Guardians 3 Gives Nathan Fillion Another Role In The MCU (But What Was His First?)
James Bradley
Published Aug 06, 2026
Cast your mind back to "Guardians of the Galaxy," which forces our favorite interplanetary family to work with one another after being sent to prison. Nathan Fillion played a muscle-bound brute who tries to disrupt that dynamic as an inmate of the Kyln, only to be used as an example for anyone else who is feeling brave. It's a brief punchline of a performance in comparison to the one Fillion has this time around, for which he wore a rather heavy costume that he described as resembling "a big basket of bread" during an interview with Disneyland Experience at the film's premiere.
At the same time, he admitted that this doesn't come close to what other stars of the threequel endured. "I'm seeing Karen Gillan, I'm seeing Dave Bautista, I'm seeing Zoe [Saldana]," he recalled, referring to the stars who have been under layers of makeup and prosthetics for numerous chapters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe now. "These guys go into makeup for hours just to now start working, and I don't know where they go in their minds for that time, but I just tried to find a place for myself. I just couldn't complain."