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Jaleel White, herself a sitcom star Family matters, moderates the press conference. White has worked with Shakman in the past. He presents the panel. White starts with Olsen and asks about working in front of a live audience.
“It was the first thing we shot. It was so nerve-racking and there was a lot of adrenaline, a lot of rapid changes, and it totally messed up my brain,” she said. “I was very grateful when we added the fourth wall!” It took her a minute to understand how not to perform in front of the audience, but feed on their energy. “I think it was an amalgamation of Mary Tyler Moore and Elizabeth Montgomery and I think I threw in some Lucy in the 70s because there was a good deal of physical comedy.”
What keeps Vision fair at all times?
‘He is always becoming something different. He’s JARVIS, he’s part Ultron, he’s part Tony Stark. He’s all-powerful, ”says Bettany sys. “He’s so naive … I realized I’d just throw in a little bit of Dick van Dyke, a little bit of Hugh Laurie … I think what Vision is is just decent and honorable and exists for Wanda.” Vision needs “a lot of wigs” to blend in with the community. “
Has Hahn ever had a nosy neighbor like her character?
“We did have a neighbor who was very similar to this one, and tat would drop by unannounced,” says Hahn.
He asks Parris about Monica Rambeau as a character.
In short, in WandaVision, we continue with who she is now as a grown woman. Over the course of the show, we’ll find out what she’s been up to, what happened to her in the canyon, ”said Rambeau. We’ll see how Monica gets along with Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel. Captain Marvel 2! ”
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Shakman explained how the production design, the performances, the laugh tracks, the dialect coaches, and more were all brought together in bringing different eras of sitcoms together. “It’s going to be pretty crazy, I don’t want to spoil it for anyone, but we’re on quite a journey,” said Shakman of the ages to come after three episodes.
White asks writer Shaeffer about Wanda and Vision’s past relationship and how WandaVision promotes that.
“Wanda and Vision, as a couple, are a fan favorite,” said Shaeffer. “Their love story was so tragic but very warm and intimate. We saw them in these stolen moments in the MCU … what we have with WandaVision… is that we open the stage and space to them and they find themselves in this homely atmosphere. We see them doing the dishes in the kitchen … all these homely things you would never see a superhero participate in. We move from these huge moments in the MCU to WandaVision it’s very cute, cute, until it isn’t.
How did she maneuver in writing the dialect?
“It was like doing an accent or a period piece,” she says. “In the early years it was really a research case … And as we go on, the sitcoms of the 80s, that’s just burned into my own DNA, so it wasn’t that much of a challenge.”
More Marvel sitcoms coming?
“We’ll see. This was our test run,” says Feige. “Marvel has had a lot of good, successful TV in the past. This was Marvel Studios’ first foray,” he continues, noting that this is the cast from movies. “The idea was always, yes, to do something that couldn’t be done as a function that plays with the format and plays with the medium. There were a lot of encounters before everyone understood what we were trying to go for … We are capable of to turn a crazy idea into a crazier show … It worked perfectly that this is the debut of Disney + for the MCU. “
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How did they best get to know physical movements from different decades and how does it evolve?
“There’s a lot more slapstick and physical comedy in the beginning,” said Bettany. “Luckily, by the time we’re in the 1990s, they’ve all made me look so ridiculous that I really didn’t have to work that hard to laugh.”
“The way women move through the decades changes so much when it comes to what society wants from them,” says Olsen. Jac wrote in quite a few nods about how those evolved, throughout the 1960s she was allowed to wear pants that would suit how someone moves through space … manners were a big part of every decade. manners. ”She notes that this isn’t a real sitcom, but a world where they act like it’s a real sitcom.
There was some hesitation in starting MCU Phase 4 with WandaVision, given how different it is? Are Marvel fans more open to risk?
“I hope it says, ‘Get ready for the new and the different,’” says Feige. “Certainly, with the Disney + capabilities, it has allowed us to creatively expand what we do. [TFATWS] was the first to make its debut last year, followed very quickly by WandaVision. Creatively it has not been rearranged. “This required no shaking at all in terms of creative … As is often the case when you get curveballs, the unexpected has often served MAavel Studios well and it served us well in this case because this show, our first first, I love how daring it is … we have things that you can initially only see in the cinema … this is very much made to be seen on television week after week which is very different for us. “
They have a plan to shake things up, but “I’m not saying we were prepared for a global pandemic, we weren’t.”
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How did they master the tonal shifts from a cinematic standpoint in how intense moments contrast with the sitcom format.
“It entered a kind of twilight zone,” said Shakman. “That’s how we approached photographing it and its appearance.”
“Twilight Zone has a huge impact on me personally,” said Shaeffer. “It was so incredibly agile at that turn. You think you’re in one thing and then it suddenly turns around. We were all incredibly charmed by that. There are a lot of current shows, prestige series, where you watch a few episodes now. and you think the show is one thing and then in episode 4 or 5 the script is flipped. “
Insight into HYDRA or MCU reference in commercials?
“Advertising was an early idea for that,” Feige said of how the real world in the sitcom will leak from all of this. “If this is the very first Marvel MCU thing you watch, it’s just a weird version of a 50s commercial or a 60s commercial. If you’ve watched all those movies, maybe you can start to connect what all those things mean of the past. “
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Was there anything they caught in the decades-old sitcoms that they refused to include?
“When we looked back and we did our research … there were shows that were a little disappointing and not acceptable for today,” said Shaeffer. “We had a really incredible writer’s room full of people who were part of our job to keep an eye on these things. Like Matt said, we went looking for family sitcoms … the family piece kept us very centered. with the bigger puzzle of what the show is, but that was also one piece that kept us on the right track. “
How did Kathryn Hahn’s casting come about?
“It all happened very quickly in my memory,” said Feige. Hahn stopped by for a general meeting, which is rare at Marvel Studios. “She was a fan of what we were up to and we are fans of her and at the very same time we sat in that writing room trying to figure out who should play Agness … It’s usually never that perfect in this … it also amplified the voice of the character … who is the world’s greatest nosy neighbor right now? Not in real life, Kathryn, I’m not sure, but on screen! “
Feige saw something in the making The Mandalorian to which he applied WandaVision?
“WandaVision, we were all on the road long before we saw The Mandalorian, “said Feige.” There’s a lot The Mandalorain that has inspired us at Marvel Studios, not the least of which is the stage craft used for a number of upcoming projects … It was great to see what marketing task Disney was doing at the event that … These projects are on Disney + _ just as importantly the projects hitting theaters … They certainly showed that they can do that on Disney + with Mandalorian. The fun week to week, the discussion, sometimes shows all fall on the streaming services at once, Disney + I think was very smart to drop weekly … ”He credits the conversations for helping to build excitement and looks forward to what happens with WandaVision. “
How did Olsen maneuver Wanda’s powers in a sitcom?
“I can’t wiggle my nose,” admits Olsen, “so we had to find something that was a translation,” she says. The effects team became “puppeteers of tings floating in the air and using magnets to make things spin.” There was also “standing still” and “trying to remember your body” for the next time an outfit or something changes.
How would Wanda Maximoff describe it WandaVision?
She would describe it WandaVision like 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 the events in the MCU shape the lives of Monica and Agness?
“They’ve certainly been through some things and seen some things,” said Parris. “We mainly learn what those things are that Monica has seen and gone through and how they have shaped her life. I don’t want to give too much away because we will touch a lot of that as we go through the show.”
“There is always someone who bursts through the doors and sits on the couch, but you never get to know anything about them in their personal life,” says Hahn. “In that classic way I could walk into it as Agness with all those beautiful tropics behind me to just build up.”
Where does phase 4 end? Feige declines to comment.
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