During the recently concluded Comic-Con International, new trailer for Marvel's Inhumans was released, featuring new footage of the Inhuman city Attilan, characters Karnak, Gorgon and Triton, as well as new scenes between Medusa, Maximus and Black Bolt. In one scene, when Maximus challenges Medusa, her hair, like a crimson serpent, whips towards Maximus. It was the first time the Marvel character's "enhanced" hair had been seen in action, and as we would learn, much like Doctor Strange's Cloak of Levitation, it has a power and attitude all its own.

Speaking with CBR and other press outlets at SDCC, Serinda Swan, Anson Mount and showrunner Scott Buck answered questions on Medusa's hair and the challenges that come with Black Bolt's self-imposed silence. Swan recalled watching her hair come to life in the new trailer with fans at their panel. "It’s amazing," Swan said. "Everybody saw the hair last night at the same time I saw the hair [for the first time], so I was sitting there going -- I know what happened when it first came out -- and now I’m sitting in a room full of people that love her and might attack. I know Marvel, they are incredible. When they do CGI, it blows me away, so I know that it was going to be amazing."

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Swan's character, Medusa, is the leader of the Inhumans alongside her husband, Black Bolt. Her character has been part of Marvel for decades, but this is the first time she has come to the life in live-action. "You know how much people love this character, she’s been around since 1965, she’s diverse, she has so many storylines going on," Swan who also revealed that her hair has its own attitude, said. "I’m a fan trying to engage the fans. So the hair, from day one, even when I put the wig on -- it’s four and a half feet long -- the first thing I did was ‘the Cher.' I was like, ‘Oh, my God -- this is amazing!’ I went outside to do ‘the Pantene’ and became a hair caterpillar because it was so windy. There were some trials and tribulations, but when you get to play a character as iconic as Medusa, you deal with it. You figure it out."

Anson Mount, who plays Black Bolt, added, "You know what I loved about the CG -- what really works the best in CG are the little things -- like when Maximus first touches her, and her hair goes ‘whoosh’ it’s so effective. Then, at the end [of the trailer], her hair whipped over her shoulder by itself. It’s always the little stuff that makes us lean forward. The director that uses CG the best is Guillermo del Toro; he builds as much as he can, then adds the little CG elements, like the fish guy in Hellboy, the [eye]lid flick, it’s just so effective."

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Making Black Bolt's Iconic Silence Louder Than A Bomb

Black Bolt's powers, of course, are very different than Medusa's. While her Inhuman abilities lie in her long red hair, Black Bolt's reside in his voice -- voice is so powerful and destructive that he has taken a vow of silence in order to protect, well, everyone. This self-imposed silence means that Medusa is his sole interpreter. "Black Bolt is an especially intriguing character," said Scott Buck, the series' showrunner. "This is obviously someone who’s in complete control of every aspect his life and he very purposefully chooses to be enigmatic. He doesn’t want let everyone inside; he prefers to remain a bit of a mystery. It was certainly a challenge to write him and develop a series around him. Anson brings so much to that character, you don’t ever feel like you wish he could talk."

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Asked why Mount would take on a role as challenging as Black Bolt, the actor's reply was simple. "I never thought I’d get to face an acting challenge like this again. [Executive Vice President of Marvel Television] Jeph [Loeb] knew exactly how to reel me in. He talked about helping me find linguists. Turns out the linguistic community wasn’t able to help, so I had a signing consultant. It was a lot more straightforward than I anticipated."

For Black Bolt to communicate with Medusa, the actors had to create their own character-specific form of sign language. As the language developed, Mount spent countless hours woking on his hand movements and adapting characteristics from American Sign Language. "Some of the underlying rules of ASL -- the ideas behind the efficiency of language -- it was really about building a lexicon and staying consistent about it. If we go for several seasons, I would love to publish a language book."

Mount said that he worked out his movements in his trailer, and then would send Swan videos of them. Mount said this kept the pair on the same page when they were filming an interpretation scene. "This is why I’ve enjoyed working with him so much," Swan said. "I got to be a part of his process. He could have just come in and said, ‘This is what I’m doing,’ but he takes the time. We’re trying to catch up on the 20 years our characters have been together."

The first two episode of Inhumans will premiere Sept. 1 in IMAX theaters, followed by their broadcast debut Friday, Sept. 29, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC. The drama stars Anson Mount as Black Bolt, Iwan Rheon as Maximus the Mad, Serinda Swan as Queen Medusa, Ken Leung as Karnak, Isabelle Cornish as Crystal, Eme Ikwuakor as Gorgon, Mike Moh as Triton and Sonya Balmores as Auran.