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Madame Web Director S.J. Clarkson Spotlight Interview | Phase Zero

Madame Web director S.J. Clarkson dissects her Spider-Man spinoff in Phase Zero’s latest Spotlight episode.
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Following the release of Madame Web, the Phase Zero podcast published its latest Spotlight episode with the film’s director S.J. Clarkson. Clarkson, who previously helmed episodes of Marvel’s Jessica Jones and The Defenders series, opened up about working on the Spider-Man spinoff film in Sony’s Marvel franchise. With the film available to watch in theaters, spoilers became fair game. The Phase Zero crew talked about the film’s costumes, plot, ending, deleted scenes, and more with the director. 

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“It’s obviously a big, massive movie, so that’s kind of different,” Clarkson said, comparing the Madame Web movie to television work on previous Marvel shows. “But I must say that I’m so grateful that I got to dip my toe into the Marvel universe with [Jessica Jones] because I had a little bit of a foundation there. I had a little bit of familiarity with it. I was able to play around with this other sassy woman who’s a little bit abrasive, so I was able to bring a little bit of that to it. But obviously for me, when I first got the script, I found it. So the potential of someone using their mind as a superpower intriguing and something that I hadn’t seen before. So that’s really what drew me to it.”

Phase Zero‘s Spotlight episode with S.J. Clarkson surrounding Madame Web can be watched in its entirety in the video above. Madame Web is now playing in theaters. Links to Phase Zero can be found below:

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Launching on January 15, 2021, Phase Zero made its goal of building a fun and welcoming community of Marvel fans clear. In the time since, more than 3,000,000 listens across platforms and countless comments from listeners and viewers, the community has become one which celebrates the Marvel fandom and regularly engages in conversation about past and future titles. Having connected fans with some of their favorite actors, provided expert knowledge on upcoming titles, and analysis with comparisons to comics, Phase Zero is the one-stop podcast for all things Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

The newly launched Spotlight episodes have featured guests looking back at new and exciting Marvel projects, with the likes of Tom Hiddleston, Iman Vellani, Hayley Atwell, Zawe Ashton joining the show. For more What If..? chatter, be sure to listen to the Spotlight episode with the creators of the series

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