Hannah John-Kamen on Playing the Villain in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’

With director Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man and the Wasp opening in theaters this weekend, I recently got to sit down with Hannah John-Kamen to talk about the making of the sequel. During the interview, she talked about playing the villain, how a villain never thinks of themselves as a villain, how her character isn’t trying to take over the world, what people would be surprised to learn about the making of Ant-Man and the Wasp, and what she was nervous to film prior to filming.

As most of you know, Ant-Man and the Wasp finds Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) teaming up with Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) to venture into the Quantum Realm and rescue Hope’s mother Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer). Complications ensue when the antagonist Ghost (Hannah John-Komen) throws a wrench into their plans. Written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, the film also stars Michael Douglas, Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Tip “T.I.” Harris, David Dastmalchian, Abby Ryder-Fortson, Randall Park, and Laurence Fishburne.

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