Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe Page #3

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The fact that Robert was

playing Tony was so...

I thought was so incredible,

and he's always been

one of my favorite actors

and always been somebody

that I wanted to work with.

I committed to the movie

without ever reading anything.

It was just Jon

explaining the character,

explaining how the

relationships were gonna be,

and kind of asking for that

trust, that leap of faith.

I'm glad I ended up

doing it 'cause it was

a great experience, and

it was a great movie.

- Ms. Potts.

- Yes?

May I speak to you for a moment?

I'm... I'm not part

of the press conference,

but it's about to begin right now.

I'm not a reporter.

I'm Agent Phil Coulson

with the Strategic Homeland

Intervention Enforcement

- and Logistics Division.

- That's quite a mouthful.

We had a government

man in Agent Coulson,

and we were like, "oh, he

should be from S.H.I.E.L.D."

- We were having fun with it.

- So I was thrilled when I got a call.

And then, at that point in the script,

the role was just a couple of scenes,

and I was nervous because,

as a veteran of doing movies

where you play in a couple scenes,

if anything's gonna get cut out,

it's not gonna be Gwyneth or Robert.

It's gonna be you.

And yet I just could not resist.

Luckily, that character

seemed to really fill a need.

I think he helped lay the groundwork

for this whole S.H.I.E.L.D. role.

You'll be hearing from us.

- From the Strategic Homeland Int...

- Just call us S.H.I.E.L.D.

As we were in

production on the film,

the idea of a Nick Fury

cameo started coming up.

And it frankly started

with a cold call I got

from Sam Jackson's agent saying,

"Hey, anything for Sam?"

"Actually, you think

he'd want to do a cameo?"

Sam loves comics. He's read

comics I think his whole life.

And he was well aware

that he was the inspiration

for the Nick Fury character

in the Ultimates series.

When I was a kid,

Nick Fury was a white guy

running through the jungle with

a whole bunch of other white guys.

And then he was David

Hasselhoff, and then I picked

up a book one day, and

it's like, "hey, that's me."

I was, you know, all in favor of it.

When we contacted his people, we

were like, "we need him for half a day."

No one was supposed to know.

We didn't even let him walk

from his trailer to the set.

We drove his car onto the stage,

parked it next to the set.

He got out, went right onto the set,

did this thing, got back in the

car, drove back to his trailer.

We were so convinced that no

one's ever gonna find out...

it's gonna be such a secret...

but it was so cool

and such big news that, by Monday,

it was all over the place.

You think you're the

only superhero in the world?

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