Godzilla Vs. Kong wasn’t just the last movie in the successful franchise known as Legendary PIctures’ MonsterVerse, it was also the most successful as the king of the monsters attempted to protect his crown from the ruler of Skull Island. While the movie was a financial success, it seems that one of the stars recently shared some big news regarding how the movie was changed prior to the release, drastically changing characters and the story before the crossover movie hit theaters and HBO Max last year.
If you need a refresher on Eliza Gonzalez’s character in the clash of the titans, Godzilla Vs. Kong featured the actress as Maia Simmons, a major villain of the picture that was a higher-up in the company known as Apex Cybernetics. Apex in the film was responsible for using one of the skulls of King Ghidorah to create the new mechanical kaiju, Mechagodzilla, who made a surprise appearance toward the end of the film. Luckily for the giant monsters and the world at large, Kong and Godzilla were able to team up to defeat the mechanical doppelganger with Gonzalez’s character being killed by the giant ape in the process.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Gonzalez dropped the surprising tidbit that Godzilla Vs. Kong had apparently not just changed the characters’ roles in the film, but also the story itself in order to “service” the two large kaiju:
“My role completely changed in that movie, for sure. A lot of the story got cut out and the story was completely changed, so it was a bummer because my character had a whole different storyline that went in different routes and Jessica [Henwick] getting cut out of the movie really affected all of the other characters. But it wasn’t anything to do with Jessica’s character. It was just that the storyline changed because the movie is called Godzilla vs. Kong and it obviously has to service them. They’re the big stars. But listen, I’m just grateful that I got to do a really fun movie. So my experience was really good, but that’s just par for the course, sometimes.”
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