Similar to its early movies, Marvel Studios has once again started using post-credits scenes to introduce new characters. At the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Clea confronted the former Sorcerer Supreme and invited him to join her on a trip into the Dark Dimension to help stop an incursion his actions had seemingly caused.
We expect that story to play out in Doctor Strange 3, and Clea is a character who immediately jumped off the screen.
With Oscar-winner Charlize Theron playing Dormammu's niece, we expect big things from Clea moving forward. However, it was that striking costume we couldn't take our eyes off, and we learned more about how her outfit was created during a recent conversation with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Costume Designer Graham Churchyard.
Explaining how Theron joining the project changed how Clea would look, Graham also talks about the collaborative process of dreaming up a costume like this and reveals some intriguing hidden details and nods to the comic books.
Check out our full interview with Graham about his work on the Doctor Strange sequel below:
Another big debut in this film is Charlize Theron as Clea, and her costume just looks phenomenal. However, when it is so elaborate, was translating that from the comics one of the harder parts of this project?
Sometimes, if you spend too long doing something...basically, before they cast her, we had many other ideas and ideas for casting that were thrown up there because you need the actor ideally cast or in the room, talking to you, before you start making stuff. You need a lot of input from them, as well as the director and the producers, and the studio. In the end, they're the ones that are totally on screen and watching themselves and they have to be happy with all of that.
We went back to the comic. There was an earlier version, where she was a guardian of the Multiverse and a lot more floaty and serene. Just quite a different person. Obviously, when that casting came in, we said, 'Well, she's a warrior from the Dark Dimension and she's related to Dormammu.'
The elements of her costume reflect the Dark Dimension colours, and at the same time, we were literally just going straight back to the comics pretty quickly and redesigned it on short notice when we finally got the casting. Doing the pants with all the circles as you see in the early comics. When you look at the costume, I created some transparent elements to the shoulders so that John Mathieson's wonderful lighting could travel through the armour without it creating silhouette block. I didn't want her to be like one of the guys, I was trying to create something between this extraordinary warrior from a different dimension, but without blocking the light too much.
We just went back to the comics and then a quick series of designs from Ian Joyner and John Staub on Photoshop, and we got to that design. We make it in tandem with visual development at the same time.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is now available on Digital and will be released on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD July 26.
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