Eternals Star Gemma Chan Reveals Who are the Thinkers and the Fighters in the Group

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The Eternals is a rather large team as compared to the Avengers or the Guardians of the Galaxy and usually, the dynamics of the group relies on how many members are there. As for these age-old band of superheroes, some are the thinkers and some are the better fighters as revealed by the star of the movie, Gemma Chan, who plays Sersi in the upcoming film.

In a featurette titled "In the Beginning," Gemma Chan revealed that five Eternals are the thinkers of the group, herself included, with Ajak, Sprite, Phastos, and Druig. The other members of the Eternals are those she calls the "stronger fighters" with Ikaris, Gilgamesh, Thena, Makkari, and Kingo. Not that the thinkers cannot fight, it's just that they use brains over brute force for that matter.

In the same featurette, it has been teased that the film will have a whole different film than the previous releases of Marvel. Just when everyone thought Marvel already laid down all its cards, they thought wrong as Eternals has one thing other films doesn't: award-winning director Chloe Zhao, and as Salma Hayek (Ajak) puts it, it's not the typical anything, and Kumail Nanjiani (Kingo) shared how different everything is.

As the featurette closes in, Kevin Feige shares that the Eternals will be "nothing less than redefining" of the whole MCU.

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The Eternals are as follows: Ikaris (Richard Madden) is the Prime Eternal, leader of the team; Thena (Angelina Jolie), squaring off as the other leader of the group; Ajak (Salma Hayek), a Trojan War veteran; Gilgamesh (Don Lee/ Dong-seok Ma), also known as the Forgotten One; and Sersi (Gemma Chan), an enchantress and conjurer.

Other members of the Eternals are Makkari (Lauren Ridloff), the deaf speedster; Sprite (Lia McHugh), an Eternal trapped in the body of an 11-year-old; Kingo Sunen (Kumail Nanjiani), the skilled swordsman; Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry), the blacksmith; and Druig (Barry Keoghan), an ominous Eternal.

Marvel's Eternals premieres on November 5, 2021, exclusively in theaters.

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