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Jaleel White, a sitcom star from Family issues, is moderating the press conference. White has worked with Shakman in the past. He presents the panel. White begins with Olsen, asking how to work for a live audience.
“It was the first thing we shot. It was so desperate and there was a lot of adrenaline, a lot of rapid changes, and it totally confused my brain,” she said. “I was very grateful when we added the fourth wall!” It took her a minute to figure out how not to perform for the public, but to feed on her energy. “I think it was an amalgamation of Mary Tyler Moore and Elizabeth Montgomery and I think I included a little bit of Lucy in the 70s because there was a good deal of physical comedy.”
What keeps the Vision honest at all times?
“He’s always becoming something else. He’s JARVIS, part Ultron, part Tony Stark. He’s omnipotent,” says Bettany. “He’s so naive … I realized that I’m just going to put a little Dick van Dyke in there, a little bit of Hugh Laurie … I think what Vision is is just decent and honorable and exists for Wanda.” The vision needs “many wigs” to blend in with the community “.
Has Hahn ever had a nosy neighbor as your character?
“We had a neighbor who was very similar to that too, who came without warning,” says Hahn.
He asks Parris about Monica Rambeau as a character.
“Basically, in WandaVision, we started with who she is now as an adult woman. Throughout the show, we find out what she’s been up to, what happened to her in the gap, “said Rambeau.” We’ll see Monica join Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel at Captain Marvel 2! ”
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Shakman detailed how production design, performances, soundtracks, dialect coaches and more contributed to bringing together different times of sitcoms. “It’s crazy, I don’t want to spoil anyone, but we have a long trip,” says Shakman 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, fan favorites,” said Shaeffer. “Their love story has been very tragic, but very warm and intimate. We saw them in these stolen moments at the MCU … what we have with WandaVision… is that we are opening the stage and space for them and they are in this domestic sphere. We can see them washing dishes in the kitchen … all those homemade things that you would never see a superhero participate in. We started from these huge moments in the MCU and then in WandaVision it’s very cute, cute, it’s not.
How did she manage to write the dialect?
“It was like doing an accent or a period piece,” she says. “In the beginning, it was genuinely a research thing … Then, as we moved forward, the sitcoms of the ’80s, it got etched into my real DNA, so it wasn’t a big challenge.”
Will there be more Marvel sitcoms?
“We’ll see. This was our test,” says Feige. “Marvel has been very successful on TV in the past. This was Marvel Studios’ first foray, ”he continues, noting that this is the cast of films. “The idea has always been to do something that could not be done as a resource that plays with the format and the medium. There were a lot of meetings before everyone understood what we were trying to look for … We are able to turn a crazy idea into an even crazier show … It worked perfectly that this is the debut of Disney + for the MCU. “
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How did they become better acquainted with the physical movements of different decades and how did this evolve ??
“There’s a lot more slapstick and physical comedy at the beginning,” said Bettany. “Fortunately, when we reached the 90s, they all 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 a lot in terms of what society wants from them,” says Olsen. “Jac wrote with a few nods about how these things were evolving, throughout the 60s, she can wear some pants that would adjust the way someone moves in space … manners were a big part of every decade. Book that portrayed the good manners of the time. “She notes that this is not a real sitcom, but a world where they are acting like a real sitcom.
There was some hesitation in starting Phase 4 MCU with WandaVision, given how different it is? Are Marvel fans more open to risk?
“I hope you say, ‘Get ready for the new and the different,'” says Feige. “Okay, with the Disney + opportunities it allowed us to creatively expand what we do. [TFATWS] was going to debut first last year, followed by WandaVision. Creatively, it hasn’t changed. “It didn’t require any shuffling in terms of creative … As it usually happens when you play curved balls, the unexpected has often served the MAavel studios well and served us well in this case because this show, being our first One, I love how daring 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 television, which is very different for us. “
They have a plan to shuffle things, but “I’m not saying that 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 the intense moments contrast with the sitcom format.
“It was going into a kind of twilight zone,” said Shakman. “This is how we approach filming and visuals.”
“Twilight Zone is a huge influence for me personally,” said Shaeffer. “It was so skillful on that curve. You think you are in one thing and suddenly everything turned upside down. We were all incredibly passionate about it. There are many current shows now, prestigious series, where you watch a few episodes and think that the show is one thing and then in episodes 4 or 5 it reverses the script. “”
Insight for HYDRA or MCU reference in commercials?
“The commercials were an initial idea for that,” said Feige of how the real world is going to leak into the sitcom of it all. “If this is the first thing from Marvel, MCU that you’re watching, it’s just a weird version of a 50’s or 60’s commercial. If you’ve watched all these films, you might be able to start connecting what all of those things mean from the past. “
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Was there anything they picked up on decades-old comedies that they refused to include?
“When we looked back and we were doing our research … there were programs that were a little bit disappointing and were not acceptable for today,” said Shaeffer. “We had a really incredible writing room, full of people that part of our job was to keep an eye on these things. Like Matt said, we focused on family sitcoms … the family article kept us very focused. I can’t talk about the puzzle bigger head than the show is, but this was also a piece that kept us on the right track. “
How did Kathryn Hahn’s casting come about?
“In my memory, everything happened very quickly,” said Feige. Hahn came to a general meeting, which is rare in Marvel studios. “She was a fan of what we were doing and we are fans of her and at the same time we were sitting in that writing room trying to figure out who should be playing Agness … Usually it’s never that perfect. ..also solidified the character’s voice … who’s the biggest nosy neighbor in the world now? Not in real life, Kathryn, I’m not sure, but on the screen! “
Feige saw something in the production of The Mandalorian that he applied WandaVision?
“WandaVision, we were all on the way long before we saw the Mandalorian “, said Feige” There are many, many The Mandalorain that inspired us at Marvel Studios, and not least the stage art that we were using in some future projects … It was amazing to see the marketing work that Disney did to events that … These projects at Disney + _ Are so important are the projects that go to theaters … They certainly showed that they can do that at Disney + with the Mandalorian. The fun week by week, the discussion, sometimes the series fall all at once on streaming services, Disney + I think it was very smart to leave weekly … “He credits the conversations for helping to create excitement and hopes that this will happen WandaVision. “
How did Olsen maneuver using Wanda’s powers in a sitcom?
“I can’t move my nose,” admits Olsen, “so we had to find something that was a translation,” she says. The effects team became “puppeteers of things floating in the sky and dealing with magnets to make things spin.” There was also “being quiet” and “trying to remember your body” for the next moment when an outfit or something changes.
As Wanda Maximoff would describe WandaVision?
“She would describe WandaVision as a family sitcom for two people trying to fit in and not be discovered because they’re different, “says Olsen.
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How did the MCU events shape the lives of Monica and Agness?
“They definitely went through some things and saw some things,” says Parris. “In fact, we can learn, in particular, what these things Monica saw and went through and how they shaped her life. I don’t want to reveal too much, because we will actually play a lot of it as we go to the show.”
“There’s always that person who knocks on doors and sits on the couch, but in your personal life, you never get to know anything about him,” said Hahn. “In that classic way, I was able to get into that as Agness with all those beautiful tropes behind me to just build.”
Where does phase 4 end? Feige won’t comment.
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