[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”10427″ img_size=”900×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Ever since the post-credit scene in Ant-Man revealed Hank Pym showing his daughter hope a Wasp suit, we’ve been eager to see Hope kick ass alongside Scott. The thing is, we had to wait until this year to see her in Ant-Man and The Wasp. It’s revealed in the movie that since the events of Civil War that Hope and her father had been on the run, considering the suit Scott committed his “crimes” in was Pym property. So, if Ant-Man was available for Captain America, why wasn’t Hope?
In a recent interview, Evangeline Lily revealed how she was actually happy that her character was not included in Captain America: Civil War, despite Hope telling Scott he should have called her:
“There was actually talk of me being in Captain America: Civil War, and I was a little bit worried about that because she would have been introduced in a story that has nothing to do with Hope or her first taking on the mantle of the Wasp. I would have been nervous and a bit disappointed that the first titled female Super Hero in the Marvel Universe wouldn’t get an origin film. Marvel Studios called me to say, ‘We’re not gonna use you in Civil War any more.’ and I thought, ‘Woo-hoo! That’s great!’ They said, ‘Let us explain, don’t be upset – we really want to give her an origin film. We want to give her a full film and to really make a moment of this.’ And I was way ahead of them already and very eager for that to happen!”
On top of Lily’s joy, Ant-Man director Peyton Reed also commented how he was part of making sure he had his own moment to tell Hope’s origin tale, rather than the Russo brothers including her in Civil War:
“Oh yeah, I went nuts. ‘No, we can’t do that.’ And also, there are so many characters in Civil War and also in Infinity War that it became a thing where, you can’t have Wasp’s coming out party in the movie, because you are only going to be able to devote this much screen time to her and that’s what our movie really wanted to be about. Those kinds of things are conversations that happen and they just sort of organically reveal themselves.”
Did you happen to catch Ant-Man and The Wasp, which is now available on Blu-Ray and DVD?
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