This post contains details from the finale ofMarvelsSecret Invasion.
MarvelsSecret Invasionwrapped up on Wednesday, though little if anything is actually resolved.
Episode 6, titled Home, begins right where the previous episode left off.
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Hell only stand down if Fury hands over the DNA.
Both end in a standoff.
He thinks itll kill Fury, and it would, except this is actually Giah.
Watching Raavas body shapeshift back into true form is about as convincing as it gets.
Except, this actually does little to talk Ritson off the ledge of starting an all out war.
Instead, it empowers him to declare war on every alien species residing on Earth.
Yep, you heard that right.
DEADLINE: There was a lot going on in this final episode.
What was the most challenging part about tying up this series?
ALI SELIM:I guess a lot does need to be wrapped up.
The most important thing is stopping the Skrull invasion, which involves not only Gravik, but also Rhodey.
And we didnt understand that until Episode 4, that we also had to stop Rhodey.
So thats an interesting addition to the threads.
But I think the biggest challenge was how many threads there were to wrap up.
So I hope we accomplished that.
DEADLINE: When you read the finale, which scene were you most anxious about?
Were there any that felt particularly tricky?
I mean, would you ever see Biden and Putin in a room saying, Im sorry?
I dont think so.
Sam and Kingsley are a couple of incredible actors who really made my job easy.
DEADLINE: Im glad you mentioned that scene with Gravik and Fury/Giah.
Kingsley is particularly impassioned in that scene.
Can you talk more about how you approached it?
SELIM:A lot of prep, mostly.
But ultimately, its its more prep work than shooting.
I think its interesting to try things on set and no two tapes are ever actually exactly the same.
So it was an interesting process with him.
I assume it was mostly visual effects, but was there any use of practical effects?
Its the same with that fight.
We storyboarded that fight for months.
We revised the storyboards.
Stunts helped us revise how it would go, what was possible, what was a constraint.
And we shot it mostly on location, but theres some things that had to be blue screen.
Theres a more elegant way of choreographing it, I think that was just better done in visual effects.
SELIM:The nice thing about Emilia is her performance is all practical.
Theres nothing about her performance that happened in visual effects.
Gravik is the monster obviously.
Performance is very important to me, because thats ultimately what my job is.
Aharon Bourland is great about that.
As a visual effects person, she can do performance, and we had great meetings about that.
I ultimately think thats what makes that fight work is that you feel it rather than just see it.
We see oh, it is all the superpowers scrolling up here.
Paper, scissors rock, which superpower from Gravik is going to dominate Giah momentarily?
Its also just a little bit of choreography and visual elegance or beauty, just making it work.
So we shifted the story to accommodate the choreography.
Are there any MCU characters or stories youd want to explore?
SELIM:Im open to returning to Marvel.
It was a great experience.
I believe its the pinnacle of storytelling in the industry today.
I have a particular fondness for this Sonya/Giah partnership, but am I the right person to do it?
All episodes ofSecret Invasionare now streaming onDisney+.
