Into the WandaVisionthe second episode, “Don’t Touch the Dial,” the series begins to show you more about Westview, such as Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and her neighbor Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) is heading to a meeting with other ladies in the neighborhood to help organize a future talent show.
Although Wanda is thrilled with the idea of singing, her hopes of performing a show worsen somewhat when she meets Dottie Jones (Emma Caulfield), a woman introduced as WandaVisionThe idea of a type of queen bee suburban from the middle of the twentieth century, who enjoys torturing her colleagues. Wanda witnesses one during an individual conversation with Dottie WandaVisionis the first major errors in reality which introduces color into the otherwise black and white world, suggesting there may be more to Dottie than it leaves on its sitcom front.
When I recently spoke with Caulfield (whose other credits include Buffy Vampire Slayer and Beverly Hills, 90210) about WandaVision, explained how, although she wasn’t really given so much information to work with on the character, her belief in the storytelling skills of series creator Jac Schaeffer was all she had to convince her to connect. As he got to know Dottie better, however, Caulfield realized that while her character certainly keeps secrets, she’s the kind of personality we’re more than used to dealing with.
Charles Pulliam-Moore, io9: When you first came WandaVision, what enlightened you about Dottie? Because, I imagine, it was just so long that you were followed in the jump.
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Emma Caulfield: Yes, Jac Schaeffer is just a phenomenal writer. I was so blessed to work with her TimerShe and I wanted to work together for years on that film, but I just couldn’t find the right project. More than anything, I was very pleased to say his words again. I always want to do a good job for myself, but I really wanted to do a good job for her with it. And for, you know, our captain, Kevin Feige.
io9: What then is the story of Jac, who made you have faith immediately WandaVision?
Caulfield: It makes me proud to be working right now. I don’t know what that intangible, magical thing she has, but it’s hilarious, so smart and so fast. I’m working on Timer it was one of the most important moments of my professional career. I desperately wanted that movie and there was another actor who usually beat me. In fact, he always did. She was my kryptonite. So when I arrived Timer, I was like “yes!” because I beat my kryptonite and it’s very, very rare to get something you want so much.
io9: Of course.
Caulfield: You know, you get a lot of bad scriptures and you end up doing projects that you don’t want to do because you have a mortgage or you’ve established a certain way of life and you have to keep going. With WandaVision, it seemed like a chance for something I like, and for someone who moved me.
io9: Even though everyone who lives in the “show” has changed from episode to episode, there were common threads in the types of characters they are. We were introduced to Dottie by this queen bee character, but as the series progresses, what kind of archetype does she embody?
Caulfield: I’m trying to find a way to answer that without giving anything away, but keeping this conversation interesting. No matter what the show does in each episode, I always wanted it to have something related or vulnerable about it that isn’t obvious to the audience, but would be clear inside me.
io9: What was that here?
Caulfield: With Dottie, I ask, “Why.” [is she] threatened by this person? Why [is she] so upset? And why [doesn’t she] do you trust them “Dottie is smarter than her general wickedness would let you realize, and her general need to hurt the people around her really keeps her from shining and shadowing everything else.
There’s a brief moment in episode three that says, “Hey, are these earrings making me fat?” Funny line. Place. Jac wrote it. It looks like it’s thrown away, but it’s not at all. No one is around at the moment, and Dottie wonders, “What do I look like? I look good, don’t I? When I was filming that scene with Dottie’s husband, I remember just before we started running, I bent down and whispered, ‘By the way, I’ve never loved you,’ and then someone yells ‘action,’ and my partner scene has this brief moment of confusion. Bthat was just for me. At that moment, Dottie is as trapped in the confines of the Wanda world in Westview as anyone else. She plays a role, but she still needs approval at some level and it upsets them.
io9: Because of the roles you’ve played, you have connections to some of the biggest fandoms in the larger pop cultural landscape. Overview, what kind of bigger changes have you seen in the tone and temperature of the fans?
Caulfield: When I started, there were no presence on social networks at all and you could even do your job without repercussions. The only people you had to worry about were the network and if they were going to keep you. You didn’t get as much interaction or support from the fans, and the feedback was much later. You might pick up a magazine and read it a few weeks later, as opposed to this immediate feedback loop of love, cancellation, and shipping.
io9: Correct.
Caulfield: [laughing] I think I’m very lucky that I did a lot of work without having to make sure I didn’t slip. In a way, it’s like you’re constantly with a lot of Dotties, you know, because there’s always this worry of having to sort things out, because if you don’t, Dotties could fall on me forever like “Get rid of her. “With this built-in Marvel fan base, it’s incredible, but again, I really hope I do a good job, because I really don’t need fans trying to kill me.
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