Out doing promotional rounds for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” actor Martin Freeman has been teasing his next MCU appearance as CIA agent Everett Ross in the upcoming Disney+ series “Secret Invasion”.
Talking to Digital Spy, Freeman describes the tone of the show as something “pretty dark” and says: “It was a bit murky, actually. A bit murky. Quite labyrinthine in terms of storytelling, and the amount of people crossing over with each other.”
The series is based on the crossover comic event series showcasing a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls having infiltrated Earth for years. Talking about how the series differs from his more traditional work in ‘Wakanda Forever,’ he says:
“It feels pretty different to stuff I’ve seen. It does feel like a little departure. Yeah, it does – in ways that I wouldn’t be that able to describe. Again, I’ve not seen it. I’ve not even read all of it. The bits I’ve read do feel different, I guess: Because of the nature of television, you can luxuriate in things a little bit more. That storytelling process is just elongated. So you have got more time to get those knotty problems out, which is the beauty of television at the moment.”
Freeman’s role is arguably not the most fun role in the MCU, the character serving as something of an exposition dumper at times. Nevertheless, he enjoys the gig:
“I go wherever they tell me to go. You know what I mean? I’m a bit like Ross in that way. I’m just an agent who goes over there or over there.
I just like playing him. I like playing him in whatever kind of situations they want to put him in because he does bits of action and bits of espionage and bits of thinky-talky things, but also bits of running around.
He’s generally, we hope, on the side of good, but it’s always quite ambiguous. It’s ambiguous. And I enjoy that because I think life is ambiguous.”
Freeman can be seen now in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” whilst “Secret Invasion” is set to stream early next year on the Disney+ service.
