Black Panther Wakanda Forever star teases Secret Invasion is unlike anything Marvel has done before

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever star Martin Freeman has teased that Secret Invasion is unlike anything Marvel has done before.

The highly anticipated Disney+ series is set to air in 2023, starring Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Ben Mendelsohn as the Skrull Talos – characters who first met in 2019's Captain Marvel.

Freeman will also reprise his role as CIA agent Everett K Ross following his third outing as the character in Wakanda Forever, and he's said the series will feel "like a little departure" from past MCU productions.

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Martin Freeman as Everett K Ross in Captain America Civil War

Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy about the upcoming project, the actor shared: "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."

As for the tone? Freeman revealed that it's "pretty dark", both "figuratively and literally".

"It was a bit murky, actually. A bit murky," he continued. "Quite labyrinthine in terms of storytelling, and the amount of people crossing over with each other."

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When asked what it was like taking the character of Ross from Black Panther to Secret Invasion, the actor replied: "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 also explained that while Ross has a "very supporting role" and "it's not The Ross Show by any means", the character still has a "nice part" which is "definitely worthwhile".

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has a release date of November 11, 2022. The first movie is streaming on Disney+.

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