We met Emilia Clarke’s Secret Invasion character in Captain Marvel

Secret Invasion is the next Marvel TV series coming to Disney+. This one is all about Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), who deals with a ghost from his past. In Captain Marvel, we saw him make a deal with the shape-shifting Skrull aliens, agreeing to help them find a new home after they were displaced by a galactic war. That was in the 1990s. It’s been decades since then, and some of the Skrulls — particularly separatist leader Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir) are tired of waiting.

Gravik’s followers break from the more peaceable faction of Skrulls headed up by Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), who fought alongside Nick Fury in Captain Marvel. They try and use their shape-shifting powers to infiltrate the highest levels of power on the planet Earth, mounting a “secret invasion” if you will.

“We don’t know who’s a friend, who’s the enemy,” Jackson told Vanity Fair. “There’s a political aspect that kind of fits into where we are right now: Who’s okay? Who’s not? What happens when people get afraid and don’t understand other people? You can’t tell who’s innocent and who’s guilty in this particular instance.”

Emilia Clarke plays a Skrull separatist in Secret Invasion

We’ll meet other characters, some familiar (Cobie Smulders will return as Fury’s right-hand woman Maria Hill) and some brand new, like Olivia Colman’s cold-as-ice MI6 agent.

And then there’s G’iah, a Skrull separatist played by Game of Thrones veteran Emilia Clarke. This is Clarke’s first time appearing in the MCU, but as Jackson revealed, we’ve seen her character before. “Remember when Ben was there with his wife and daughter?” he asked. “She’s the little Skrull girl grown up. She’s his daughter.”

So G’iah is playing the daughter of Talos, who reunited with her father back in Captain Marvel. But there was more to that reunion that we knew, and she’s now working with the extremist group that split off from her dad. “There’s a kind of punk feeling that you get from this girl,” Clarke said. “She’s a refugee kid who’s had Talos for a dad, you know what I mean? Maybe the fact that we didn’t know he had a kid up until this point tells you everything you need to know about their relationship.”

"These people [Earthlings] 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. 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."

Nick Fury will be more “vulnerable” in Secret Invasion

The series will show us a new side of Nick Fury, as well. For instance, he no longer wears his signature eye patch. “He just doesn’t wear the patch. The patch is part of who the strong Nick Fury was,” Jackson said. “It’s part of his vulnerability now. You can look at it and see he’s not this perfectly indestructible person. He doesn’t feel like that guy.”

Usually when Fury gets in a jam like this, he calls upon the Avengers. But not this time. “What he’s not doing is calling in his super friends. So that’s part of the whole dilemma. I mean, people want them and he’s not bringing them.” But why not? “You’ll find that out. There’s a very good reason he’s holding back.”

Secret Invasion premieres on Disney+ on June 21.

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