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In an interview with Howard Stern, the Mysterio actor noted how interesting it was to work with Marvel on these movies. It’s a massive operation, and he has more appreciation for it now.
“It’s hard, man,” Gyllenhaal said. “That acting is hard….All of it. That world is enormous. And I joined that world way into that run; a train that was already moving. Normally, I come in way early on, and I get to figure it out. It was like you gotta deliver in that space and it was a whole different craft. They’re moving with ideas which is so fun about it, it’s actually really creative….They have a structure for the movie but like if someone has a good idea, if you bring a better idea, they will shift an entire day around that idea. For me, I loved it.”
Far From Home writer Erik Sommers actually talked about approaching Mysterio a little bit differently in the MCU. He and the creative team put tons of thought into how to pull this thing off.
“Mysterio is just an iconic villain, and we discussed various villains, but we kept coming back to Mysterio,” Sommers said of the adaptation challenges. “He really seemed like the next logical choice, but the challenge was how to update the Mysterio from the source material, the comics, into someone that we would see in the MCU. So, it just came down to a lot of conversations with the creative team about how we would update Mysterio, how we would make someone who in the comics is a stuntman, special effects guy with strings on his shoes, into someone that we would see coming up against Spider-Man in an MCU movie.”
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