Marvel Studios has been known to keep secrets. This often means preventing surprises and spoilers from leaking to the public. Sometimes, to ensure this, creative teams will retain information from cast members. In the cases of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, it became a common joke that the cast had so little information about the movies for scenes in which they did not participate. In the case of the phase 4 launch title WandaVision, Marvel Studios seems to have relaxed a bit. It looks like cast members knew the story of the series would begin to end.
Randall Park joined the Marvel movie universe as Jimmy Woo Ant-Man. He was left out of the big two Avengers films but reprized the role with WandaVision‘s fourth episode and will return for more as the season continues. Despite arriving late, Park received the full download of the full arc from WandaVision from the jump.
“The first meeting I had with Jac Schaeffer, the lead writer, was after I obviously found out they were interested in going back to Jimmy Woo,” Park explained in an interview with ComicBook.com. “And he was saying, ‘Yeah,’ right away, you know.” There’s no question. “And then they called me to introduce me to the show, the idea. And I was impressed. They had practically conceptualized this thing from a very early age. The elements of the sitcom, all of that. anomaly in Westview. I mean all of these things were almost there. So for me, it was just that a meeting, sitting in the conference room that basically told the whole story, was really mind-blowing. “
Kat Dennings, who reprized the role of Darcy Lewis for the first time since Thor: The dark world, joined WandaVision in the same episode as Park. “It was interesting because you know there are almost no examples of actors getting to take on a character eight years later, no matter how many years have passed,” Dennings explained. “So it was so rewarding and fun for me. I wasn’t sure what they would do. And after feeling like she’s been in college the whole time becoming a scientist, I mean it was just a dream.”
Dennings had a similar incorporation process for WandaVision where the creatives behind the story of the series exposed it all day long. “I was surprised to receive the episodes. We read them. We did table readings as a regular show,” Dennings explained. “So I had all the scripts and I was just as surprised as you are.”
However, Dennings voluntarily adopted the approach that the Infinity War i End of the game the actors had no choice but to follow. “I’ve separated my stuff just because of the sheer volume of things I have to bring to work in the morning anyway, you know, you can’t leave the script pages in the hotel room. That’s another no- not for Marvel, ”Dennings says. “So you have to take it all to the job to be smart. So yeah, I just did my lines after a while and everything Darcy knew, and then I forgot about the rest. , just because it helps me not to be overloaded here are a lot of secrets talking to you about in the future. “
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