Anson Mount Was In ‘Disbelief’ When He Saw Black Bolt’s Multiverse Of Madness Scene

“My role came up in the reshoots,” Anson explained. “As you can imagine, several of the actors were quite busy. Patrick was not there. Chiwetel [Ejiofor] was not there. Krasinski’s contract wasn’t even done.” The result is that Anson apparently went through the entire production without ever talking to fellow “Star Trek” star Patrick Stewart, or any other Illuminati member for that matter. As he explained: 

“We had actors playing those roles, knowing that they were going to either be substituting their shots or transplanting faces… I was in disbelief of how well it cut together.”

Admittedly, his scenes are impressive in that the average viewer would never notice that none of the actors are really interacting with each other. By Covid-era Marvel standards, with its frequent use of green screens instead of physical sets, it doesn’t seem so bad. Thanks to good framing, quality CGI, and the sheer scale of Wanda’s brutality, the spliced-together nature of the big fight scene probably won’t register for most.

But once the filming method is pointed out, it’s more noticeable just how lacking the group’s chemistry is. Much of their earlier trial scene is made up of close-ups only showing one member at a time, with none of the usual bickering and talking over each other actors could pull off while working face to face. Most notable is how the Illuminati members make no attempt to team up against Wanda; they go after her one by one, and none of them have quite the right reaction as they watch her murder their longtime allies right in front of them.