Actress Kathryn Hahn Brought the Sexual Innuendo To ‘WandaVision’
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One of the most unexpected and wonderful things to witness this year was actress Kathryn Hahn’s performance as Agnes/Agatha Harkness in WandaVision.
“I would keep turning to Lizzie and Paul [WandaVision’s producers] during the making of this and be, like, ‘I can’t believe that this is my entrance into the Marvel world,” Hahn told Vanity Fair.
Photo above: Hahn, Snoop Dog, and Elizabeth Olson.
Hahn added that she felt “a sense of freedom” while on the show’s set.
“And I’ll never forget being pitched the show by Matt Shakman, the director, and Jac Schaeffer, the writer, because I was, like, ‘This is so incredible, what you guys are proposing,’ ‘I’m so flabbergasted that this can exist in the MCU.'”
“In terms of whatever rules I thought would be in place and whatever preconceived notions I had of Marvel, that just went out the window,” Hahn revealed. “So of course, I was in an ’80s outfit, making sex jokes — that makes total sense in this world.”
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige recently opened up about their decision to cast Hahn as Agnes, noting that everything happened unexpectedly. “It was a rare general meeting, which we don’t usually have a lot of time to do, but Kathryn came in and sat down with Luis D’Esposito,” Feige recalled. “At exactly that same time, we were sitting in that writer’s room trying to think of who to play Agnes. It probably took five seconds for somebody to say, ‘Wait, what about Kathryn? She was in yesterday.'”
