Marvel's Secret Invasion confirms Emilia Clarke's character and other juicy plot details
The Samuel L. Jackson-led Disney Plus series promises a more grounded spy thriller—that just happens to be about an extraterrestrial threat

After Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania hit theaters last month, Marvel Studios is gearing up to explore a very different corner of the comic book universe with Secret Invasion. Vanity Fair has a new look at the upcoming Disney+ series, which sees the return of Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury after he was last seen on a spaceship in Spider-Man: Far From Home. He’s teaming up again with his buddy Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), a shape-shifting alien called a Skrull who was first introduced in the ’90s-set Captain Marvel as his people sought refuge from a war with the Kree.
“[Fury] told the Skrulls they were trying to find them a place to live,” Jackson tells Vanity Fair. “He promised them they were going to find them a planet or somewhere they could be. And that’s not going so well.”
After the Tenor GIF database suggested that Emilia Clarke would be playing S.W.O.R.D. leader Abigail Brand, the Game Of Thrones actor’s character has now been confirmed to be Talos’ daughter G’iah, briefly glimpsed as a child in Captain Marvel. As an adult, she finds herself at odds with her father about how to get along with those pesky humans.
“These people promised a lot of stuff a long time ago, and not a lot has happened. So understandably, a certain amount of resentment has been built,” Clarke describes. “There’s a lot of emotions that live within her, and there’s a lot of confrontational aspects to her character that have come from circumstance. You understand why she has the feelings that she does.”