The following chapter of the MCU will start with a crash course in sitcom historical past. WandaVision, which premieres Friday, Jan. 15 on Disney+, will take a deeper dive into Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Imaginative and prescient’s (Paul Bettany) relationship via the lens of basic sitcoms like I Love Lucy, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and extra.
Since we’re speaking about basic sitcoms, absolutely Olsen’s connection to sitcom royalty must be acknowledged, proper? Olsen is the youthful sister of an identical twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who famously break up time enjoying Michelle Tanner within the seminal 1980s sequence Full House.
“Now we have a really small nod, but it surely’s there,” Olsen confirmed to TV Information, “And I credit score [director[ Matt Shakman for making it occur.”
It’ll take just a few episodes earlier than WandaVision viewers get to see precisely how Olsen’s siblings and Full Home get their shout out, however the Marvel actress will get to showcase her personal comedic chops proper off the bat. The premiere episode of the sequence pays homage to basic ’50s TV and was filmed in entrance of a stay studio viewers earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world the other way up. Olsen defined that whereas sitcom performing was an enormous departure from how she’s performed Wanda up till now, the fast nature of filming did not enable her to get in her head.
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“She’s the last word unhappy woman,” Olsen joked. “She’s extra than simply that — she’s received loads happening, but it surely was actually enjoyable [to movie the sequence] and it was onerous… The whole lot was so quick on this present. We needed to work so rapidly and it felt like we had been by no means going to have the time to complete all the things. And so it was nearly like we had been hurdling via all of it with out having to second guess ourselves. There wasn’t sufficient time to hesitate. We simply needed to do our homework, present up, and swing large. That was simply sort of the vitality.”
Despite the fact that the sequence is a departure from what followers have seen from Marvel and the MCU to date, Olsen teased that there can be loads of Easter eggs for hardcore followers to get pleasure from, however she can also be optimistic that it is a probability for newcomers to hitch the Marvel bandwagon.
“Hopefully we get some new audiences who do not actually know Marvel that properly and I hope they get pleasure from this type of twisted journey of sitcom-Twilight Zone house that we launch into,” she mentioned. “Each episode leaves extra questions. They supply solutions and create extra questions. It is fairly a cliffhanger sort of a present and so I hope it is welcomed.”
WandaVision premieres Friday, Jan. 15 on Disney+.