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Jaleel White, a sitcom star in it Family problems, moderates the press conference. White has worked with Shakman in the past. He presents the panel. White begins with Olsen, asking about working in front of a live audience.
“It was the first thing I shot. It was so nervous and there was a lot of adrenaline, a lot of quick changes and it totally confused my brain,” she said. “I was very grateful when I added the fourth wall!” It took him a minute to understand how not to perform for the audience, but to feed on their energy. “I think it was a merger between Mary Tyler Moore and Elizabeth Montgomery, and I think I threw away some of Lucy in the ’70s because there was a little bit of physical comedy.”
What keeps the vision honest at all times?
“He’s always been something else. He’s JARVIS, he’s part of Ultron, he’s part of Tony Stark. He’s omnipotent,” says Bettany. “It’s so naive … I realized I’m going to throw a little bit of Dick van Dyke in there, a little bit of Hugh Laurie … I think what Vision is is just decent and honorable and it exists for Wanda. ” The vision needs “a lot of wigs” to integrate into the community.
Has Hahn ever had a crazy neighbor like her character?
“I had a neighbor who was very similar, also my father would appear unannounced,” says Hahn.
He asks Parris about Monica Rambeau as a character.
“Basically, in WandaVision, we take who she is now as a mature woman. Throughout the show, we’ll find out what she did, what happened to her in this gap, “Rambeau said.” We’ll see Monica join Carol Danvers, the Marvel captain and Mrs. Marvel in Captain Marvel 2! ”
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Shakman detailed how the design of the production, the shows, the laughter, the coaches of the dialect and much more had in mind the reunion of the different eras of sitcoms. “It’s going pretty crazy, I wouldn’t want to ruin it for anyone, but we’re making a pretty big trip,” Shakman says of the ages to come after three episodes.
White asks writer Shaeffer about Wanda and Vision’s past relationship and how WandaVision promotes this.
“Wanda and Vision are, as a couple, a fan favorite,” Shaeffer said. “Their love story was so tragic, but very warm and intimate. I saw them stolen in the MCU right now … what we have WandaVision… is that we open the stage and the space for them and they are in this inner sphere. We see them making dishes in the kitchen … all these things at home that you would never see a superhero participate in. We go through these huge moments in the MCU and then in WandaVision it’s very cute, cute, until it’s not.
How did he handle the writing of the dialect?
“It was like making an accent or a vintage piece,” she says. “In the beginning, it was really a research thing … Then, as we move forward, the sitcoms of the ’80s, they were burned into my real DNA, so it wasn’t that difficult.”
Will there be more Marvel sitcoms?
“We’ll see. That was our test,” says Feige. “Marvel has had a lot of successful television shows in the past. This was the first foray of Marvel studios,” he continues, noting that this is the distribution of movies. “The idea was always, yes, to do something that couldn’t be done as a feature that plays with the format and plays with the environment. There were a lot of meetings before everyone understood what we were trying to go … We’re in able to turn a crushing idea into a more stingy show … It turned out perfectly that this is Disney + ‘s MCU debut. “
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How did they get to know the physical movements of different decades best and how do they evolve ??
“There’s a lot more slapstick and physical comedy in the beginning,” Bettany said. “Fortunately, by the time we got to the ’90s, everyone made me look so ridiculous that I really didn’t have to work so hard to laugh.”
“The way women move over the decades changes so much when it comes to what society wants from them,” says Olsen. “Jac wrote with a few nods about their evolution, throughout the sixties, she has to wear some pants that fit the way someone moves through space … manners have been a huge part of every decade. book depicting manners at that time. “She notices that this is not a real sitcom, but a world in which she behaves as if it were a real sitcom.
There was some hesitation in starting the Phase 4 MCU with WandaVision, given how different it is? Are Marvel fans more open to risk?
“I hope it says ‘Get ready for something new and different,'” says Feige. “Certainly, with the opportunities Disney + has allowed us to creatively expand what we do. [TFATWS] will debut first last year, followed very soon by WandaVision. Creative, not remodeled. “This did not require any interference in terms of creativity … As is often enough when you are thrown with curves, the unexpected served well MAavel Studios and served us well in this case, because this show, being our first one, I like how bold it is … We have things that you will only be able to see initially in cinemas … this is very much done to be seen week after week on TV, which is very different for us. “
They have a plan to mix things up, but “I’m not saying we were prepared for a global pandemic, we weren’t.”
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How they mastered the tonal changes from a cinematic point of view in how intense moments the sitcom format contrasts.
“He was going to some kind of twilight zone,” Shakman said. “That’s how I approached filming and what it looked like.”
“The Twilight Zone is a huge influence on me, personally,” Shaeffer said. “He was so incredibly clever at that turn. You think you’re in one thing and then all of a sudden he turned his head. We were all incredibly in love with that. There are a lot of current shows right now, series. prestige, where you watch a few episodes and you think the show is a thing, and then, in episodes 4 or 5, you turn the script around. “”
A perspective on the HYDRA or MCU reference in commercials?
“The commercial was an early idea for that,” Feige said of how the real world will flow into everyone’s sitcom. “If this is the first thing Marvel, the MCU you’re looking at, is just a weird version of a ’50s or’ 60s commercial. If you’ve watched all those movies, you might start to connect what all those things mean. from the past.”
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Were there anything they caught in the decades-old sitcoms they refused to include?
“When we looked back and did our research … there were shows that were a little disappointing and not acceptable for today,” Shaeffer said. “We had a really incredible room of writers, full of people, who were part of our job to keep an eye on these things. As Matt said, we were interested in family sitcoms … the family song kept us very focused. I can’t talk about the bigger puzzle about what the show is, but that was also a piece that kept us on track. “
How did the casting of Kathryn Hahn come about?
“In my memory, everything happened very quickly,” Feige said. Hahn came to a general meeting, which is rare at Marvel Studios. “She was a fan of what we were doing and we are her fans, and at the same time we were sitting in the writing room, trying to figure out who Agness should play … It’s usually never so perfect. ..also solidified the character’s voice … who is the biggest crazy neighbor in the world right now? Not in real life, Kathryn, I’m not sure, but on screen! “
Feige saw something in the realization Mandalorianul to which he addressed himself WandaVision?
“WandaVision“We were all going on long before we saw the Mandalorian,” Feige said. “There’s a lot of Mandalorainul that inspired us at Marvel Studios, the least of which is the stage craft they used in some future projects … It was amazing to see the marketing work that Disney did in the event that … These projects on Disney + _ are just as important as the projects that go into cinemas … They have certainly shown that they can do this on Disney + with Mandalorian. Weekly fun, talk, sometimes the series falls on the streaming services at the same time, Disney + I think it was very smart to give up weekly … “He gives conversations because he helped increase the excitement and is looking for WandaVision.”
How did Olsen manipulate Wanda’s powers in a sitcom?
“I can’t move my nose,” Olsen admits. “So we had to find something to translate,” she says. The effects team has become “ting dolls floating in the sky and dealing with magnets to make things spin.” There was also “holding still” and “trying to remember your body” for the next place where an outfit or something changes.
As Wanda Maximoff would describe WandaVision?
“It simply came to our notice then WandaVision as a family sitcom of two people trying to fit in and not be discovered because they are different, ”says Olsen.
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How did MCU events shape the lives of Monica and Agness?
“They certainly went through some things and saw some things,” says Parris. “In fact, we get to learn, in particular, what are the things that Monica saw and went through and how they shaped their lives. I don’t want to give up too much because we will actually achieve a lot of things as we go through the show. “
“There’s always that person going through the doors and sitting on the couch, but their personal lives don’t get to know anything about them,” says Hahn. “In this classic way, I was able to walk into it while Agness understood all those beautiful troops behind me just to build.”
Where does Phase 4 end? Feige will not comment.
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