And in fact, not just not be afraid of it, but to embrace it.”Ī veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, Iwuji naturally looked to Shakespeare’s most dramatic kings - Henry IV, Richard III, Lear - as guiding stars. “It was written in a way that it was clear that I had to ground it,” he said, “But also not be afraid of the theatricality of the character. Iwuji said he had to walk a fine line to give the High Evolutionary menacing seriousness and the bombastic presence of a true comic book mad scientist at the same time. In Marvel Comics, the High Evolutionary (real name Herbert Wyndham) is a guy who did mad science on a magic mountain, made a cow-person servant who was the midwife at the birth of the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, and once de-evolved himself into a pile of primordial ooze on purpose. Oh, OK, here we go,” he told Polygon in a video interview.Īnd that was just the movie script. “From the first page of reading the script, I was like, Oh. It didn’t take long for actor Chukwudi Iwuji to realize the High Evolutionary - the Marvel Comics villain he portrays in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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