Superheroes Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne return to continue their adventures as Ant-Man and the Wasp. Along with Hope's parents Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne, and Scott's daughter Cassie Lang, the family finds themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought possible.

Entertainment Affair recently joined stars Paul Rudd (Scott Lang/Ant-Man), Evangeline Lilly (Hope Van Dyne/ Wasp), Jonathan Majors (Kang the Conqueror), Kathryn Newton (Cassie Lang), Michelle Pfeiffer (Janet Van Dyne/ Wasp), and Michael Douglas (Dr. Hank Pym), as well as director Peyton Reed and producers Kevin Feige and Stephen Broussard, for a virtual press conference to talk about Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Check out a few highlights of the event below.

Scott Lang has been through a lot since the first film and actor Paul Rudd explains how he is feeling about it now

Rudd says that Scott’s main focus is being a dad, after losing so much of his time with his daughter Cassie. “He always had kind of a love-hate relationship with [being a superhero], but now I feel as if he’s accepted it. He is happy that all of that seems to be in the rearview mirror, and now we get to have kind of a normal life, have some time together. It doesn’t last, obviously, as long as maybe he thought it would.”

Evangeline Lilly shines a light on how her character has evolved

“Hope started the first Ant-Man film a very cold, detached, very isolated woman. She had a lot of broken relationships in her life, and over the course of these three films, I’ve had this incredible arc to be able to play where she has, in that time, repaired her relationship with her father. She’s reunited with her long-lost mother. She’s fallen madly in love with Scott, and she’s become a stepmom to Cassie. And so her life is just full of relationship, and it’s full of love, and she is really like a blossomed version of the woman that we met, and you see that in the work that she’s doing in the world.”

Michelle Pfeiffer’s character Janet van Dyne, is cautious about sharing what happened in her 30 years in the Quantum Realm

“After finally being rescued from the Quantum Realm after 30 years and reunited with her lovely husband Hank and daughter Hope, she is just savoring this time together and quite, decidedly so, secretive about her time down there. Not really wanting to get into that until, of course, we all find ourselves down in the parallel universe and parallel world. And she is forced to come forth with the truth and in a place where she had hoped she would never see again. 30 years is a long time. People have needs. And let’s not be judgmental. And so, I think there are a lot of surprises for the family.”

Jonathan Majors on playing different versions of Kang The Conqueror

Majors asks the question, “Who is Kang?” before answering it himself, “I think the quick answer to that is Kang is a time-traveling supervillain. Who is also a nexus being. Which leads to this idea of variants. There’s multiple versions of Kang. Versions being variants. They occupy different universes, multi-verses, they have different intentions. They are all different beings, and yet something that we’re still and I’m still working on and continue to refine and refine and refine to something as a throughline between them. And that, to me, is the Kang gene.”

Kathryn Newton was asked what the first Marvel movie she saw was

Newton answered, “Iron Man. I was probably like eight. So since then, since the first time, I saw a Marvel movie, I have always wanted to be a Marvel superhero, and anyone who knows me from high school, it was probably like my superlative in the yearbook. I really wanted to be part of this, because it made me dream. I went with my dad to the theaters, and I just wanted to be a superhero. And it’s funny, because I told myself that I always wanted to be the biggest Marvel superhero of all time. And I think it’s ironic that Cassie Lang grows 40 feet. So I’m proof that your dreams come true, ’cause mine did.”

Director Peyton Reed shared what he believes to be the emotional core of the "Ant-Man" films: Family

“The 'Ant-Man' movies have really always been about family. It is a generational story about a family of heroes, and Scott Lang, who is not a billionaire or super scientist, getting sucked into this world, and Hope van Dyne who is the legacy daughter of two superheroes, Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer. So it’s this generational thing, and now young Cassie Lang, who is probably Scott’s biggest motivating factor. He wants to be a hero, obviously. He’s an Avenger, but it’s really about work-life balance and also finding time with his daughter.”

Michael Douglas noted that it has been “a pleasure” to be part of a more family-orientated franchise for a change

“I think the Ant-Man pictures refer to family a lot and it brings a vulnerability to these super-powered characters that we see in a lot of Marvel films. And the sense of humour – it’s really a pleasure. I think it’s the sort of fun element about it, certainly it’s the danger [too]. It seems to relate to all different ages. [For] someone like myself, whose mostly referenced with R-rated movies, this has been a pleasure to have younger kids coming up and enjoying it and seeing what’s going on, so kudos to everyone.”

Kevin Feige on Quantumania kicking off Phase 5

Of all the people in the press conference asking questions, it was Douglas who asked Feige what is Phase 5? Feige explained, “to go through Phase 5 we'll start at Phase 1. We were making a lot of movies, and I always dreamed of making even more movies. And we sort of break it up into these phases. So from Iron Man to the first Avengers was one phase. Then we would do Phase 2 to Avengers Age of Ultron. And through to Endgame. Endgame ended what we call Phase 3 and now we've started a new saga. We've made a lot of films in Phase 4, the last of which was Wakanda Forever. We introduced a lot of characters in that and now in this film, in large part to the man sitting in front of me (referring to Jonathan Majors), kicks off what we call Phase 5, which begins a more specific storyline heading towards some Avengers films down the line.”

Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, only in theaters February 17th.