Were talking a lot about this tone and the comedy, how does it then reconnect to what the plot of the movie is about?
I have no idea. Honestly, I gave it a little bit of thought, but sometimes, often I was like, You know what? Im gonna let Marvel deal with that. Thats their department. I know how to tell a story, but Im having so much fun subverting all of this, and like telling weird jokes and making this the weirdest Marvel movie ever. If youve seen my movies, you dont hire me for any reason other than what Ive done.
So Marvels job really is to look after their characters, look after their source material, and make sure I dont completely break it, or it doesnt negatively affect the rest of the movies or how they all interweave. I dont understand that, and Ive never watched all those movies with the eye of like, Oh, how does this link up? Oh, what year was this when, like, Fury encountered this thing? Thats why it was a good partnership. If Id written it and been really hung up on my words and the intricacies of the story and the Marvel lore, I probably would have had a worse time and probably would have been controlled a lot more. But as it stood, I focused on things that I think Im good at, and Marvel gave me so much freedom to run with that and play in that sandbox, knowing that they could just keep me in my lane. The notes that we would get on set would be like, Kevin doesnt like that table.