By Brian Davids Writer Making his American debut, Don Lee packs quite a punch in Chloé Zhao’s Eternals. The South Korean American actor, who’s also known as Ma Dong-seok, plays Gilgamesh ...

Hopefully, the MCU’s Eternals lean into this aspect of the character and bring this Mesoamerican myth to life. Gilgamesh, played by Ma Dong-seok, is based on Gilgamesh from Sumerian mythology.

explaining the Eternals’ mission to come to Earth to protect humans from the threat of creatures named Deviants. The trailer offers a first look at the abilities of Don Lee’s Gilgamesh ...

So she’ll probably be back. One of the strongest Eternals out there is Gilgamesh (Don Lee), making his death all the more surprising. He kept Thena (Angelina Jolie) in check for some 500 years ...

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You might have noticed that many of the Eternals' names — Gilgamesh, Thena, Ikaris, and also Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) — resemble names from ancient myths. That's fully intentional ...

Here’s how it works. Now at this point, a lot of you reading are surely going, “But wait, Gilgamesh died in Eternals!” Yes, he did. Around the movie’s halfway point, Gilgamesh was killed ...

and Don Lee as Gilgamesh, in Marvel Studios' film, "Eternals." Marvel Studios Zhao, whose “Nomadland” made her only the second woman and first woman of color to win a directing Oscar ...

His big Hollywood break came with Disney/Marvel’s Eternals, in which he played Gilgamesh. Sometimes referred to as “the Korean Dwayne Johnson,” Lee also is developing a remake of crime ...

Eternals was one of the least successful films ... it also starred South Korean–American actor Don Lee as the powerful Gilgamesh whilst Pakistani-born Kumail Nanjiani plays Kingo, an Eternal ...