The MCU has become known for a number of things. There are the quips, perpetual teases of what is next, and the general trend of turning lesser-known performers into stars while sticking to a formula. The Guardians of the Galaxy veteran Pom Klementieff has been through all of these and, ahead of her turn in both parts of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, she says the team involved with the action and espionage adventure gave her a lot of freedom to play as an actress.
The Canada-born entertainer makes the comments about her role as Paris in the 2023 and 2024 projects in a new article published by comicbook.com. While only snippets of the interview with the outlet are available at this time, Klementieff says her role was developed around her upon being cast and she even got to choose what her character would wear in certain key scenes in the films.
“What Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise do is they cast the actor and then build the character around the actor’s abilities and all the conversations that we have. So, it was just nothing at first, and it became just all these things that we added and I came up with. You know, different ideas. The makeup that the character wears in Venice, with the white and the teardrop. I thought it would be fun to wear, to draw a mask on my face instead of wearing one, because at some point other characters were supposed to wear a mask. And I thought, ‘you know, she’s a rebel.’ She doesn’t really care. So, I thought she would wear something that is a little bit strange just to make fun of the whole thing. I thought it’d be funny because it’s a little bit sad.”
Klementieff goes on to say she hopes her character will still look like a thug with this choice and later become a monster. In addition — in contrast to some film sets where it is structured like a top-down dictatorship — she adds Cruise and McQuarrie were as open-minded as can be and just about any idea she had was able to be ran by them and not necessarily met with a negative reaction.
“They’re like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s great. And what about this? And what about this?’ So, it was such a collaborative process.”
The first part of what is being billed as the final installment of the series premieres next month. Of course, while the question of whether Klementieff will survive until the credits of the projects remains to be seen and it is also unknown whether she will be back with Marvel once again, her former director, James Gunn is focusing on the future of D.C. Comics adaptations. Comicbook.com did ask Klementieff about this, and she said they are talking about her future there.