Karen Gillan has cemented her place in the MCU character in Guardians of the Galaxy. It has come to light that she used the star of many of the best Westerns ever made, Clint Eastwood, as a major inspiration.
Karen Gillan was inspired by Clint Eastwood
Gillan made her debut as Nebula in 2014 when the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie introduced director James Gunn and his array of colourful heroes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The star explained in an interview with BBC Radio 1 that a single piece of direction from Gunn, with an Eastwood edge, completely changed her approach to the character in the Marvel movies.
She said: “He created my whole character with one single note. On my first day of filming, I came in and I was doing my generic villain thing. He was like: ‘Let’s mix this up, let’s try something else. Speak like Marilyn Monroe/Clint Eastwood, try that’.
“And then it created the entire character. The voice, it informed the way I moved, I started slinking around more. That is a piece of direction that is the best I’ve ever heard.”
Popular actor Clint Eastwood has had a storied career spanning seven decades, but RadarOnline.com has learned the Rawhide star may be hanging up his cowboy hat and retiring from Tinseltown forever as pals fear his health is in decline.
“Clint goes through spells of talking about retirement, but what’s worse for him, he feels the movie industry has retired on him,” said an insider. “He’s had a 50-year partnership with Warner Brothers, but there are new people in charge there now and they were very disappointed Clint’s last movie Cry Macho bombed at the box office.
“He was happy to finally get a go-ahead from Warner for his new film, but he isn’t counting on it happening again.”
The Pale Rider star, who turns 93 on May 31, is gearing up to shoot his final film, a thrilled called Juror No. 2 with Toni Collette and Nicholas Hoult, and cameras are expected to roll in mid-June.
