Avengers 2 Scene Description & Info On Quicksilver & Tony Stark

In the latest issue of Empire magazine, they provided extensive coverage of Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron. I’m sure you got a good look at those two awesome covers they released earlier today. If not, click here to see those.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson (“Kick-Ass”) describes Quicksilver’s state of mind when we meet him in The Avengers sequel. “He’s very agitated because everything runs too slowly for him, Aaron said. “He’s quick at everything. He’s quick to lose his temper.” Then there is the dynamic between Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen). “It’s more about Pietro and Wanda together, a yin/yang where he’s very physical and very protective of her and she’s very internal and always mothering him,” Aaron explained. “Pietro doesn’t [frick]ing trust anybody. The only one he cares for and at the end of the day will jump in front of a bullet for is his sister, Wanda.”

X-Men: Days Of Future Past version of Quicksilver’s super-speed was the talk of the town, but it was portrayed in super-slow motion while Aaron’s Quicksilver will be entering and exiting scenes like “a blur.” He adds, “I was really good at skidding and not just in straight lines. I would run in and then do the scene and run out and then they’d have to do it exactly the same again but without any actors.” Aaron did see his Kick-Ass co-star Evan Peters as Quicksilver and thought he was “fantastic,” nor did it bother him that he was playing a role that was already scene on the big screen last year.

Then there is Robert Downey Jr., who discusses his eagerness to be part of Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War as it allows him to share the weight of it. “They said to me, ‘If we have you, we can do this, or Cap 3 has to be something else,” Downey Jr. explained. “It’s nice to feel needed. And at this point it’s about helping each other, too. I look at it as a competition and I go, ‘Wow, maybe if these two franchises teamed up and I can take even a lesser position, with people I like and directors I respect, maybe we can keep things bumping along.”

Downey Jr. then discusses planting the seeds of a rift between Tony Stark and Steve Rogers in Avengers: Age Of Ultron, as the film will setup the conflict in the Captain America sequel. “It’s natural to change your views,” Downey said. “The main thing to me is, what sort of incident could occur, and what sort of framework could we find Tony in? The clues about where we might find him next are in Ultron. But what would it take for Tony to completely turn around everything he’s stood for? Joss brings this up all the time. It’s kind of weird that these guys would have all these throw downs all over planet Earth and yet when the movie’s over, nobody minds. What would the American government do if this were real? Wouldn’t it be interesting to see Tony doing something you wouldn’t imagine?”

Spoiler warning! Avengers 2 scene description below:

As Stark is flying the ship, [Robert] Downey Jr. goes and sits in the pilot’s seat. [Jeremy] Renner lies down on a table in the middle of the jet and clutches his stomach while a fake drip is attached to his arm. It’s clear that, whatever went down at von Strucker’s, it has left the Avengers’ ace archer in considerable distress. As the dialogue plays out, it becomes clear that [Mark Ruffalo’s] Bruce Banner has Hulked out, or what he calls a “code green,” during the assault on Strucker’s fortress, and is deeply troubled by it. [Scarlett Johansson’s] Natasha tries to reassure him – “If you hadn’t been there, there would have been double the casualties.” Banner grimaces, and replies with, “You know, sometimes exactly what I want to hear isn’t exactly what I want to hear.” Seeking back-up, Natasha turns to[Chris Hemsworth’s] Norse god. “Thor, report on the Hulk?” she asks. Hemsworth immediately lights up and lets rip with a rousing tribute to all the violence unleashed by the Hulk, filled with words like “screams” and “victims” and “whimpering”. Seeing that it has the opposite effect to that intended on Banner, the God of Thunder turns God of Blunter, stammering and stumbling, digging himself deeper into a hole.

(via CBM here, here & here)

Avengers: Age Of Ultron arrives in theaters May 1, 2015.