Karen Gillan Talks ‘Sleeping Dogs' and Also Not Knowing About Star-Lord's Eventual MCU Return
When Professor Veeder (Csokas) is found dead, Freeman (Crowe) revisits the case 10 years later and develops a new interest in Baines (Gillan). Sleeping Dogs plays with the femme fatale trope through Baines, but Gillan is hesitant to use that description for her.
"My interpretation of the character may not match everyone else's, but I liked the idea of it being very theatrical," Gillan told The Hollywood Reporter. "So I thought it would be fun to watch some YouTube videos of people I want to emulate and then do a little camping."
Gillan also directed James Gunn's Guardians of the Wild. We are looking forward to the conclusion of the ``Galaxy'' trilogy. She was surprised by the recent news that Chris Pratt's Peter Quill/Star-Lord would one day return to the MCU. As the Quill-led Guardians movies come to a fitting end, his work after the first volume. 3 Future, along with his Guardians colleagues, remained a big question mark until this parting after the credit report.
"It was pretty surprising, but it was cool as well. I was like, ‘Okay, what's the plan here?'" Gillan says.
With Gunn moving over to co-run DC Studios with producer Peter Safran, Gillan has openly stated that she'd love to play Poison Ivy for her former director, but after the decade's worth of work he already provided her, she's not going to press him on the subject.
"I like to leave things up to the universe a little bit and see what happens, but I would absolutely love to work with James again. He's the best," Gillan shares.
Below, during a recent conversation with THR, Gillan also discusses her highly popular vlog about her final Guardians experience, as well as the candid "in-character" photo she posted of Zoom couples therapy.
So where did Sleeping Dogs fall on your timeline?
Oh my god, since the pandemic, I have no sense of time. I don't know if you're experiencing that as well, but I thought I got married one year ago and I just realized it's been two. (Laughs.) Anyway, I shot [Sleeping Dogs] last February and it would've been after Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, I think.
I don't know if I was really looking for anything specific, but now that I've started working in comedy and genre, I'd like to get into the drama realm a little more. So I wanted to flex that [dramatic] muscle a little bit, but I was pretty open-minded. It just happened to be that way, but I always think that a sure sign that I should do something is when I read a book and start reading the lines out loud just for fun. . So, it's only for my own benefit, and I think, ``If I'm having fun doing this now, I might as well turn it into a job.''
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