22 Outstanding Scenes In Marvel Movies That Were Improvised By The Cast
An actor's job is more than just reciting words from a script. The truly talented can embellish a scene through improvisation, creating a funnier, deeper, or more authentic moment for their character. In the history of cinema, there have been many instances of iconic improv moments turned into a most valuable point of a movie, and MCU is visually flooded with those.
The MCU is blessed with some of the best improvisors in Hollywood, from longtime legends like Robert Downey Jr. to newcomers like Florence Pugh. Some of them appear to be so smooth that you would think the whole line comes from written scripts. Here are 22 iconic MCU scenes that were improvised.
He continued, "So for this bedroom scene, I'm thinking, he's a failure as a father what can he do at the end of this scene? This narcissist who also has a big heart. And so he brings up the song, basically as him saying, 'I tried.'"
The MCU is blessed with some of the best improvisors in Hollywood, from longtime legends like Robert Downey Jr. to newcomers like Florence Pugh. Some of them appear to be so smooth that you would think the whole line comes from written scripts. Here are 22 iconic MCU scenes that were improvised.
#1 In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Zendaya improvised the scene where MJ tosses bread at Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield).
#2 The concept for all three Peter Parker versions to reproduce the classic Spider-Man pointing meme came from Andrew Garfield.
#3 I love you guys, Andrew said spontaneously to the other two Peters.
#4 Benedict Wong and Benedict Cumberbatch completely created the sequence in Doctor Strange where Strange compares Wong's mononym to Beyoncé.
#5 Hailee Steinfeld and Florence Pugh improvised the majority of the scene in Hawkeye in which Kate Bishop and Yelena Belova converse over dinner.
#6 After realizing that Hailee despises spicy sauce, Florence came up with the plan for Yelena to pour it all over their mac & cheese.
#7 Florence was surprised to realize that none of the superhero's classic landing stances, including Natasha Romanoff's, are truly safe for landing during stunt rehearsals for Black Widow. Eric Pearson wanted to include it in the script after overhearing her tell Scarlett Johansson about it.
#8 All of Alexei and Melina's flirtation in the film was improvised by David Harbour and Rachel Weisz.
#9 David also came up with the concept for Yelena's comfort music to be "American Pie."
He continued, "So for this bedroom scene, I'm thinking, he's a failure as a father what can he do at the end of this scene? This narcissist who also has a big heart. And so he brings up the song, basically as him saying, 'I tried.'"
#10 Despite the fact that the growing relationship between Makkari and Druig was not in the original Eternals screenplay, director Chloé Zhao urged Lauren Ridloff and Barry Keoghan to include it after witnessing the "sparks" that flew between them the first time they improvised together.
#11 M'Baku leading the Jabari men in grunting at Everett Ross for speaking out of turn was solely Winston Duke's concept in Black Panther.
#12 Robert Downey Jr. improvised the line "I am Iron Man" at the conclusion of Iron Man, revealing Tony Stark's secret identity and going against 40 years of comic history.
#13 Adults are talking, Robert improvised in the Avengers: Infinity War sequence where Spider-Man insists on being "backup" to Iron Man and Doctor Strange.
#14 Tom Holland based the words "I don't want to go" at the moment where Peter Parker is turning to dust on a method he employs to weep on cue.
#15 While filming Vision's Infinity War death scene, Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany were told to improvise.
#16 Who is Gamora? was the last line in the original screenplay. Drax's iconic phrase, "I'll do you one better: Why is Gamora?" was improvised by Dave Bautista.
#17 Doctor Strange raises his finger to imply to Tony Stark that he is the only one who can undo the Snap, which was improvised by Benedict Cumberbatch.
#18 Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan improvised the majority of Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes' collaborative treatment sequence in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
#19 Chris Hemsworth was joking about on the set of Thor: The Dark World when he hanged Mjölnir on the coat rack.
#20 The camera crew "watched Jonathan Majors start to move, and Autumn Durald, the cinematographer was like, 'Okay...' And then you saw the cameras start to move; it was almost like a dance with him" in Loki.
#21 Tom Hiddleston improvised the allusion to Thor during Loki's drinking sequence on the train.
#22 When Tom Hiddleston ran out of choreography for the bridge battle sequence in Thor: Ragnarok, he "simply flipped the knives, and caught them by luck" — and Loki's knife flip was created.
Share this article
Advertisement