Kathryn Hahn was an absolute standout in WandaVision as the cunning and entertaining Agatha Harkness. We’re not the only ones who think she was perfectly cast.
Kevin Feige, the head of Marvel Studios; opened up about meeting with Hahn and how they ended up casting her as Agatha in WandaVision:
“Kathryn Hahn has been a phenomenon long before WandaVision, and we were all fans of hers at Marvel Studios. She had come in for a general meeting, coincidentally right around the time we were trying to cast Agnes-slash-Agatha. It was one of those, ‘Why didn’t we think of this before?’ [Marvel Studios Co-President] Louis D’Esposito actually sat down and had a general [meeting] with her, and it very quickly went from, ‘She’s great! What could she do for us someday? Anyway, who’s gonna play Agatha? We really gotta cast this part. Wait a second!’ (laughs) It was honestly almost exactly like that.”
Feige continued:
“Seeing audiences respond to characters that they were not expecting, or that they were not asking for — I wouldn’t say there was a huge contingency of people banging down the door for Agatha Harkness to appear in the MCU, but she’s a great character portrayed by a great actress. By the first few episodes, people were asking, ‘Where is she gonna show up again? What else is she gonna do?’ “I think the same thing is happening right now with [Wyatt Russell’s] John Walker from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier series, and certainly with Mobius M.
Mobius, as portrayed by Owen Wilson in the Loki series. So that is something that is so important to the MCU, is including new characters. The comic is filled with many lifetimes of spectacular characters, and when you find the best actors to portray them, it can quickly go from an audience never hearing of a character to then upset with us that we haven’t already announced their own standalone movie. That makes us all very happy.”
What’d you think of Hahn as Agatha? Do you want to see her return in a future MCU project?
Source: Heroic Hollywood
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