Eternals: Richard Madden and Gemma Chan on Their Powers and Filming the First MCU Love Scene

With director Chloé Zhao’s Eternals opening in theaters November 5th, I recently got to speak with Richard Madden and Gemma Chan about making the Marvel movie. During the fun interview, they revealed who would have won if the Eternals had fought Thanos, what it was like filming the first MCU love scene, if they debated who was the strongest Eternal and how they figured out their powers, and more. As you’ve seen in the trailers, Marvel’s Eternals follows a group of heroes from beyond the stars who had protected the Earth since the dawn of man and have lived quietly on our planet for 7,000 years. But when the creatures they had come to Earth to defeat mysteriously return, the group is forced to unite to try and save humanity. Eternals boasts a great ensemble cast, and it stars Gemma Chan as humankind-loving Sersi, Richard Madden as the all-powerful Ikaris, Kumail Nanjiani as cosmic-powered Kingo, Lia McHugh as the eternally young, old-soul Sprite, Brian Tyree Henry as the intelligent inventor Phasto