Karen Gillan Returns as Nebula for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’
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We’ve seen Karen Gillan as the alien Nebula in the first two installments of Guardians of the Galaxy. She’s also reprised the role for other Marvel franchises like Avengers and Thor.
We can look for her again in the third movie, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, reports ComingSoon.net.
If the character is new to you, Nebula is a Luphomoid, appearing human-like but has cybernetic enhancements. She starts off as a villain, the daughter of a warlord, but then switches gears, joining the guardians in their quest to protect the galaxy.
Here's a peek at the trailer for the original movie:
Gillan is ready to return to the role and has a different take on it this time around. When speaking to The Wrap, she said, “There’s been way more improv for me this time around than I have ever given before.”
In the past, she’s had the opportunity to improvise her scenes, explaining: “I will say, I’ve improvised a fair bit of Nebula because I don’t know if you saw Endgame, which seems like — (laughs) — that’s a ridiculous question. But basically, all of the stuff with Robert Downey Jr. at the beginning was like, that whole montage was improvised.”
She goes on to describe what she saw in the script and how she interpreted it, saying, “Because all that was written was oh, they play football. They eat, they do this. And then we kind of ended up getting to improvise because he’s an amazing improviser. And so there was all this stuff about them playing the game and how much it meant to Nebula that she actually got to win something. And so she’s been slowly getting more improv-y.”
We love Gillan on-screen and in person, she's so smart and inventive, it’s nice to learn that she’s able to put herself into the making of the movie.
You can look for the end result in May 2023, when the movie is scheduled to premiere. In the meantime, you can find her in the Judd Apatow movie The Bubble, currently streaming via Netflix.
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