real life as possible," said the director. "We had read so many women for Sersi and we still couldn't make our mind up. And then Richard says, 'You should read my friend, Gemma Chan. We're really close.' So then we brought Gemma in to read with Richard but also by herself. Right away, we were like, 'Oh my God, that's our Sersi.'
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