The Marvels director Nia DaCosta revealed that she stress texted Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.
that she could do more than play with the dynamics of the three leading ladies, including having control over costume design, locations, and even naming alien planets. With freedom can come more stress, and she admitted that there were times when she would stress textthings like"I'm overwhelmed" and"I'm stressed" when all of it got to be too much.
"Sometimes you'd be in a scene and you'd be like, 'What the hell does any of this shit mean?' Or an actor's looking at some crazy thing happening in space, and they're [actually] looking at a blue X. There were obviously hard days, and days where you're like, 'This just isn't working,'" DaCosta reflects.
Director Nia DaCosta on the set of Marvel Studios' THE MARVELS. Photo by Laura Radford. © 2023 MARVEL., other things were easier because of an aspect of production that DaCosta could control. She explained that things on the set ofwere not always great, with people making inappropriate comments, but things felt better onbecause of who she was directly working with. That major thing was a game-changer: the people she surrounded herself with and the freedom to hire who she wanted.
"I realized it wasn't ever gonna be about how much power I amassed or how many great movies I made, or if I won awards, it was always just going to be the people that I surrounded myself with," she says."The thing that I've been most surprised by lately is how much respect I'm getting from these middle-aged white dudes that I work with.
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