Take your pick of any flagship phone — iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, Google Pixel, hell, even OnePlus or Xiaomi — and it will have a great camera. Not just one great camera, but a system of lenses (on the back and front) capable of taking excellent ultra-wide shots, portrait-style photos of people and pets, macro close-ups, zoomed-in pics, incredible night images, and steady and stabilized high-resolution videos.

But that wasn’t always the case. Smartphone photography and videography in the early days of the iPhone and, especially Android phones, were pretty rough. Phone cameras took low-res photos, couldn’t shoot in the dark, and it was still better to carry a point-and-shoot or DSLR for videos that didn’t look like potato quality.

But that would start to change on April 16, 2014 when Google made the Google Camera app available on the Play Store and inadvertently showed Android phone makers how to make a great camera for their touchscreen slabs.

Ten years after its release, we ventured deep into Google’s Pixel design lab to uncover how the company pushed smartphone photography past its limits — and how it hopes to do it all over again.

Eiza González was not drawn to The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare due to the size of her role. “If you saw the script, the character was this small,” the actress tells Inverse, pinching her fingers together. In the film, González plays Marjorie Stewart, an actress, singer, and model who also dabbled in espionage during World War II. In real life, Stewart lived on the margins of history, playing pivotal roles in operations that remain classified to this day. The version of Stewart that González plays in Ministry could have easily followed suit — but Guy Ritchie had other plans.

From the outset, Ministry presents itself as a fairly subversive historical remix. This is a film about the hidden heroes of WWII, and though beefcakes like Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson are the face of the operation, the real engines of Ministry are González (3 Body Problem) and Babs Olusanmokun (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds).

Inverse spoke to of the actor’s behind The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare smaller roles to reveal how they worked with Guy Ritchie to push his WWII movie into bold new territory.