One of the biggest surprises in Marvel’s WandaVision was the arrival of Pietro Maximoff in the fifth episode, ‘On a Very Special Episode …’, not played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson like the character in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but by Evan Peters, the actor who brought Quicksilver to life in the X-Men movies. It has since been revealed that this “Pietro” may not be the real deal – last week’s episode revealed that Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) is really Agatha Harkness and pulling the strings all the while – and it turns out it’s part of the reason the series went on with Peters instead of Taylor-Johnson.
Speaking at Disney + ‘s TCA presentation on Wednesday, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige said the decision to bring in Peters instead of Taylor-Johnson was made quite early in the development process and went on to explain that it all has to do with how “certain people” mess with Wanda.
“That’s one of the nice things about developing these things or making it blue in the rooms,” said Feige. The Wrap“My favorite part of the process is always the very beginning when we figure out what something could be and all the way at the very end when we refine it and spread it out to the world. So there were all kinds of discussions, but I think we ended up have continued with what you saw relatively early in the development process. It’s just another way that certain people were messing with Wanda. “
And last week’s “Breaking the Fourth Wall”, the seventh installment of the series, revealed that someone was indeed messing with Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) using “Pietro” for that. In the episode, Agnes revealed she was Agatha and a montage showed viewers what “Agatha had been like all along,” complete with a catchy theme song – a theme song that has spawned many creative fan-covers and remixes. Of course, there are still plenty of theories to suggest that Agatha may not be WandaVision’s ultimate big bad. There are plenty of theories suggesting that Mephisto or Nightmare could still be behind it and even some theories that Quicksilver could actually be Chthon. Fans will just have to wait for the last two episodes to find out.
The first seven episodes of WandaVision streaming now on Disney +.
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