Karen Gillan Hints At Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Role

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The beautiful Karen Gillan sounds like she’s getting a little… well, attached to her hair as she eyes up a returning role in Guardians of the Galaxy.

You will, I’m sure, recall that Gillan revealed a completely shaved head at the San Diego Comic Con two years ago, something she did for her part as Nebula in the hit Marvel movie. And of course we want Karen back for a second time as the blue-skinned baddie! But she’s a bit reticent about losing her ginger locks again, as she recently explained:

“I have a physical and emotional attachment to this hair. We’ll have to see if I have to shave it. Maybe CGI will have developed further by the time we shoot it.”

It’s still not been confirmed that Nebula will be back for the sequel, but bearing in mind she did survive the first (I hope that’s not too much of a spoiler for you), this sounds like a substantial hint. “If people know the comic lore, Nebula has a lot of varying different roles to play over the course of a lot of different titles in the comics,” President of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige added. “We have somebody like Karen, and you have a look that is so weird and so great. I think that’s something we’d all like to see again.”

And as a Doctor Who fan, director James Gunn said last year: “I love Nebula. I fell in love with the design of Nebula. I cast the role around that design. I fell in love with Karen as a person, and I love the character of Nebula… She’s the one that you really dig because she’s the cool one that we need to get more of. I hope to God that we get a chance to see a lot more of Nebula in future Guardians films.”

Away from Marvel, Karen is best known as Amy Pond, accompanying Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor across time and space, so how has she taken to the Twelfth Doctor? “I really like Capaldi,” she enthused. “It was hard for me to accept a new man but I was like, ‘He’s really doing it’.”

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 premieres on 28th July 2017 – at least according to Marvel’s current schedule. Which has shifted somewhat since the exciting news that Spider-Man will join the MCU!

Excited? Want to see more of Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy 2? Or do you think she’d make a better Mary Jane Watson…? Let us know below.

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