We're only a little over a month away from the release of Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron -- the final piece in the Phase 2 puzzle before the next phase begins with Civil War, Spider-Man in the MCU, Black Panther, and more.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver

It's All About the Accent

IGN had the opportunity to visit the set of the Joss Whedon-helmed sequel, along with a small group of other journalists. While there, we talked to Aaron Taylor-Johnson, aka Quicksilver, about playing the beloved speedster, Marvel's unique take on the character and which Avengers star would really win in a foot race...Me and Lizzy have been doing dialect coaching together and trying to get that sound similar to playing twins, brother and sister -- just her being American and me being British. But yeah, it's fun. When I spoke to Joss about it a long time ago and he approached me for the role, [the Eastern European accent] was one of the things I wanted to keep. [One was] to have the white-silver hair, to look like the character, and the other one was [to] embrace the Eastern European roots... So I'm glad that we're doing it, but like I said, they might screen it and go, "What are they saying?" So you never really know. I'd like to think they'll keep it there -- and the Marvel guys totally understand when it comes to their characters. They're a studio that really cares about their characters and have real creative input. But at the end of it, you always want what's best. So we'll see. Hopefully it will continue on that route.

Whedon Talks Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's Origin

Quicksilver 101

Yeah, yeah, some of the original stuff, sort of a mixture of things. Obviously the character sort of jumps in and out of different universes, [also] being in the mutant world and all that, which obviously we don't embrace because of that being with Fox...[Fox has the rights to the X-Men and the term mutant], But yeah, I take bits and pieces that have been done in [the] comic books to kind of get a sense of Pietro as a character... what he's really like, and kind of get to the depths of him... Also that sort of mother-and-father kind of figure. He's very protective of [Wanda] in a kind of physical way and her in a more psychological way. So we try to embrace that... The [comic book series] I liked... was Ultimates, because I think that kind of ties in more with what they've been doing recently with The Avengers. It's more in keeping [with that] tone.

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Pietro's Powers

“ I think they're gonna play around with maybe getting into 'Quicksilver Time,' which would be my point of view.

I run a lot. And yeah, we've done it before. Right now, I think they're gonna play around with maybe getting into "Quicksilver Time," which would be my point of view... Like I said, that's another thing -- it's experimental, really. That's the great thing with these things, with new powers and things like that; you can really play with that sort of stuff. We did a lot of testing with -- the first time we did a running test, I was on what was essentially a running machine, but it was a huge lorry-sized rig, but it was something they sped up -- and it was a great big running machine they had me on, with a harness [in front of a] green screen. They put it on an incline, and I ran on that. But what it did -- it didn't really give a sense that anything was really traveling. So when you played it back, it was just like, everything looked too clean and neat. So it didn't really look real. Then, when we did some stuff on the road and they shot, like, 120 frames per second, they were on a truck and driving on sprint for a hundred meters -- the more kind of crazy ducking and diving -- and when they sped that up, it had a lot more of a really interesting [look] to it. So we experimented with it a little bit.

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Not So Serious?

Yeah, I mean, the thing is, with the Marvel Universe in general, not everything is taken seriously -- in a sense of even when there's points of real drama. But I love that there's a lot of sarcasm and humor to it. People have their little moments of humor, and it's fun. I mean, what we didn't want from me and Lizzy's standpoint was for our accents to be the humorous thing, to be laughing at the fact that we've got these silly accents. [We wanted] to actually make their words and their the feelings in the scenes to have humor. But yeah, it's good. Like I said, it's all kind of fed through Joss, and bouncing off some of the other actors and stuff.

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Pietro and the Other Avengers

With the rest of the team. You know, it's always that thing, that kind of great thing where they have characters going head-to-head and bickering with one another. I don't want to say who, but it's nice to have, like...[Laughs] But yeah, there's a lot of humor in it.It's not an easy answer. I can say that... because I go at such super speed, it's literally an elbow or a shoulder that sends someone flying. It's the force of impact of my powers. And depending on when I'm slowed down, it makes the character very vulnerable at times. But when he's at super speed, no one can really keep track [of him].

Continues on Page 2, as Johnson talks X-Men's Quicksilver, Pietro's Age of Ultron costume and Pietro's MCU origin...