Elizabeth Olsen finds herself in a brand new sort of fantastical setting with Eternity, and the award-nominated star set a novel document whereas making the A24 movie. The Marvel Cinematic Universe vet leads the fantasy rom-com as Joan, a girl who dies and goes to a realm referred to as The Junction, through which those that die can pick the kind of everlasting afterlife they select.
Initially arriving to search out her not too long ago deceased husband Larry, performed by Emmy nominee Miles Teller, Joan subsequently discovers her lifeless first husband Luke, performed by Neuromancer‘s Callum Turner, has been ready in The Junction for almost 70 years for her. Torn between her first real love, and the person with whom she constructed a life round, Joan should select between the 2 for which afterlife she would finally wish to stay in perpetually.
Additionally starring Oscar winner Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph, John Early and Olga Merediz, Eternity has garnered largely constructive opinions from critics since its world premiere on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant in September 2025. Praising it for its distinctive spin on its style construction, and the performances of its three leads, the film presently holds a 76% approval score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and 91% from audiences after its broad launch.
In honor of the film hitting theaters, ScreenRant‘s Liam Crowley interviewed co-writer/director David Freyne and stars Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner to debate Eternity. In reflecting on the creation of The Junction’s aesthetics, taking a retrofuturistic method to its afterlife junction, Freyne explains that his purpose was “one thing that might illustrate the way you go into reminiscences,” with the world finally feeling “like a pure historical past museum of dioramas“:
David Freyne: I really like the concept The Junction itself was such as you have been on, it was a brutalist construction, however on the backlog of a movie set the place the thought of heaven for them would’ve been scenic bluffs…you go in and see many performs of your life and the background is painted. It is like sparse parts of your reminiscence which are there and nearly idealized variations of the expertise that you simply’re seeing.
Describing the prepare tunnel that takes souls to The Junction as being “a conduit” for folks to “revisit and see your life like a play,” Freyne went on to disclose that he shot the model of the scene with Olsen experiencing the completely different variations of herself “all in sooner or later.” This required his star to undergo what the co-writer/director described as “a document for the quantity of hair and make-up modifications” required for the completely different photos, calling it “a unprecedented” expertise.
Freyne, who went on to credit score the artwork departments and the like for the “extraordinary job” they did in constructing the assorted afterlife settings, additionally shared that “plenty of them have been written into the script” by him. Eager to get “issues that have been actually particular” into the movie, Freyne developed every thing from “the commercials you see” within the film to “the opposite cubicles that we cross by“:
David Freyne: I keep in mind simply doing a spreadsheet of names of eternities and taglines and paragraphs and I might give that to the artwork division, they usually did a unprecedented job with what they created. So yeah, I created all these, which have been actually, actually enjoyable, however then there have been touches that individuals would provide you with that added to them in nice methods as effectively.
One other key level for the movie’s improvement within the writing course of was arising with the principles for the way his afterlife works in Eternity, with Freyne explaining that since “guidelines give constraints” to a storyteller, that helps lead into the drama. For starters, with the movie solely providing new souls a seven-day window to decide on their eternity, “it gave you an immediate ticking clock for Joan to make her choice.”
The opposite key construction to the afterlife in Eternity is that “there is a hierarchy” and a “paperwork to this place,” through which those that select to remain in The Junction “need to get a job,” as Luke does by working as a bartender. Even then, those that select to get such jobs “can get promoted and demoted,” all of which Freyne felt “added to the drama for these characters” together with the humor of the “barely fantastical world” the movie is about in.
David Freyne Weighs In On Eternity Versus A24’s Different Love Triangle Hit, Materialists
ScreenRant: It is a hell of a 12 months for A24 love triangles. Materialists is one in every of my favourite movies of the 12 months. One factor in that movie that we did not get is a one-on-one dialog between Pedro and Chris Evans. You made an enormous effort to verify Luke and Larry, Callum and Miles, have their very own relationship on this movie. How vital was it for these two characters to not solely work together and have that sort of peckish backwards and forwards, however really develop a little bit of a friendship all through?
David Freyne: It was actually vital. I believe it was so vital to me that the connection between Joan and her husbands is not the one one. It is between the boys. It was so vital that you’ve got the competitors with them, however there is a motive she loves each of them. There’s one thing between them that is acquainted, and it is actually vital, notably later within the movie once they’re getting drunk collectively, and also you understand how a lot they’ve in widespread. What they actually have in widespread is that they love this girl. Miles and Callum have been simply so good with one another. They obtained on so effectively, and you’re feeling that chemistry. I believe when you have that, it’s a must to discover it. And I believe these actors actually did. I did plenty of little rewrites, the pre-production and manufacturing, simply responding to how good they’re. That was plenty of enjoyable.
ScreenRant: We put some highlight on Miles and Callum. I wish to give plenty of highlight to Elizabeth.
David Freyne: We are able to do an hour on Elizabeth.
ScreenRant: I really feel like she performs two completely different characters on this movie. How a lot of a luxurious was it to get to have an actress of the caliber of Elizabeth Olsen taking over this half, and the way a lot did she evolve who Joan was by way of her efficiency?
David Freyne: She is staggering on this. I believe it’s such a very nuanced efficiency, and I believe that was completely it. Myself and Lizzie spoke quite a bit about not simply how she would behave being an older girl in a youthful physique once more, and the way that might have an effect on her voice and her posture, however how she is a unique Joan with Luke, she’s with Larry, and the way she reacts to them and the enjoyment she might need with every of them is completely different, and he or she actually developed that over. I imply, such as you stated, her voice modifications subtly, her posture modifications. How she walks or sort of brushes her hair. Every part is completely different with every man and I believe it is only a present. It is a present to have an actor of her caliber and her expertise are available in and craft that with you and, yeah, I can gush all day about Lizzie.
ScreenRant: Did the throwback vibe of WandaVision assist?
David Freyne: I imply, I really like WandaVision. I believe it is good. I am certain it helped a bit bit. Yeah.
The Eternity Solid Have A Few Concepts About What Units The Movie Aside From Different Rom-Coms
ScreenRant: Your profession started with some nice rom-coms. That Awkward Second is one in every of my favourite films. It is one of many explanation why I moved to New York, it makes me romanticize town so effectively. I really feel like you have not executed a rom-com like this since you bought married. How have you ever seen the style evolve from these two completely different intervals of your life, pre-marriage and after?
Miles Teller: I assume for my era, it is even one thing like You’ve got Received Mail. I believe that most likely got here out once I was like 9 or 10. On the sooner facet, I believe a few of the romantic comedies perhaps have leaned into the comedy a bit extra. There’s sort of much more one-liners, perhaps. And what I cherished about this, it felt very character-driven. There’s an actual arc right here. You actually care concerning the development of those characters. It is extremely heartwarming. And for me, I’ve definitely made some comedies the place we’re simply going for the largest laughs attainable. However for this one, it simply actually felt truthful and honest. And I like films that deal with the audiences with sincerity.
ScreenRant: The characters on this movie are so wealthy, particularly Joan. Elizabeth, we get to see two very completely different sides of Joan by way of her relationships with Luke and Larry, one a bit extra pet canine younger love, and the opposite a 65-year marriage filled with little slights, like her pretzels remark. Whether or not it was vocal inflections, and even the best way you checked out Miles or Callum, how did you discover these completely different sides?
Elizabeth Olsen: I believe even with out having misplaced somebody, if we have not seen somebody that was vital to us and a second in our lives, we have not seen them in 10 years, once we see them, we sort of return to the those that we have been, even when we’re attempting to not. So I considered that quite a bit with Luke and Joan. She was clearly youthful, but in addition perhaps not as certain about what she has to say or how she says it, or her personal mannerisms, or making a mistake, or not eager to, and simply being sort of overwhelmed by the butterfly emotions. Whereas with Larry, there’s nearly a deflation.
Miles Teller: You get drained.
Elizabeth Olsen: Yeah, a drained feeling, but it surely’s due to that intimacy that you simply get from that sort of consolation with somebody for thus a few years. And so there’s a distinction, I believe. I believe we’re all barely completely different variations of ourselves relying on who we’re with or who’s round. And so I believe it was a chance to get to point out that.
ScreenRant: Callum, Luke is a extremely good listener. I picked up on this as a result of when Larry references his great-granddaughter, Luke responds and says, “Charlotte.” Names are so onerous to register, particularly when you do not have a face to place to a reputation, however the truth that he remembered a bit element like that I believed spoke quite a bit about who he’s. Might you converse to the worth of being a very good listener?
Callum Turner: What’d you say? [Laughs]. He is been in The Junction for 67 years. He has been ready for a protracted, very long time and I assume he is extremely vulnerable to every thing round him and folks which are coming by way of. Folks don’t remain for a very long time, and he is managed to construct a number of relationships with those that have stayed in The Junction to work. However actually he is been ready for Joan his entire time. And to be a very good listener, I assume, is about communication, separate from Luke.
Miles Teller: Additionally to be a very good bartender. It’s important to be a very good listener. You go there for that generally. They hearken to plenty of tales.
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Eternity is now in theaters.
- Launch Date
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November 26, 2025
- Runtime
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112 minutes
- Director
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David Freyne
- Writers
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David Freyne, Pat Cunnane