Marvel Studios managed to get at least two months into filming on its event series “Loki” before the coronavirus pandemic shut it down in mid-March. Filming is reportedly now slated to resume in August at Pinewood Atlanta Studios.
Recently actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who has a presently unknown role in the series, spoke about working on the show and her character will be a part of something not seen in the films or shows as yet but will be familiar to comics fans – the Time Variance Authority.
The fictional organization monitors timelines to ensure someone doesn’t go messing about with them, and it’s expected actor Owen Wilson will play the leader of this organisation in the series.
Or the show, Mbatha-Raw promises to Entertainment Tonight:”It goes to other places and you get to see [Loki] mature in a different way. It’s going to be exciting for the fans to really see Tom and that character take the centre of the story.”
She also has nothing but praise for the show’s helmer Kate Herron: “Kate’s obviously earned her stripes to be in that production. More than anything I was excited that it was being directed by one director. To be a part of a limited series [that’s] not just like episodic television, where you have a different director every week, Kate really was going to direct all of the episodes, which I’ve never had that experience on TV. I know it’s obviously been done, but personally I’ve not had the experience of doing several episodes with the same director.”
At present she’s not sure when she’ll get back to work, saying “it’s all still being figured out at the moment”. The series is expected to debut sometime next year on the Disney+ streaming service.
