Frank Grillo reveals key difference in working in MCU and DCU
Frank Grillo admits it can be "a little scary" not knowing what's coming next on the set of a Marvel movie.
Frank Grillo has admitted working on a Marvel film can be "a little fly by the seat of your pants".
The 60-year-old actor appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Brock Rumlow / Crossbones and Rick Flag Sr in Creature in the DC Universe and was asked to compare what it's like working for the rival studios.
He told People: “It’s different. It’s not organised in the same way. [DC] is really like all the scripts are in front of you and you kind of have a real secure handle on what’s happening.
“And there’s nothing wrong with it, but [Marvel] was a little fly by the seat of your pants.”
With the MCU, Grillo doesn't like not knowing what is coming next for his character.
He said: “For me, it’s a little scary to do it that way."
Meanwhile, in other Marvel-related news, it was recently revealed that Kumail Nanjiani signed up for six Marvel movies with Eternals - despite needing therapy after the first film was savaged by critics.
The 47-year-old actor played the role of Kingo in Chloe Zhao’s 2021 movie and originally believed his character would become a vital part of the MCU, but after the movie tanked, all of Marvel’s plans for Kingo were abandoned.
Speaking on fellow stand-up comedian Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out podcast, Nanjiani revealed the Marvel disappointment is discussed in his new stand-up special.
He said: “I talked about how I was in this big movie. It came out right after COVID, so I had a year and a half at home to just be like, ‘Oh, when this thing comes out!' But then it came out and it got really bad reviews and it didn’t do that well. It shattered me too much. That’s when I was like, ‘Oh I need to go to therapy to figure this out.'
“I was like, ‘Oh, this is going to be my job for the next 10 years’. I signed on for six movies. I signed on for a video game. I signed on for a theme park ride. They make you sign up for all this stuff. And you’re like, ‘This is the next 10 years of my life, so I’ll be doing Marvel movies every year and, in between, I’ll do my own little things, whatever I want to do.’ And then none of that happened.”
Kumail previously spoke about how he struggled to cope after the movie failed to impress critics.
He told Michael Rosenbaum's Inside of You podcast: "I knew it wasn't me. I think that there were a lot of things that went into it. I love that movie and I'm very proud of that movie. I've seen that movie a bunch of times because it's my kind of movie, and a lot of my stuff I don't watch.
"It was really, really hard because Marvel thought that movie was going to be really, really well reviewed, so they lifted the embargo early and put it in some fancy movie festivals and they sent us on a big global tour to promote the movie right as the embargo lifted.
"The reviews were bad, and I was too aware of it. I was reading every review and checking too much. I think there was some weird soup in the atmosphere for why that movie got slammed so much, and I think not many much of it has to do with the actual quality of the movie.
"It was really hard and that was when I thought it was unfair to me and unfair to Emily (V. Gordon, his wife) and I can't approach my work this way anymore. Some s***'s gotta change, so I started counselling and I still talk to my therapist about that."
