At that point, people had no idea that the movie would be updating the game board premise of the original flick to a video game, and that leads Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan would all actually be avatars inhabited by teenaged kids.
At the time, we just knew she was running around in skimpy attire while the rest of the dudes wore what seemed to be more stereotypical jungle clothing.
If you aren’t up on the costume, which Gillan can be seen wearing above, to give you some context, we didn’t know anything about her character when the first look at Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was posted.