Michael Douglas has explained why things got easier after the first Ant-Man movie.
The actor, who plays Hank Pym in the MCU films, spoke exclusively with Digital Spy about the most recent entry in the franchise, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and revealed it was initially tough to get used to the green screen.
“What's unique here is you don't see the material until you're almost arriving for your rehearsals and this is the Marvel System or the Marvel Way. So you're a little at loose ends,” he began.
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“Everything's a little easier after the first one because I'd never done a green screen movie before and now you have a little idea of what's going to happen,” he continued.
“The other nice part about doing a second or third is you know your co-stars, so you have a much more comfortable [time]. It's not like having to introduce yourself for the first time to people.”
Douglas, who also appeared in Avengers: Endgame and What If…?, also revealed that the Marvel world took some getting used to, but has been making a more concerted effort in recent years.
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“On the first one I knew nothing. I was not a comic book addict when I was a kid,” he said. “I didn't know the Marvel world, so they sent me a whole slew of the comics to get some idea.
“I didn't have any idea about [the universe] and even now I still have to ask quietly because I don't want to be an idiot. Now it's getting very complicated because Kang, our ultimate villain in Ant-Man: Quantumania, is going to be in a lot of the different Marvel films,” he concluded.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is in cinemas now.
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