Karen Gillan on How Nebula and Gamora's Relationship Has Changed in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3
The return of Gamora is going to make for a very interesting Dynamic in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, especially because of the fact that she is a very different version of the character. A version that was plucked out of time and has no real connection to anyone on the Guardians team… except for her sister Nebula. But, even that’s not going to be the same.
Over the course of the first two guardians films, Nebula and Zoe Saldana’s Gamora were able to somewhat find an understanding with each other after a wildly epic sibling rivalry. Now, it seems like they are going to have to start from scratch, and that goes for the rest of the team as well.
During a recent interview with Fandango, Karen Gillan talked about how Nebula and Gamora’s relationship has changed explaining that Nebula is the "scapegoated sibling in a toxic family dynamic," she then joked, "Why am I so intense? You hear it back to yourself and it's like, 'Jesus.'" She Continued:
"It's really fun because Nebula started off as this very sadistic, tortured, angry person and gradually she's just become this completely new being that can let in love and accept love and start to give love, too. I think Gamora has definitely been set back a bit and Nebula can definitely recognize that in her because she's seen it in herself so I think it's about trying to nurture Gamora back to where she knows that she can -- this is so confusing with time travel -- where she would be in her future version."
As for Gamora’s relationship with Peter Quill, Chris Pratt, who is also in the interview, shared his own thoughts on Gamora and her relationship with Quill, saying:
"Because so many of the relationships that Gamora experienced and the growth that she had in her life came from the events of Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and Guardians of the Galaxy [Vol.] 2 and this is all stuff that happened after the Gamora that we meet, so the diabolical, insane, psychopath Gamora is a Gamora we're not used to seeing, because she quickly sheds all that for the first two volumes. For example, your wonderful fight sequence and sister dynamic in Volume 2, beautiful, beloved, these two tortured siblings who are given an opportunity to literally process all of this damage and come out the other side of it healed and better for it, well, that's out the window now. So here you are, you've healed but she hasn't, and same with Peter Quill and her, we have all these memories, these wonderful things, we've both grown so much. Well, I have, but she hasn't, so how do you bring someone back from that? And can you?"
That’s the big question, and I’m not fully convinced that Quill will be able to win her heart again. Sometimes stories don’t have the happy endings that we all want.
In Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 our beloved band of misfits are settling into life on Knowhere. But it isn’t long before their lives are upended by the echoes of Rocket’s turbulent past. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him on a dangerous mission to save Rocket’s life—a mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was directed by James Gunn and it also stars Dave Bautista as Drax, Sean Gunn as Kraglin/on-set Rocket, Pom Klementieff as Mantis, Bradley Cooper as Rocket, and Vin Diesel as Groot. New additions to the cast also include Will Poulter as Adam Warlock and Chukwudi Iwuji as the High Evolutionary as well as Daniela Melchior, Nico Santos, and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm's Maria Bakalova as Cosmo the Spacedog.
Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 opens in U.S. theaters on May 5.