'Props to the both of them because it's a very short window of time, like 25 minutes, and then once we put it together we showed them the scene, and right away they thought it was really beautiful, and there was no discussion after that.' 'Obviously we wanted to do it in a way that really communicated love, so we did it in the most beautiful time of the day,' Zhaos said. Zhao then explained how the scene was constructed. The actors, Gemma and Richard, asked 'Oh, we can do this for an MCU film?' And I said, 'Yeah, I think so.''

'We wanted to show them physically loving each other. 'It was written into the script because it's a very mature love story,' Zhao said. Speaking with IGN, director Chloé Zhao talked about how that romance took shape in Eternals, and how she approached the sex scene between the two. Naturally, their 21st century reunion dredges up old emotions between them, which quickly becomes one of the focal points for the group's emotional conflicts.

In The Eternals, heroes Ikaris and Sersi fall in love in Ancient Babylon, where they consummate their relationship.

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