Karen Gillanwears a considerable amount of makeup for her role as Nebula in theGuardians of the Galaxymovies — and sometimes, that makeup interferes with real life activities.
On Wednesday, Gillan, 35, shared an amusing image of herself in full makeup while on a Zoom call for a couple’s therapy session with her husband Nick Kocher onInstagram.
The actress wrote on the social media platform that the session was coincidentally scheduled on a day she was also filming scenes for the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise’s latest entry,Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
“In honour of Guardians of the Galaxy in theaters Friday, here’s a screenshot of the time I forgot I had scheduled a COUPLES THERAPY session on a day we were shooting,” Gillan wrote alongside the image, which shows her neck and head covered in various shades of blue makeup — and a bemused emoji covering her therapist’s face for anonymity.
Zoe Saldaña, who plays Nebula’s adopted sister Gamora in the MCU, wrote: “😂😂 this needs to be in a movie,” in another comment on Gillan’s post.
Gillan explained toEntertainment Tonighton Wednesday that she was running late to the therapy session in question, necessitating her appearance in her Nebula makeup.
“I don’t know if they were fully prepared for what they got when I logged on,” she told the outlet. “I was late to the session, and I had warned them, ‘Oh, I’m late because I’m at work,’ so they had an inkling, but I don’t think they realized I was going to be in full makeup.”
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“The therapist couldn’t stop laughing, actually,” she told the outlet, laughing about the moment. “I felt bad for her.”
Gillan, who starred in the British television seriesDoctor Whobefore joining the hit Marvel franchise, previously revealed in a FebruaryInstagrampost that she and Kocherhad gotten marriedin her native Scotland during May 2022.
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The thirdGuardians of the Galaxymovie expects to be thefinal appearance for the film’s main cast, which includesDave Bautista,Vin DieselandBradley Cooper, in addition to Pratt, 43, and Saldaña, 44.
An official synopsis for the movie reads that the third film in the trilogy reads that the film finds Star-Lord (Pratt) “still reeling from the loss of Gamora” (which happened in 2018’sAvengers: Infinity War), but he “must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. 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. 3blasts into theaters Friday.
source: people.com
