Avengers: Infinity War doesn't waste any time leaping straight into the action as we catch up with Thor and Loki mere moments after Thanos and his Black Order have laid waste to their ship and killed off half of the Asgardians who fled from Asgard before it was destroyed by Surtur. The Mad Titan then stabs Heimdall in the chest and breaks Loki's neck in what seems like a definitive end for them both.
So, what was the feeling on set like the day these two Marvel Cinematic Universe staples ended up saying goodbye? "A lot of days on this movie were emotional, not just if anything that drastic happened, but just characters that have been around for so long, or for whom the actor is their most identifiable role, or it’s a role that started them on their current giant career path," Feige explains.
"Not just a big dramatic bow, final curtain call, but anything some of the emotional dialogue scenes in this movie people. It would get emotional. For the most part, the film was fun because all these people are fun and all these actors are fun," he continues. "Everybody loves being in the shared sandbox, but there’s emotion when people have been playing these characters for this long and are this closely. They are as emotionally connected to the characters, if not more so, than the audience."
As for what it was like to say goodbye to Tom Hiddleston's Loki, a character who has played a key role in the MCU since 2011's THOR, Feige added: "So you have to imagine it’s emotional as they go through scenes that either represent some sort of a curtain dropping, or just scenes that allow them to reflect on how far they’ve come, so there are a lot of days like that, that were emotional. And for Tom in particular, yeah, there was some. Some days were more emotional than others."
Do you guys think we'll see the God of Mischief or Heimdall return somewhere down the line?