‘Secret Invasion’ Star Kingsley Ben-Adir Reveals the Acting Choice Key to Crafting a Villain Worthy of Nick Fury (Video)

The British actor very much wanted Gravik to be a “satisfying” villain on the Disney+ series

If you’re going to take on Nick Fury, you best be strong and smart enough to do it. For Kingsley Ben-Adir’s Gravik, the insurgent leader at the core of “Secret Invasion,” the key to being able to be those things was to also be entirely void of emotional connections.

Two episodes into Marvel’s new series, now streaming on Disney+, it’s abundantly clear that Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) isn’t the Fury we once knew. He’s been changed by the blip and is clearly no longer “the spy,” as Tony Stark once referred to him. Still, he needs to step up to take on Gravik, a skrull who has become disillusioned by the promises of Fury and Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) and has orchestrated an invasion of massive scale.

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