For most of the series, fans expected Doctor Strange to pop up in some way on WandaVision.
However, it didn’t happen and now Marvel boss Kevin Feige is explaining just why.
In an interview for Rolling Stone, he confirmed that Doctor Strange was indeed supposed to turn up in the finale, and that those “commercial breaks” during the show served as coded messages Wanda was sending to Doctor Strange as he “attempted to break through her sitcom fabrication.”
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In case you missed it, it was revealed in the WandaVision finale that Evan’s character was not actually Pietro Maximoff, aka Quicksilver, but was a Westview resident named Ralph Bohner. Ralph was placed under Agatha’s spell to play Pietro and fool Wanda into thinking her brother returned.
The 34-year-old actor appeared at a virtual talk with Pace University students and revealed his reaction to learning his character’s real name.
Who made Kathryn Hahn a “cool mom”? It was Agatha all along!
The 47-year-old actress, who plays Agatha Harkness in Marvel Studios‘ WandaVision, revealed how the show affected her relationship with her children in an interview on the People Every Day podcast.
During the interview, she said her son Leonard, 14, and daughter Mae, 11, shared with husband Ethan Sandler, were very impressed with their mom’s role.
“No one can really admit to their mom that they’re cool, which I understand and respect, but they definitely were a little bit, I would just say, suspiciously nicer to me these days. So I feel like I’m going to take that as a huge compliment. They’re definitely proud for sure,” she said.
“We got to watch it together, which was something that they have not really been able to do much with mom’s work. But we were able to watch it weekly, which was so fun.”
She also explained that some [ast projects were not suitable for the kids.
“We had to fast forward through Step Brothers because they realized they couldn’t see anything that I did in that movie. So, I was never in the movie; it’s as if Mom was never in the film…one day we’re going to have to go back and watch that again.”
If you’re wondering if we’ll ever see Josh Stamberg return as Director Hayward in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you’re not the only one.
The 51-year-old actor opened up about his work in the Disney+ series WandaVision during an interview with SiriusXM’s EW Live.
Josh was on the radio show to promote his Netflix movie Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, in which he plays one of the parents during reenactments of what happened in the scandal.
While talking about WandaVision, Josh admitted that he doesn’t know if he’ll ever return as Hayward.
“God I wish I knew I still want the answer to that. And it was one of my first questions to them was like, ‘do I die?’ I kept waiting because the last episode wasn’t written and when it finally, I was like, I don’t die. I kept emailing. Right. I’m still. And so when it came to reading led away in cuffs, I was like, yes, maybe I am Mephisto,” Josh said.
When asked if anyone has told him anything, he said, “They don’t, there’s so little shared. I don’t even think that Paul Bettany knows what, how and where he shows up next. I know that, you know, Lizzie Olsen’s in the middle of shooting the next one now. And I think beyond that, they just don’t share it. It’s not, there’s nothing contractual.”
WandaVision fans were a little let down when Benedict Cumberbatch didn’t show up on the Disney+ series during its nine episode run.
Fans had been theorizing that the 44-year-old Doctor Strange star would pop up on the series, after it was confirmed that Elizabeth Olsen would bring the Scarlet Witch to the upcoming Doctor Strange sequel, The Multiverse of Madness.
“I’m sorry to disappoint you. That would have been fun, I guess,” Benedict shared in a recent interview on ReelBlend. “It would have led into Lizzie’s involvement with the movie. That’s all to come.”
However, Benedict did make up for it a bit by spilling some news about the sequel, saying that they’re filming on the project now.
“We’re in the middle of it now – We’ve been filming since before Christmas and it’s very exciting.”
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is expected to bow in 2022.
Fans are getting a behind-the-scenes look at the making of WandaVision!
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Wandavision debuts on Friday (March 12) on Disney+ and tells the story of the hit show, from its early development to the filming process.
The documentary also explores the various influences that appear throughout WandaVision and how the crew set out to emulate early sitcoms, as well as the challenges and rewards of filming in front of a live studio audience.
Evan Peters was a surprise star of the Disney+ series WandaVision and now showrunner Jac Schaeffer is opening up about his casting.
For those that don’t know, Evan previously played Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver in the X-Men movies and he showed up as the character in episode 5 of WandaVision.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Pietro was previously played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Avengers: Age of Ultron, so Evan‘s introduction to the MCU was seemingly the beginning of the multiverse. We later found out his character’s true identity and that theory was thrown out.
Jac told The New York Times that using Evan “was an enormous question mark for a very long time. And it took a while to figure out if it would be possible.”
“It was late that it was finally confirmed that we could do it. But we were writing for it. Evan is such a chameleon in that way, that could play an amalgamation of [Full House‘]s Uncle Jesse, [Family Ties‘] Nick, and Joey from Friends. He could play those layers,” Jac added.
There was a possibility that Marvel execs wouldn’t allow Evan‘s casting because of the confusion it could have caused. Jac said that sometimes you are told, “No, you can’t have that toy,” and that you have to “find a different toy that suits your show better.”
“There wasn’t a Plan B,” Jac said about the casting of Fietro. “There were just very, very intense hopes and dreams, and they were met.”
