1 00:00:12,471 --> 00:00:16,011 Welcome to what is a strange event. 2 00:00:16,016 --> 00:00:20,224 The first live sitcom taping in Marvel Studios history. 3 00:00:24,358 --> 00:00:27,397 I didn't know that I was gonna be able to do anything like this, 4 00:00:27,402 --> 00:00:29,566 so it just feels like an incredible gift. 5 00:00:29,571 --> 00:00:32,110 Moving through to the '60s and the '70s now, 6 00:00:32,115 --> 00:00:35,447 and, as we dove into the '80s and '90s, is really fun. 7 00:00:35,452 --> 00:00:37,994 And then, ending up in a big Marvel, 8 00:00:37,998 --> 00:00:41,119 full widescreen format is the best. 9 00:00:41,124 --> 00:00:42,732 We were first really terrified, 10 00:00:42,736 --> 00:00:44,836 and now I think we're just so excited. 11 00:00:46,290 --> 00:00:50,290 - Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com - 12 00:01:02,938 --> 00:01:05,397 The first time I heard about the concept, 13 00:01:05,401 --> 00:01:06,762 I thought it was brilliant. 14 00:01:06,767 --> 00:01:10,816 We're putting together so many different genres of television, 15 00:01:10,821 --> 00:01:13,382 and we are putting our own spin on it. 16 00:01:13,866 --> 00:01:16,910 That is something special, baby. 17 00:01:17,494 --> 00:01:19,066 I just think it's gonna be 18 00:01:19,071 --> 00:01:23,328 so shocking, and confusing, and exciting 19 00:01:23,333 --> 00:01:26,832 for our fans to dissect what we're doing and why, 20 00:01:26,837 --> 00:01:29,251 and for them to try and get steps ahead of us. 21 00:01:29,256 --> 00:01:34,173 And that's just very cool and it's very satisfying. 22 00:01:34,178 --> 00:01:36,800 This is for us. 23 00:01:36,805 --> 00:01:39,261 So let me handle it. 24 00:01:39,266 --> 00:01:41,180 What is outside of Westview? 25 00:01:41,185 --> 00:01:45,342 I got a call from Kevin to come see him in his office. 26 00:01:45,347 --> 00:01:46,769 When I went, "Oh, I'm getting canned". 27 00:01:46,773 --> 00:01:48,690 And I went in, and, much to my surprise, 28 00:01:48,694 --> 00:01:51,190 they pitched this bonkers idea for a show. 29 00:01:51,195 --> 00:01:54,860 And I was immediately in, of course. 30 00:01:54,865 --> 00:01:58,810 And the show has only grown more bonkers. 31 00:02:01,788 --> 00:02:03,040 You're the new clown? 32 00:02:03,582 --> 00:02:05,250 At least you're already in makeup. 33 00:02:07,753 --> 00:02:09,296 Welcome home, sir. 34 00:02:10,214 --> 00:02:13,003 It's so nice to see you finally coming out of your shell. 35 00:02:13,008 --> 00:02:15,255 - It's been a crazy ride. - That was a good one. 36 00:02:15,260 --> 00:02:17,841 Jon Favreau rung me up and... 37 00:02:17,846 --> 00:02:21,220 We had made a movie together called Wimbledon. 38 00:02:21,225 --> 00:02:22,930 He rung me up and he said, 39 00:02:22,935 --> 00:02:27,935 "I'm making this movie with Robert Downey, and he's Iron Man. 40 00:02:27,940 --> 00:02:32,539 And I need sort of a really boring, personality-less voice 41 00:02:32,544 --> 00:02:34,858 for the computer that runs his world. 42 00:02:34,863 --> 00:02:38,278 And I immediately thought of you, Paul". 43 00:02:38,283 --> 00:02:40,364 Rendering periodic table, sir. 44 00:02:40,369 --> 00:02:42,783 How do you say no when you're asked so nicely? 45 00:02:45,207 --> 00:02:46,870 Anyway, and it was a great gig. 46 00:02:46,875 --> 00:02:51,583 They'd shot everything and whatever still needed clarification, 47 00:02:51,588 --> 00:02:53,604 you could always just have JARVIS 48 00:02:53,608 --> 00:02:55,254 say, "The baddies are coming!" 49 00:02:55,259 --> 00:02:57,381 Sir, it appears that this suit can fly. 50 00:02:57,386 --> 00:02:59,091 Duly noted. Take me to maximum altitude. 51 00:02:59,096 --> 00:03:01,426 And then, I don't know how the next bit happened. 52 00:03:01,431 --> 00:03:04,805 I guess Joss Whedon had seen me in some movie, 53 00:03:04,810 --> 00:03:07,274 and figured out a way for me to actually work for a living, 54 00:03:07,279 --> 00:03:08,776 if you can call it work. 55 00:03:08,781 --> 00:03:11,478 So, then that happened. That was Age of Ultron. 56 00:03:17,277 --> 00:03:18,874 Starting with Ultron, 57 00:03:18,879 --> 00:03:22,573 Marvel really was so excited to bring Wanda into the MCU. 58 00:03:22,578 --> 00:03:27,828 And was only really teeing me up for possibilities 59 00:03:27,833 --> 00:03:30,291 that we didn't know if we would actually 60 00:03:30,295 --> 00:03:32,583 fulfill those possibilities or not. 61 00:03:32,588 --> 00:03:35,752 I looked in your head, and I saw annihilation. 62 00:03:35,757 --> 00:03:36,829 Look again. 63 00:03:36,834 --> 00:03:39,381 So, we would place Easter eggs in certain places, 64 00:03:39,386 --> 00:03:43,260 whether it's just a glance too long with Vision or just... 65 00:03:43,265 --> 00:03:46,810 We were trying to play around with that in Age of Ultron. 66 00:03:48,253 --> 00:03:51,393 I feel like the hand-off to different directors 67 00:03:51,398 --> 00:03:54,004 have been completely different experiences 68 00:03:54,008 --> 00:03:55,864 for this character specifically. 69 00:03:55,869 --> 00:03:59,551 I think the Russo Brothers were very honest about, 70 00:03:59,556 --> 00:04:04,406 "You know, I really want this to be something that you shepherd 71 00:04:04,411 --> 00:04:06,700 and that you take full ownership of". 72 00:04:06,705 --> 00:04:08,744 And I was like, "Okay". 73 00:04:08,749 --> 00:04:13,790 So, I had to choreograph with this choreographer, Jenny White, 74 00:04:13,795 --> 00:04:16,210 who we brought on in Age of Ultron. 75 00:04:16,215 --> 00:04:18,086 Bring in that energy and throw it back out. 76 00:04:18,091 --> 00:04:22,182 We just had to figure out our own place at the same time 77 00:04:22,187 --> 00:04:24,513 while Wanda was trying to figure out her own place 78 00:04:24,517 --> 00:04:27,221 in the Avengers compound 79 00:04:27,226 --> 00:04:29,286 and finding solace in Vision. 80 00:04:29,811 --> 00:04:31,079 Tell me what you feel. 81 00:04:35,859 --> 00:04:37,861 I just feel you. 82 00:04:38,403 --> 00:04:41,026 And I think Paul and I, we both really believed, 83 00:04:41,031 --> 00:04:44,491 as much as it's fun to be part of the humor 84 00:04:44,495 --> 00:04:46,423 and the playfulness of the Avengers, 85 00:04:46,428 --> 00:04:49,034 we've always... my character specifically, 86 00:04:49,039 --> 00:04:51,703 has also always, in our relationship together, 87 00:04:51,708 --> 00:04:55,374 we've kind of just created just an emotional foundation 88 00:04:55,379 --> 00:04:58,043 that doesn't play around with irony, really. 89 00:04:58,048 --> 00:05:01,088 Which is kind of odd in these movies 90 00:05:01,093 --> 00:05:05,425 when so much is ironic and funny and fun to watch. 91 00:05:05,430 --> 00:05:07,300 But it's also kind of lovely 92 00:05:07,304 --> 00:05:09,721 that it's told through their strange love story. 93 00:05:09,726 --> 00:05:12,271 We are out of time. 94 00:05:13,313 --> 00:05:14,560 I can't. 95 00:05:14,565 --> 00:05:15,853 Yes, you can. 96 00:05:15,858 --> 00:05:17,601 It shouldn't be you, but it is. 97 00:05:27,369 --> 00:05:28,579 I love you. 98 00:05:39,464 --> 00:05:40,544 Hey. 99 00:05:42,885 --> 00:05:46,717 Now we can begin. Wanda, you pick. 100 00:05:46,722 --> 00:05:48,552 And then moving on to the show 101 00:05:48,557 --> 00:05:51,889 with Mary Livanos, our producer, and Jac Schaeffer, our creator, 102 00:05:51,894 --> 00:05:55,893 they really honed in on all these things that were in my head, 103 00:05:55,898 --> 00:05:58,314 and all these inner monologues and threads 104 00:05:58,318 --> 00:06:00,689 and arcs that I kind of just created. 105 00:06:00,694 --> 00:06:03,609 And they just really took it in such a deep way 106 00:06:03,614 --> 00:06:06,445 and created such beautiful arcs. 107 00:06:06,450 --> 00:06:08,160 Morning, wife! Morning, sons! 108 00:06:08,827 --> 00:06:10,866 Morning, unfamiliar wet animal. 109 00:06:10,871 --> 00:06:11,950 Who's this? 110 00:06:11,955 --> 00:06:15,412 It's such a homage to the sort of American sitcoms 111 00:06:15,417 --> 00:06:17,915 throughout the 20th century. 112 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:19,333 What kind of housewife would I be 113 00:06:19,338 --> 00:06:20,824 if I didn't have a gourmet meal 114 00:06:20,828 --> 00:06:22,794 for four just lying about the place? 115 00:06:22,799 --> 00:06:25,052 Jac Schaeffer has done such a great job. 116 00:06:25,452 --> 00:06:28,880 It's such a little beautiful puzzle box. 117 00:06:31,975 --> 00:06:34,973 I was lucky enough to be invited to look at the materials 118 00:06:34,978 --> 00:06:37,017 and sort of digest it and think about it. 119 00:06:37,022 --> 00:06:38,936 And there was so much that was already there. 120 00:06:38,941 --> 00:06:40,521 This is Kevin Feige's baby. 121 00:06:40,526 --> 00:06:45,192 He loves the show and had some really distinct ideas and visuals 122 00:06:45,197 --> 00:06:47,157 and things that they all wanted to achieve. 123 00:06:52,955 --> 00:06:55,285 Matt Shakman is just the person to direct 124 00:06:55,290 --> 00:06:58,497 a complicated Rubik's cube of a show like this. 125 00:06:58,502 --> 00:07:01,583 He runs the Geffen Playhouse back in LA. 126 00:07:01,588 --> 00:07:04,086 He's worked on Game of Thrones. 127 00:07:04,091 --> 00:07:05,879 He's worked on countless sitcoms 128 00:07:05,884 --> 00:07:09,258 and, in fact, starred, back when he was younger, 129 00:07:09,263 --> 00:07:11,593 in sitcoms as a child actor, 130 00:07:11,598 --> 00:07:14,763 and he is just the Swiss Army knife of a human 131 00:07:14,768 --> 00:07:16,557 that we need for a show like this. 132 00:07:16,562 --> 00:07:18,814 Hart goes back in. Door slams. 133 00:07:19,356 --> 00:07:21,019 He goes to the phone! 134 00:07:21,024 --> 00:07:23,272 We pause here. All right. 135 00:07:23,277 --> 00:07:25,566 And let's continue on with our ladies over here. 136 00:07:25,571 --> 00:07:28,824 It blew my mind when they pitched me the concept for the show. 137 00:07:29,533 --> 00:07:33,782 More than just because the idea is outrageously fun and new, 138 00:07:33,787 --> 00:07:37,244 but also because it felt like it hit all the parts of my life. 139 00:07:37,249 --> 00:07:40,122 I grew up being on shows from the '80s 140 00:07:40,127 --> 00:07:42,488 like Facts of Life, and Diff'rent Strokes, 141 00:07:42,492 --> 00:07:44,960 Growing Pains, et cetera. 142 00:07:44,965 --> 00:07:48,422 But I've also directed a lot of large-scale spectacle. 143 00:07:48,427 --> 00:07:51,498 And so, the idea that there existed a project 144 00:07:51,502 --> 00:07:52,676 in the Marvel Universe, 145 00:07:52,681 --> 00:07:55,220 which I'm also an enormous fan of 146 00:07:55,225 --> 00:07:56,808 and dressed up like superheroes 147 00:07:56,812 --> 00:07:58,891 from the Marvel comic books when I was a kid 148 00:07:58,896 --> 00:08:00,392 until they told me I had to stop, 149 00:08:00,397 --> 00:08:01,904 the idea that I could combine 150 00:08:01,908 --> 00:08:03,854 all these things that I've always loved 151 00:08:03,859 --> 00:08:07,107 into one crazy project was almost too hard to believe. 152 00:08:07,112 --> 00:08:08,275 It's too good to be true. 153 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:09,943 All right, ready, Janell? 154 00:08:09,948 --> 00:08:11,633 - Yeah. - All right, let's do it. 155 00:08:19,374 --> 00:08:20,871 And action! 156 00:08:20,876 --> 00:08:22,415 We're starting in the 1950s, 157 00:08:22,419 --> 00:08:26,627 so it was always our dream that if we did a true multi-camera show, 158 00:08:26,632 --> 00:08:28,045 we would have a live audience. 159 00:08:28,050 --> 00:08:30,547 And we knew it was a risk, we knew it would be an expense, 160 00:08:30,552 --> 00:08:31,798 almost an indulgence, 161 00:08:31,803 --> 00:08:35,344 but for the actors, for the energy, and for the crew, 162 00:08:35,349 --> 00:08:37,137 it will be really exciting. 163 00:08:37,142 --> 00:08:40,057 I've been playing to the audience, so... 164 00:08:40,062 --> 00:08:41,505 You tell me where the camera is, 165 00:08:41,509 --> 00:08:43,332 and I'll start playing to the camera. 166 00:08:45,567 --> 00:08:49,399 So you're on our sitcom stage for the first episode. 167 00:08:49,404 --> 00:08:52,444 Over there is Vision's office, where he works, 168 00:08:52,449 --> 00:08:54,571 and he works for a guy named Mr. Hart. 169 00:08:54,576 --> 00:08:58,200 Mr. Hart and his dear lady wife, Mrs. Hart. 170 00:08:58,205 --> 00:09:00,369 That's what I just said. What's wrong with you, son? 171 00:09:00,374 --> 00:09:03,080 - Have you got a screw loose? - Oh, no, sir, screws all tight, sir. 172 00:09:03,085 --> 00:09:05,185 And then over here, right to your right, 173 00:09:05,189 --> 00:09:08,669 is the house where Wanda and Vision live. 174 00:09:08,674 --> 00:09:10,735 This is their kitchen, over here to the right, 175 00:09:10,739 --> 00:09:12,130 this beautiful blue kitchen. 176 00:09:12,135 --> 00:09:14,052 But when you see it on the actual show, 177 00:09:14,056 --> 00:09:15,301 it's gonna be in black and white, 178 00:09:15,305 --> 00:09:17,594 so you won't actually get to see the color of it. 179 00:09:17,599 --> 00:09:20,013 And then over here is their living room. 180 00:09:20,018 --> 00:09:22,742 So what's a single gal like you 181 00:09:22,746 --> 00:09:25,519 doing rattling around this big house? 182 00:09:25,524 --> 00:09:27,980 Behind you is our live audience seating. 183 00:09:27,985 --> 00:09:29,940 We wanted it to feel period, 184 00:09:29,945 --> 00:09:32,401 so that's why we have the old wooden chairs 185 00:09:32,406 --> 00:09:35,445 and we've matched the railings and how it all looks, 186 00:09:35,450 --> 00:09:38,323 because so much of it is about the audience's experience. 187 00:09:38,328 --> 00:09:40,868 Kevin Feige and I had a lovely lunch with Dick Van Dyke 188 00:09:40,873 --> 00:09:43,245 shortly before we started pre-production on the show, 189 00:09:43,250 --> 00:09:46,456 so we could really get in touch with how they did it 190 00:09:46,461 --> 00:09:48,461 and to be as authentic as we could, 191 00:09:48,465 --> 00:09:50,752 not just in how it would look and feel, 192 00:09:50,757 --> 00:09:52,629 but in how it was put together, 193 00:09:52,634 --> 00:09:54,715 the style, the way they rehearsed, 194 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:56,967 the way they approached blocking and shooting. 195 00:09:56,972 --> 00:09:59,928 Wanda would technically go to a quick change. 196 00:09:59,933 --> 00:10:01,430 She's not gonna do it now. 197 00:10:01,435 --> 00:10:04,391 We'll get the living room dressed. It's happening. 198 00:10:04,396 --> 00:10:07,290 And then we would light the candles right at the very end, 199 00:10:07,294 --> 00:10:08,687 and we would go. 200 00:10:08,692 --> 00:10:10,772 The Dick Van Dyke Show really was theater. 201 00:10:10,777 --> 00:10:11,940 They put it up. 202 00:10:11,945 --> 00:10:14,443 They shot it once in front of the audience, 203 00:10:14,448 --> 00:10:16,195 like a play, all the way through. 204 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:17,988 You can feel it when you watch that show. 205 00:10:17,993 --> 00:10:20,849 The audience is in it, like when they're in the theater. 206 00:10:21,914 --> 00:10:25,412 The adrenaline, the audience, and the actors feed off of each other. 207 00:10:25,417 --> 00:10:27,448 And that creates something that you can't imitate. 208 00:10:27,453 --> 00:10:29,791 That's why we're going to these great lengths. 209 00:10:29,796 --> 00:10:31,251 And our actors have been wonderful. 210 00:10:31,256 --> 00:10:33,837 I'm a little anxious about the whole live... 211 00:10:33,842 --> 00:10:39,701 I haven't been in front of a live audience since 1884. 212 00:10:39,706 --> 00:10:41,094 - Oh, is that right? Oh. - Yeah. 213 00:10:41,099 --> 00:10:43,597 So, I'm a little anxious about the whole thing. 214 00:10:43,602 --> 00:10:45,140 Yeah, I would be too. 215 00:10:45,145 --> 00:10:47,184 Still, I just, you know... 216 00:10:47,189 --> 00:10:49,186 Hundred-plus years ago. 217 00:10:49,191 --> 00:10:51,443 - Hundred-plus years ago. - That's a long time. 218 00:10:53,028 --> 00:10:56,193 Welcome to WandaVision. Thank you so much, guys. 219 00:10:58,158 --> 00:10:59,947 We're so excited to have you guys. 220 00:10:59,952 --> 00:11:02,157 We've been working hard the last two weeks 221 00:11:02,162 --> 00:11:03,784 on making this happen for you all. 222 00:11:03,789 --> 00:11:06,311 If you guys can give us all the laughter 223 00:11:06,315 --> 00:11:08,330 and all the natural reactions you have 224 00:11:08,335 --> 00:11:10,833 to what we're doing, we would be most grateful. 225 00:11:10,838 --> 00:11:12,876 And then you will probably hear yourself, 226 00:11:12,881 --> 00:11:15,170 especially if you're one of those loud laughers... 227 00:11:16,260 --> 00:11:18,257 ... when you actually watch the show later on. 228 00:11:18,262 --> 00:11:19,635 Now, I would love to introduce you 229 00:11:19,639 --> 00:11:21,760 to the characters you're gonna meet today. 230 00:11:21,765 --> 00:11:23,595 David Lengel. 231 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:24,888 Asif Ali. 232 00:11:24,893 --> 00:11:26,598 Debra Jo Rupp. 233 00:11:26,603 --> 00:11:28,100 Fred Melamed. 234 00:11:28,105 --> 00:11:29,726 Kathryn Hahn. 235 00:11:29,731 --> 00:11:32,354 The Vision himself, Paul Bettany. 236 00:11:32,359 --> 00:11:35,274 And, as Wanda Maximoff, Elizabeth Olsen! 237 00:11:38,615 --> 00:11:40,863 I mean, I've done theater before, 238 00:11:40,868 --> 00:11:44,116 but shooting a TV show in front of a live audience 239 00:11:44,121 --> 00:11:47,119 was like a strange meta experience for me 240 00:11:47,124 --> 00:11:49,788 because I grew up on the Full House set 241 00:11:49,793 --> 00:11:53,041 watching these live tapings on Fridays, 242 00:11:53,046 --> 00:11:57,713 never thinking that that would ever be a form of reality for me. 243 00:11:57,718 --> 00:11:59,131 Guess who? 244 00:11:59,136 --> 00:12:00,924 Oh. 245 00:12:00,929 --> 00:12:03,010 Is that my host behind me? 246 00:12:03,015 --> 00:12:04,720 It certainly is! 247 00:12:04,725 --> 00:12:07,014 - Lovely to make your acquaintance. - Yes! 248 00:12:07,019 --> 00:12:10,475 Doing sitcom gave me so much joy every day. 249 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,478 I think it gave all of us so much actual joy. 250 00:12:13,483 --> 00:12:14,730 It's really different. 251 00:12:14,735 --> 00:12:16,565 - High-octane. - It's very authentic, 252 00:12:16,570 --> 00:12:22,070 you know, late '50s sitcom, and it feels very different. 253 00:12:22,075 --> 00:12:25,199 You have to swing for the fences and hope that you... 254 00:12:25,204 --> 00:12:26,742 We're playing for an audience. 255 00:12:26,747 --> 00:12:29,369 And I feel like in the Marvel films, it's a cinematic universe, 256 00:12:29,374 --> 00:12:31,705 and this we're playing for laughs. 257 00:12:31,710 --> 00:12:33,832 I've never been allowed to be funny. 258 00:12:33,837 --> 00:12:36,502 This is my first time getting to be funny as Wanda. 259 00:12:36,507 --> 00:12:37,616 What a gas. 260 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:39,713 I'm very funny. 261 00:12:39,718 --> 00:12:41,757 - She is enormously funny. - I'm very funny. 262 00:12:41,762 --> 00:12:43,272 I think I have another idea. 263 00:12:45,098 --> 00:12:46,845 - And... - And then I change. 264 00:12:51,188 --> 00:12:53,769 Every member of the crew was dressed in costumes. 265 00:12:53,774 --> 00:12:55,646 Everybody got into the spirit of it. 266 00:12:55,651 --> 00:12:59,566 And then the audience came in, and we just went for it. 267 00:12:59,571 --> 00:13:04,363 It was nerve-racking, but I think it was so rewarding and so funny. 268 00:13:04,368 --> 00:13:05,697 Us running backstage, 269 00:13:05,702 --> 00:13:07,702 bumping into me, bumping into Kathryn Hahn, 270 00:13:07,706 --> 00:13:09,868 and making her drop her props or whatever. 271 00:13:09,873 --> 00:13:13,121 Everybody's getting ready behind doors to come out. 272 00:13:13,126 --> 00:13:14,957 And it was so much fun. 273 00:13:14,962 --> 00:13:17,167 Oh, my! 274 00:13:17,172 --> 00:13:18,502 That was just a dream. 275 00:13:18,507 --> 00:13:21,255 The costumes are so fabulous. 276 00:13:21,260 --> 00:13:23,465 Mayes, the designer, is such a genius. 277 00:13:23,470 --> 00:13:25,008 That dress! 278 00:13:25,013 --> 00:13:27,517 Yes, the dress! It's... It's so... 279 00:13:27,521 --> 00:13:30,727 It's Sokovian, is what it is! Yes! 280 00:13:31,353 --> 00:13:34,726 It is my favorite period for clothes 281 00:13:34,731 --> 00:13:37,938 because it shows off a waist if you have a waist. 282 00:13:37,943 --> 00:13:40,440 I have a waist. I have no limbs. 283 00:13:40,445 --> 00:13:42,943 I'm very short, but I have a waist, 284 00:13:42,948 --> 00:13:45,112 so I really like the '50s. So, that was great. 285 00:13:45,117 --> 00:13:47,823 I kind of like the hair and I have a magnificent hat. 286 00:13:47,828 --> 00:13:50,328 They had a little table with a whole bunch of hats, 287 00:13:50,332 --> 00:13:51,577 and I just went, 288 00:13:51,582 --> 00:13:53,287 "Could I have that hat, please?" 289 00:13:53,292 --> 00:13:54,997 And it was perfect. 290 00:13:55,002 --> 00:13:57,460 But the '50s undergarments are 291 00:13:57,464 --> 00:13:59,293 not the most comfortable things, 292 00:13:59,298 --> 00:14:00,878 but they help with your posture. 293 00:14:00,883 --> 00:14:03,839 Yeah, I got my Spanx on. My lifts in my heels. 294 00:14:03,844 --> 00:14:06,466 I've got my Spanx on. I've got my flats on. 295 00:14:06,471 --> 00:14:08,719 - Ready to go. - But I'm ready emotionally. 296 00:14:08,724 --> 00:14:09,979 You wanna talk about your butt? 297 00:14:09,984 --> 00:14:11,557 Yeah, I did want to talk about my butt, for a second. 298 00:14:11,561 --> 00:14:13,182 I wanna talk about my dress first. 299 00:14:13,187 --> 00:14:16,143 Um, it makes me have better posture. 300 00:14:16,148 --> 00:14:19,396 And it makes me wanna walk like this and... 301 00:14:19,401 --> 00:14:22,024 I have exactly the same thing, but with my fake butt. 302 00:14:22,029 --> 00:14:23,059 - With your fake butt. - Yeah, 303 00:14:23,063 --> 00:14:25,886 it makes me stand properly, and makes me wanna do this too. 304 00:14:25,891 --> 00:14:27,154 - This? - Yeah. 305 00:14:27,159 --> 00:14:30,073 We knew that when we started this show, 306 00:14:30,078 --> 00:14:32,578 the way that we were going to 307 00:14:32,582 --> 00:14:35,204 sell it authentically to an audience 308 00:14:35,209 --> 00:14:38,332 would be with every level of recreation. 309 00:14:38,337 --> 00:14:40,792 So, that includes the camera lenses, 310 00:14:40,797 --> 00:14:44,588 that includes the set decoration, era-accurate lighting. 311 00:14:44,593 --> 00:14:46,256 Jess Hall, who's a brilliant DP, 312 00:14:46,261 --> 00:14:49,718 looked at old original prints of these television shows, 313 00:14:49,723 --> 00:14:51,261 and he was able to try to match 314 00:14:51,266 --> 00:14:54,515 how closely as we could possibly get to what it looked like then. 315 00:14:55,687 --> 00:14:57,726 You truly are a pioneer! 316 00:14:57,731 --> 00:14:59,149 Action! 317 00:15:00,317 --> 00:15:02,027 Freeze! Swap! 318 00:15:05,405 --> 00:15:06,485 Action! 319 00:15:06,490 --> 00:15:07,578 Oh, no, too much! 320 00:15:07,583 --> 00:15:09,099 We wanted to make sure we approached it 321 00:15:09,103 --> 00:15:11,365 with authenticity and not parody, 322 00:15:11,370 --> 00:15:14,209 and to that end, we wanted to shoot it the way they shot it. 323 00:15:14,214 --> 00:15:15,462 That means visual effects 324 00:15:15,466 --> 00:15:17,588 that would have been done as special effects. 325 00:15:17,593 --> 00:15:20,332 Luckily, Dan Sudick, who's our special effects coordinator, 326 00:15:20,337 --> 00:15:22,876 when I first had my call with him, when I started this 327 00:15:22,881 --> 00:15:24,711 and I laid out this idea, 328 00:15:24,716 --> 00:15:26,880 I didn't know if he was going to like the idea 329 00:15:26,885 --> 00:15:29,992 or he's gonna be like, "What're you talking about? I blow things up!" 330 00:15:29,997 --> 00:15:31,802 He actually loved it. He started laughing. 331 00:15:31,807 --> 00:15:34,888 He said, "I came up under the guys who did Bewitched. 332 00:15:34,893 --> 00:15:36,098 They were my mentors. 333 00:15:36,103 --> 00:15:38,725 And so, I started my career doing things on wires. 334 00:15:38,730 --> 00:15:40,602 I know how to do it. It's a lot of fun". 335 00:15:40,607 --> 00:15:43,313 And so, we have him and his team 336 00:15:43,318 --> 00:15:47,317 doing really complicated puppeteering gags with wires and rods, 337 00:15:47,322 --> 00:15:48,908 and they're spending just as much time 338 00:15:48,912 --> 00:15:50,763 on that as they are blowing things up. 339 00:15:50,768 --> 00:15:52,322 How can I be of assistance? 340 00:15:52,327 --> 00:15:54,790 Well, the chicken is no longer a chicken, 341 00:15:54,794 --> 00:15:56,218 and the lobsters just flew the coop 342 00:15:56,223 --> 00:15:57,953 so the steak is the last man standing. 343 00:15:57,958 --> 00:15:59,872 I went to theater school. 344 00:15:59,877 --> 00:16:02,040 You study screwball comedies. 345 00:16:02,045 --> 00:16:05,285 You study film noir style of acting, 346 00:16:05,290 --> 00:16:07,588 you feel so stupid when you're in college. You're like, 347 00:16:07,593 --> 00:16:09,674 "When am I ever gonna do this? No one makes this anymore". 348 00:16:09,678 --> 00:16:12,161 And so, getting to use all those tools 349 00:16:12,165 --> 00:16:14,136 that you have somewhere in you. 350 00:16:15,934 --> 00:16:18,932 Something that I don't really get to do. 351 00:16:18,937 --> 00:16:21,393 Now, that's romantic. 352 00:16:21,398 --> 00:16:22,880 I think the '50s was the hardest 353 00:16:22,884 --> 00:16:24,604 for me because it was like a warm up. 354 00:16:24,609 --> 00:16:26,523 Once it clicked, it was a blast. 355 00:16:26,528 --> 00:16:28,567 Down in one! Down in one! 356 00:16:28,572 --> 00:16:30,611 Please eat before it gets cold. 357 00:16:30,616 --> 00:16:32,114 I think what it did was it 358 00:16:32,118 --> 00:16:34,089 made me think I've wasted my life. 359 00:16:34,094 --> 00:16:36,074 I should've been on a sitcom all these years. 360 00:16:36,079 --> 00:16:38,660 I... I just loved it. 361 00:16:38,665 --> 00:16:41,038 I should have prefaced, I'm a very shallow person, 362 00:16:41,043 --> 00:16:44,666 so I really rely on people... people applauding. 363 00:16:44,671 --> 00:16:46,210 - Yes! - Thank you very much! 364 00:16:46,215 --> 00:16:48,342 Thank you! 365 00:16:50,302 --> 00:16:51,386 Thank you! 366 00:16:52,471 --> 00:16:53,514 All right! 367 00:17:01,730 --> 00:17:04,895 Part of the challenge in producing a show like this 368 00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:07,441 is that we really are making one 369 00:17:07,445 --> 00:17:09,566 giant movie in the way that we shoot. 370 00:17:09,571 --> 00:17:12,001 Each day, each week, we're shooting 371 00:17:12,005 --> 00:17:13,620 pivotal moments of the series, 372 00:17:13,625 --> 00:17:15,032 we have to make sure that 373 00:17:15,036 --> 00:17:18,200 the larger story, as a whole, is seamless. 374 00:17:18,205 --> 00:17:21,295 We really created all of these 375 00:17:21,299 --> 00:17:23,288 different characters in the town. 376 00:17:23,293 --> 00:17:24,920 And we have our core cast. 377 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:29,294 Raspberry or cheese-filled? 378 00:17:29,299 --> 00:17:31,713 Oh, neither for me, thank you. I don't eat food. 379 00:17:31,718 --> 00:17:37,183 We got the Davids. We have Asif. We have Emma. 380 00:17:37,188 --> 00:17:38,269 What brought you here? 381 00:17:38,273 --> 00:17:39,807 How long have you been married? 382 00:17:39,811 --> 00:17:42,015 And why don't you have children yet? 383 00:17:42,020 --> 00:17:43,892 So grateful we have Debra Jo, 384 00:17:43,897 --> 00:17:46,311 who is sitcom-gold 385 00:17:46,316 --> 00:17:49,064 and gets to be a part in our wacky show. 386 00:17:49,069 --> 00:17:53,193 My, um, great nephew basically said 387 00:17:53,198 --> 00:17:56,497 if I did not take the job, he would never visit me again, 388 00:17:56,502 --> 00:17:58,907 so, I... Well, here I am. 389 00:17:58,912 --> 00:18:01,554 She loved getting to film 390 00:18:01,558 --> 00:18:04,221 some of the more Marvel-y stuff that we did in the finale. 391 00:18:04,226 --> 00:18:07,466 She just thought it was fabulous. 392 00:18:07,471 --> 00:18:09,056 I got to do this thing. 393 00:18:09,798 --> 00:18:12,337 Oh, my God! I got to do this thing where you... 394 00:18:12,342 --> 00:18:13,672 I don't know what it's called. 395 00:18:13,677 --> 00:18:16,633 It's a body scan, okay? And so you stand... 396 00:18:16,638 --> 00:18:18,218 I took pictures. It's amazing. 397 00:18:18,223 --> 00:18:20,767 But I won't show them to anyone, Marvel. 398 00:18:23,812 --> 00:18:25,142 Kathryn Hahn. 399 00:18:27,941 --> 00:18:30,714 I don't know how I went so long never working with her. 400 00:18:30,719 --> 00:18:33,050 I've had the greatest time. 401 00:18:33,055 --> 00:18:35,052 You're, like, a monologue early, Kathryn. 402 00:18:35,057 --> 00:18:36,236 I was feeling left out. 403 00:18:36,241 --> 00:18:40,741 The journey with her consistently throughout the decades 404 00:18:40,746 --> 00:18:44,536 and how the Nosy Neighbor is so prominent. 405 00:18:44,541 --> 00:18:46,079 Spoiler alert! 406 00:18:46,084 --> 00:18:48,665 She nailed all of the layers 407 00:18:48,670 --> 00:18:51,877 that were required of her and then went beyond. 408 00:18:51,882 --> 00:18:53,337 - Cut! - One more! 409 00:18:53,342 --> 00:18:54,663 - One more! Still rolling. - Ready? 410 00:18:54,667 --> 00:18:57,214 This character is like a blooming onion to me. 411 00:18:57,219 --> 00:19:01,084 I mean, the fact that I was able to start on the outside 412 00:19:01,089 --> 00:19:03,847 and kind of move into the center 413 00:19:03,852 --> 00:19:07,935 as the episodes go on was, like, such an actor's dream. 414 00:19:07,940 --> 00:19:10,604 I keep saying it was like a Tracey Ullman... 415 00:19:10,609 --> 00:19:11,980 Like a Tracey Ullman special. 416 00:19:11,985 --> 00:19:14,483 Well, I was just on my way to Jazzercise 417 00:19:14,488 --> 00:19:16,403 when I heard your brand-new bundles 418 00:19:16,407 --> 00:19:19,071 of joy were on a sleep strike. 419 00:19:19,076 --> 00:19:20,864 And the fact that her true center 420 00:19:20,869 --> 00:19:24,706 was this fantastical, incredible witch, was like... 421 00:19:25,207 --> 00:19:28,522 Who gets to do that? I remember when it was pitched to me... 422 00:19:28,527 --> 00:19:31,275 And it's so exciting to be able to say this out loud to somebody 423 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:34,111 'cause I have not been able to say it to anybody. Um... 424 00:19:34,116 --> 00:19:36,272 But when it was pitched to me, I was like 425 00:19:36,277 --> 00:19:39,391 I could not imagine a part in the Marvel Universe 426 00:19:39,396 --> 00:19:42,102 that I would have wanted to play more. 427 00:19:53,527 --> 00:19:56,029 Oh, good times! 428 00:19:56,989 --> 00:19:59,486 - Good times! - And cut! 429 00:19:59,491 --> 00:20:01,280 - Did you hear that? - No. 430 00:20:01,285 --> 00:20:04,708 It was like a... a chattering sound, like... 431 00:20:04,713 --> 00:20:05,793 Oh! Like a... 432 00:20:07,666 --> 00:20:08,745 Yeah. 433 00:20:08,750 --> 00:20:11,957 That's my new ice maker, built right into the fridge. 434 00:20:11,962 --> 00:20:13,550 Oh! 435 00:20:13,555 --> 00:20:15,294 You're fancy. 436 00:20:15,299 --> 00:20:20,340 I have wanted to be in the MCU since the MCU debuted. 437 00:20:20,345 --> 00:20:23,886 I didn't even know what I was auditioning for. 438 00:20:23,891 --> 00:20:27,181 We all know Marvel is very top secret. 439 00:20:27,186 --> 00:20:29,474 And I was just sent some sides. 440 00:20:29,479 --> 00:20:32,978 I think it was the '70s episode. So, I was very confused. 441 00:20:32,983 --> 00:20:36,315 It didn't say it was '70s, but it's high farce. 442 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:39,843 And I was like, "What do I do with this? I'm not sure". 443 00:20:39,848 --> 00:20:43,472 Because it's not Marvel as my mind can process. 444 00:20:43,477 --> 00:20:45,991 And so they sent notes like, 445 00:20:45,996 --> 00:20:48,952 "Just overact. It's okay, just go for it. 446 00:20:48,957 --> 00:20:51,852 We don't care that you don't feel that it's grounded. 447 00:20:51,857 --> 00:20:53,357 That's not what we're looking for". 448 00:20:53,362 --> 00:20:54,775 So, I was like, "Okay". 449 00:20:54,780 --> 00:20:58,654 And I did some very great overacting. 450 00:20:58,659 --> 00:21:00,093 Oh, sugar. 451 00:21:00,928 --> 00:21:02,508 He hired me! 452 00:21:02,513 --> 00:21:04,218 Oh! 453 00:21:04,223 --> 00:21:06,345 Wanda! I landed a promotion. 454 00:21:06,350 --> 00:21:09,848 And now that I've gone all corporate, I need some office supplies. 455 00:21:09,853 --> 00:21:12,809 I just didn't know, and I was like, "Okay". 456 00:21:12,814 --> 00:21:15,062 And I let it go for, like, two weeks 457 00:21:15,067 --> 00:21:18,524 because you can't hold these things too close to your heart 458 00:21:18,529 --> 00:21:20,776 'cause you will get heartbroken so many times. 459 00:21:20,781 --> 00:21:24,238 But this time, there was no heartbreak. 460 00:21:24,243 --> 00:21:27,547 They called, and they were like, "Hey, you got the part". 461 00:21:27,552 --> 00:21:30,267 And I'm like, "What part? What's the part?" 462 00:21:30,272 --> 00:21:33,308 I went, "What is it?" But it's Marvel. Okay. 463 00:21:33,669 --> 00:21:36,124 Before they even told me what it was, 464 00:21:36,129 --> 00:21:38,329 I said to my agent, I was like, 465 00:21:38,334 --> 00:21:40,662 "Oh, my gosh, what if it's Monica Rambeau? 466 00:21:40,667 --> 00:21:43,215 What if it's Monica Rambeau?" 467 00:21:43,220 --> 00:21:46,760 And then it was Monica Rambeau, and I lost it. 468 00:21:46,765 --> 00:21:50,055 And I practically tried to jump off a set of stairs 469 00:21:50,060 --> 00:21:52,679 'cause I thought I could fly. I was so excited. 470 00:21:53,786 --> 00:21:56,909 So, when we leave Captain Marvel, Monica is a young girl. 471 00:21:56,914 --> 00:21:59,481 She's got her whole life ahead of her. 472 00:21:59,486 --> 00:22:00,983 - You have to go! - Monica! 473 00:22:00,988 --> 00:22:03,589 You've a chance to fly the coolest mission in the history of missions. 474 00:22:03,593 --> 00:22:05,306 And you're gonna give it up to sit on the couch 475 00:22:05,310 --> 00:22:07,216 and watch Fresh Prince with me? 476 00:22:07,944 --> 00:22:09,816 I just think you should consider 477 00:22:09,821 --> 00:22:12,286 what kind of example you're setting for your daughter. 478 00:22:12,291 --> 00:22:15,164 And when we pick up with her in WandaVision, 479 00:22:15,169 --> 00:22:19,385 we find out she now works for S.W.O.R.D., as a astronaut, 480 00:22:19,390 --> 00:22:22,413 and I feel like we've gotten to a really 481 00:22:22,418 --> 00:22:25,418 great origin story for Monica. 482 00:22:28,515 --> 00:22:32,222 Having the opportunity to play Monica Rambeau is truly an honor, 483 00:22:32,227 --> 00:22:35,978 and to have a Black female superhero 484 00:22:35,982 --> 00:22:39,229 be on a screen is monumental. 485 00:22:42,789 --> 00:22:45,125 Why didn't anyone tell me the plan? 486 00:22:48,577 --> 00:22:51,707 It's been so amazing to bring Darcy back, 487 00:22:51,711 --> 00:22:53,952 especially in kind of an unexpected way. 488 00:22:53,957 --> 00:22:56,331 You know, the last time we saw Darcy, she was 489 00:22:56,335 --> 00:22:58,729 still Jane Foster's intern 490 00:22:58,734 --> 00:23:00,334 and kind of her friend. 491 00:23:00,339 --> 00:23:01,975 We weren't really sure what's going on with her. 492 00:23:01,979 --> 00:23:04,379 Apparently, she's just been going to college this whole time. 493 00:23:04,384 --> 00:23:06,340 And now she's an astrophysicist. 494 00:23:06,345 --> 00:23:10,010 My equipment registered an extremely high level of CMBR. That's... 495 00:23:10,015 --> 00:23:12,304 Relic Radiation dating back to the Big Bang. 496 00:23:12,309 --> 00:23:15,140 Yeah, entwined was a broadcast frequency. 497 00:23:15,145 --> 00:23:17,768 So I had your goons pick me up a sweet vintage TV. 498 00:23:17,773 --> 00:23:19,561 And when I plug this bad boy in, 499 00:23:19,566 --> 00:23:22,114 the cathode ray tube inside plucked the signal out of the air 500 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,783 and decoded it just like in the olden times. 501 00:23:24,788 --> 00:23:26,610 Voilà, sound and picture. 502 00:23:26,615 --> 00:23:29,488 Randall Park, obviously, is Jimmy Woo, 503 00:23:29,493 --> 00:23:33,325 and it's been really fun to kind of have us together in scenes. 504 00:23:33,330 --> 00:23:35,319 They kind of have us with Teyonah Parris. 505 00:23:35,324 --> 00:23:39,081 There's a lot of dark, serious drama, 506 00:23:39,086 --> 00:23:41,583 and it's fun to kind of have that little break. 507 00:23:41,588 --> 00:23:43,047 You can't go back into the Hex. 508 00:23:43,052 --> 00:23:44,215 Worst case scenario, 509 00:23:44,220 --> 00:23:47,556 Wanda removes my free will and puts me in ultra-low-rise jeans. 510 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,844 I feel like it's like a family. 511 00:23:51,849 --> 00:23:53,405 It's like a big family. 512 00:23:53,409 --> 00:23:57,020 Just to be a member of the family, it's really cool. 513 00:23:57,604 --> 00:23:59,665 I mean, when I did Ant-man and the Wasp, 514 00:23:59,669 --> 00:24:00,969 I was just happy to be there. 515 00:24:00,974 --> 00:24:02,554 I thought it was gonna be a one-off. 516 00:24:02,559 --> 00:24:04,306 Your school has rules, right? 517 00:24:04,311 --> 00:24:06,358 Like, you can't draw on the walls. 518 00:24:06,363 --> 00:24:08,402 Well, your daddy went to Germany 519 00:24:08,407 --> 00:24:10,612 and drew on the walls with Captain America. 520 00:24:10,617 --> 00:24:12,879 And that was a violation of Article 16, 521 00:24:12,883 --> 00:24:15,075 paragraph 3 of the Sokovia Accords. 522 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,737 Just to have Jimmy come back is such a thrill for me 523 00:24:18,742 --> 00:24:21,590 because I just love the character so much. 524 00:24:21,595 --> 00:24:23,388 And to have so much of the character 525 00:24:23,392 --> 00:24:25,110 we established in Ant-man and the Wasp 526 00:24:25,115 --> 00:24:29,089 with the magic and the tendency to want to connect with people 527 00:24:29,094 --> 00:24:31,601 and tell stories about his life, 528 00:24:31,605 --> 00:24:33,577 even when it's not necessarily asked for. 529 00:24:33,582 --> 00:24:35,515 Like all those little things, little seeds 530 00:24:35,519 --> 00:24:37,639 that we planted in Ant-man and the Wasp, 531 00:24:37,644 --> 00:24:41,018 they all kind of get to blossom in WandaVision. 532 00:24:41,023 --> 00:24:42,604 This isn't a missing person's case, 533 00:24:42,608 --> 00:24:44,676 Captain Rambeau, it's a missing town. 534 00:24:45,332 --> 00:24:47,834 Population 3,892. 535 00:24:48,947 --> 00:24:51,116 Why haven't you gone inside to investigate? 536 00:24:51,617 --> 00:24:52,951 'Cause it doesn't want me to. 537 00:24:56,330 --> 00:25:00,120 Tonally, WandaVision runs the gamut. 538 00:25:00,125 --> 00:25:02,472 I can't even keep up myself sometimes. 539 00:25:02,477 --> 00:25:04,554 I'm like, "Which world are we in now?" 540 00:25:08,592 --> 00:25:10,382 For the first episode, 541 00:25:10,386 --> 00:25:12,487 it's the '50s, and it's silly humor, 542 00:25:12,492 --> 00:25:15,344 but it was like really great physical comedy, 543 00:25:15,349 --> 00:25:17,347 and that bleeds into the '60s, 544 00:25:17,351 --> 00:25:19,389 the second episode, which is Bewitched. 545 00:25:19,394 --> 00:25:23,018 Just mind your P's and Q's and you're gonna do just fine. 546 00:25:23,023 --> 00:25:24,811 The tone doesn't change too much. 547 00:25:24,816 --> 00:25:26,396 Darling! Oh! 548 00:25:26,401 --> 00:25:28,079 I think we still allow her 549 00:25:28,083 --> 00:25:30,275 to just become more modern of a woman 550 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,277 instead of trying to play the housewife. 551 00:25:32,282 --> 00:25:36,323 Well, thank you for giving me the strength and the courage. 552 00:25:36,328 --> 00:25:39,618 The thing that we loved so much in the '50s and in the '60s, 553 00:25:39,623 --> 00:25:42,062 between the marriages in those shows, 554 00:25:42,067 --> 00:25:45,581 is that they were like really funny and really honest, 555 00:25:45,586 --> 00:25:47,835 and, like, lovely and beautiful and felt in love. 556 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,254 - Should we put our heads together? - Very cute. 557 00:25:50,259 --> 00:25:52,159 And then we get into the'70s 558 00:25:52,164 --> 00:25:54,466 and it just becomes this, like, Brady Bunch 559 00:25:54,471 --> 00:25:58,846 kinda creepily, like, not grounded anymore. 560 00:25:58,851 --> 00:26:01,223 Strangest thing just happened outside with... 561 00:26:01,228 --> 00:26:02,599 Whoa, Nelly! 562 00:26:02,604 --> 00:26:05,602 It's a surprise initially that she got pregnant. 563 00:26:05,607 --> 00:26:07,604 We didn't know that that was possible. 564 00:26:07,609 --> 00:26:09,066 It's a magical moment 565 00:26:09,070 --> 00:26:12,234 because she's, sort of, suddenly six months pregnant. 566 00:26:12,239 --> 00:26:14,570 If you could lean in as much as... 567 00:26:14,575 --> 00:26:16,113 I have a belly in front of me. 568 00:26:16,118 --> 00:26:21,034 Her pregnancy is progressing at an alarming speed. 569 00:26:21,039 --> 00:26:23,542 You're at about four months now. Is that right? 570 00:26:24,835 --> 00:26:26,874 I was so excited to have an episode 571 00:26:26,879 --> 00:26:28,782 where I went through every single stage 572 00:26:28,786 --> 00:26:32,171 of my pregnancy in one day. 573 00:26:32,176 --> 00:26:35,090 That was fabulous. 574 00:26:35,095 --> 00:26:37,431 It was so perfect and funny. 575 00:26:39,641 --> 00:26:40,929 Vis... 576 00:26:40,934 --> 00:26:42,306 Yes, dear? 577 00:26:42,311 --> 00:26:44,016 I think my water just broke. 578 00:26:44,021 --> 00:26:47,769 We're doing this bit where I'm trying to hide that I'm pregnant. 579 00:26:47,774 --> 00:26:51,148 And so Monica is over, Teyonah's over. 580 00:26:51,153 --> 00:26:55,644 And I'm switching all these coats on and off, like, magically. 581 00:26:55,649 --> 00:26:57,197 And I'm in the kitchen and 582 00:26:57,201 --> 00:26:59,501 everything's kind of going bonkers in the kitchen. 583 00:26:59,506 --> 00:27:02,284 I'm trying to hide my belly from her. 584 00:27:02,289 --> 00:27:05,834 And so, I keep magically changing all of my coats. 585 00:27:06,496 --> 00:27:07,880 So, we'd have to freeze. 586 00:27:07,884 --> 00:27:10,828 And then someone would come on and put on my coat, 587 00:27:10,833 --> 00:27:13,335 then I'd have to freeze again, then I'd have a contraction. 588 00:27:13,926 --> 00:27:17,257 And there's a moment where I had to do a double take 589 00:27:17,262 --> 00:27:19,469 and I kept making it like a triple take, 590 00:27:19,473 --> 00:27:20,802 and a quadruple take. 591 00:27:20,807 --> 00:27:24,223 I just kept, like, amping it up each time. 592 00:27:24,228 --> 00:27:27,226 And it was the moment when Matt came up to me and he said, 593 00:27:27,231 --> 00:27:29,028 "Okay, let's try and keep it... 594 00:27:29,033 --> 00:27:30,897 I think we're doing too much now, 595 00:27:30,901 --> 00:27:32,501 let's try and keep it to a double take". 596 00:27:32,506 --> 00:27:35,020 And it was the thing that Matt keeps saying, like, 597 00:27:35,025 --> 00:27:36,772 "Go further, go further!" 598 00:27:36,777 --> 00:27:38,899 And I think that was when I laughed so hard 599 00:27:38,904 --> 00:27:41,485 because he was telling me to stop. 600 00:27:41,490 --> 00:27:44,613 Vision ran to get the doctor. He'll be back soon. 601 00:27:44,618 --> 00:27:46,399 Baby's born, and I miss it. 602 00:27:46,404 --> 00:27:48,099 But I'm there for the second baby, 603 00:27:48,103 --> 00:27:50,116 and then, "Oh, my God, they're twins!" 604 00:27:51,672 --> 00:27:55,796 So, yeah, we have twins, and, uh, they're confusing, too, 605 00:27:55,801 --> 00:27:59,967 because they're born babies, but very quickly, they're toddlers. 606 00:27:59,972 --> 00:28:01,348 Where are the twins? 607 00:28:02,432 --> 00:28:03,934 - Mommy? - Daddy? 608 00:28:06,405 --> 00:28:08,241 Wha... Did y... 609 00:28:09,106 --> 00:28:13,647 And then, very quickly, they are, 610 00:28:13,652 --> 00:28:15,816 you know, sort of ten years old. 611 00:28:15,821 --> 00:28:18,525 We don't think you'll be old enough 612 00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:22,072 to properly care for an animal until you're at least... 613 00:28:22,077 --> 00:28:23,078 Ten. 614 00:28:24,264 --> 00:28:26,307 Ten years old. 615 00:28:26,832 --> 00:28:28,166 Look at each other. 616 00:28:30,043 --> 00:28:33,375 - Well, now, hang on there a minute... - Wait, no, no, no. 617 00:28:33,380 --> 00:28:35,919 - ... you young whippersnappers. - No, no, no! 618 00:28:37,434 --> 00:28:40,179 Let's just hope this dog stays the same size. 619 00:28:44,725 --> 00:28:48,590 This is the '80s, yeah. So we designed one basic layout, 620 00:28:48,595 --> 00:28:50,876 and then we've just changed it through the decades. 621 00:28:50,881 --> 00:28:53,605 So, this is still the Dick Van Dyke set, 622 00:28:53,609 --> 00:28:56,106 inspired by Dick Van Dyke kitchen, 623 00:28:56,111 --> 00:28:57,858 but now this is the '80s 624 00:28:57,863 --> 00:29:00,277 inspired by Full House and Family Ties... 625 00:29:00,282 --> 00:29:02,488 Growing Pains, all the shows that we loved from the '80s. 626 00:29:02,492 --> 00:29:03,573 Now, I know 627 00:29:03,577 --> 00:29:05,365 parents aren't supposed to take shortcuts, 628 00:29:05,370 --> 00:29:08,118 but I think this situation calls for one, don't you? 629 00:29:08,123 --> 00:29:10,038 It's funny now when you look back at it, 630 00:29:10,042 --> 00:29:14,416 it's a beloved generation and it's also a self-parodying era as well 631 00:29:14,421 --> 00:29:17,294 because you look at the hair and the clothes and we all wonder, 632 00:29:17,299 --> 00:29:18,921 "We really thought that was cool? 633 00:29:18,926 --> 00:29:21,131 "How did we ever go outside looking that way?" 634 00:29:21,136 --> 00:29:23,133 It's almost like we're on a date. 635 00:29:23,138 --> 00:29:24,635 Almost. 636 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,803 With two really cranky chaperones. 637 00:29:28,101 --> 00:29:32,684 My memories of the '80s, as a '90s child, 638 00:29:32,689 --> 00:29:35,522 is that I still got to wear these beautiful vests 639 00:29:35,526 --> 00:29:37,314 and things like this 640 00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:40,901 and had lots of beautiful hats with big flowers on them. 641 00:29:40,906 --> 00:29:42,027 I just missed it, 642 00:29:42,032 --> 00:29:47,162 but the '80s were a horrible time of style and hair. 643 00:29:47,913 --> 00:29:51,453 But I really actually am partial to this wig, I have to say. 644 00:29:51,458 --> 00:29:52,663 - I'm... - It's fabulous. 645 00:29:52,668 --> 00:29:54,253 I feel like I'm filled with secrets. 646 00:29:56,630 --> 00:29:59,011 At the end of the episode in the '80s, 647 00:29:59,016 --> 00:30:00,754 to Wanda's surprise, 648 00:30:00,759 --> 00:30:02,005 she gets a knock at the door. 649 00:30:02,010 --> 00:30:05,050 It was not something that she consciously did. 650 00:30:05,055 --> 00:30:07,556 And so she's very confused by it. 651 00:30:07,561 --> 00:30:10,734 And the knock on the door is her brother, Pietro. 652 00:30:10,739 --> 00:30:13,445 But he looks different because it's Evan Peters. 653 00:30:13,450 --> 00:30:14,698 - No! Ow! - Get over here! 654 00:30:14,702 --> 00:30:17,241 And the character he plays is like Uncle Jesse. 655 00:30:17,246 --> 00:30:19,064 Come on! 656 00:30:19,069 --> 00:30:23,068 Like, the cool uncle, who's coming in to stir things up. 657 00:30:23,073 --> 00:30:24,653 Right on, little dude! 658 00:30:24,658 --> 00:30:26,196 Chip off the old Maximoff block. 659 00:30:26,201 --> 00:30:27,447 You've got super speed! 660 00:30:27,452 --> 00:30:28,574 - I do? - Yeah! 661 00:30:28,579 --> 00:30:30,617 And that's the trope he uses 662 00:30:30,622 --> 00:30:33,620 as part of his relationship to the sitcom land. 663 00:30:33,625 --> 00:30:35,914 I can't believe what a bad influence you are. 664 00:30:35,919 --> 00:30:37,337 Who beefed in your borscht? 665 00:30:38,297 --> 00:30:40,669 I'm just trying to do my part. Okay? 666 00:30:40,674 --> 00:30:43,089 Come to town unexpectedly, create tension with the brother-in-law, 667 00:30:43,093 --> 00:30:45,716 stir up trouble with the rugrats, and ultimately give you grief. 668 00:30:45,721 --> 00:30:49,024 I mean, that's what you wanted, isn't it? 669 00:30:50,017 --> 00:30:51,597 What happened to your accent? 670 00:30:51,602 --> 00:30:52,878 What happened to yours? 671 00:30:54,104 --> 00:30:56,685 I'm thrilled. I'm such a huge fan of the Marvel Universe. 672 00:30:56,690 --> 00:30:59,062 So, I'm, like... I'm just excited to be here. 673 00:30:59,067 --> 00:31:03,734 It's, like, the character is so funny and meta, 674 00:31:03,739 --> 00:31:05,694 and an interesting way to do it. 675 00:31:05,699 --> 00:31:07,821 When Kevin was telling me about it, I was like, 676 00:31:07,826 --> 00:31:10,866 "Oh, that sounds awesome, and hilarious, and so weird". 677 00:31:10,871 --> 00:31:13,994 Long lost bro get to squeeze his stinkin' sister to death or what? 678 00:31:16,084 --> 00:31:18,170 She recast Pietro? 679 00:31:18,921 --> 00:31:20,209 For the '80s, 680 00:31:20,214 --> 00:31:23,842 we're doing Family Ties, Growing Pains, Who's the Boss. 681 00:31:24,991 --> 00:31:26,021 Who's the popsicle? 682 00:31:26,026 --> 00:31:28,217 And, yeah, that's my era, 683 00:31:28,222 --> 00:31:31,094 so I am very excited for that. And then also, we're having 684 00:31:31,099 --> 00:31:35,933 our theme songs composed by Bobby and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. 685 00:31:35,938 --> 00:31:38,727 ♪ You wander the world with a vision ♪ 686 00:31:38,732 --> 00:31:42,110 ♪ Of what life could be ♪ 687 00:31:43,862 --> 00:31:46,820 ♪ But then the years come and teach you ♪ 688 00:31:46,824 --> 00:31:50,410 ♪ To just wait and see ♪ 689 00:31:51,954 --> 00:31:54,660 Matt's actually a friend of mine from school, from college. 690 00:31:54,665 --> 00:31:56,161 He called and just said, 691 00:31:56,166 --> 00:31:58,914 "Okay, so you know Wanda and Vision from the Avengers. 692 00:31:58,919 --> 00:32:01,959 "This is a crazy idea. It's like sitcoms, 693 00:32:01,964 --> 00:32:04,294 and we go from the '50s, we do the '60s, 694 00:32:04,299 --> 00:32:07,673 and every single episode is a different style 695 00:32:07,678 --> 00:32:09,141 and a different theme song". 696 00:32:09,146 --> 00:32:10,934 - And we were like... - "Sign us up". 697 00:32:10,939 --> 00:32:14,388 "Sign us up. You had us at 'Hello', man. That is amazing". 698 00:32:14,393 --> 00:32:16,807 ♪ Oh ♪ 699 00:32:16,812 --> 00:32:21,645 ♪ A newlywed couple just moved to town ♪ 700 00:32:21,650 --> 00:32:25,148 ♪ A regular husband and wife ♪ 701 00:32:25,153 --> 00:32:30,117 ♪ Who left the big city to find a quiet life ♪ 702 00:32:30,701 --> 00:32:33,954 ♪ WandaVision! ♪ 703 00:32:37,249 --> 00:32:39,680 But we decided, since everything was so disparate, 704 00:32:39,685 --> 00:32:42,040 there's gonna be a '50s song and a '60s song, 705 00:32:42,045 --> 00:32:44,751 and they would all have the word "WandaVision" in them... 706 00:32:44,756 --> 00:32:46,758 ♪ WandaVision! ♪ 707 00:32:47,676 --> 00:32:48,886 ♪ WandaVision! ♪ 708 00:32:49,928 --> 00:32:53,010 ... that we decided to make a WandaVision motif 709 00:32:53,015 --> 00:32:55,429 that would be able to be used in a different way. 710 00:32:55,434 --> 00:32:57,431 I played them through for Kristen, 711 00:32:57,436 --> 00:32:58,974 but the first one was this. 712 00:33:00,939 --> 00:33:02,311 She was like, "That's the one". 713 00:33:02,316 --> 00:33:03,516 "That's it". 714 00:33:04,026 --> 00:33:06,064 It could be the '50s, where it's like... 715 00:33:10,282 --> 00:33:13,238 Or, um, you know, the '60s one, which is, um... 716 00:33:19,987 --> 00:33:21,613 And the '80s one, which is... 717 00:33:25,714 --> 00:33:29,588 The fun became finding a way to hide that musical signature 718 00:33:29,593 --> 00:33:30,797 somewhere in each song. 719 00:33:30,802 --> 00:33:36,011 ♪ WandaVision! ♪ 720 00:33:36,016 --> 00:33:38,521 You look at the period, the influences of the period, 721 00:33:38,526 --> 00:33:40,350 and the instrumentation of the period, 722 00:33:40,354 --> 00:33:42,226 and the language of the period. 723 00:33:42,231 --> 00:33:45,145 We talked a lot with Matt and Jac about our favorites. 724 00:33:45,150 --> 00:33:47,189 The things that we were all drawn to 725 00:33:47,194 --> 00:33:51,109 became the things that we tried to emulate the most. 726 00:33:51,114 --> 00:33:54,404 We often talked to them before we hit each decade, 727 00:33:54,409 --> 00:33:55,681 at least for a half hour. 728 00:33:55,686 --> 00:33:58,367 So, you know, we would... 729 00:33:58,372 --> 00:34:02,329 Maybe we did the '50s and the '60s on the same call, 730 00:34:02,334 --> 00:34:04,706 and said, "Well, we know what the '50s is. 731 00:34:04,711 --> 00:34:06,672 "'60s, let's talk about it". Um... 732 00:34:07,662 --> 00:34:11,088 And, you know, all agreed that Bewitched in particular, 733 00:34:11,093 --> 00:34:13,590 um, was a big thing. 734 00:34:13,595 --> 00:34:16,166 But we also looked at James Bond movies, 735 00:34:16,170 --> 00:34:17,678 we looked at Burt Bacharach... 736 00:34:17,683 --> 00:34:20,347 - We looked at, um... - Mahna Mahna. 737 00:34:20,352 --> 00:34:24,226 ... what was going on in the pop culture of that time, 738 00:34:24,231 --> 00:34:26,879 and made sure that we were really referencing 739 00:34:26,884 --> 00:34:30,382 sort of that bebop jazz, the cool jazz that was there. 740 00:34:30,387 --> 00:34:35,095 And also, just that Swinging Sixties culture of the time. 741 00:34:35,100 --> 00:34:37,519 ♪ WandaVision Wa-WandaVision ♪ 742 00:34:38,495 --> 00:34:40,205 ♪ WandaVision ♪ 743 00:34:43,041 --> 00:34:44,413 ♪ WandaVision ♪ 744 00:34:44,418 --> 00:34:46,452 The '70s has a touch of tambourine. 745 00:34:46,457 --> 00:34:47,457 Oh, for sure. 746 00:34:47,462 --> 00:34:50,210 Because we were referencing 747 00:34:50,215 --> 00:34:52,546 The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family, 748 00:34:52,551 --> 00:34:57,301 and any family jam band that dresses up in fringe outfits 749 00:34:57,306 --> 00:34:59,845 and travels in a groovy van to their next gig. 750 00:34:59,850 --> 00:35:01,722 ♪ But it's groovy and fun ♪ 751 00:35:01,727 --> 00:35:04,933 ♪ It's me and it's you ♪ 752 00:35:04,938 --> 00:35:06,977 Kristen and I have always loved songs that go... 753 00:35:11,195 --> 00:35:12,362 ♪ WandaVision ♪ 754 00:35:14,489 --> 00:35:16,028 ♪ WandaVision ♪ 755 00:35:16,033 --> 00:35:19,323 ♪ One plus one is family ♪ 756 00:35:19,328 --> 00:35:21,455 ♪ WandaVision ♪ 757 00:35:22,748 --> 00:35:26,038 The '80s... I mean, in particular, the '80s 758 00:35:26,043 --> 00:35:28,123 is where we're all from, where we grew up in. 759 00:35:28,128 --> 00:35:29,634 After school, that's where we'd go home 760 00:35:29,638 --> 00:35:32,461 and watch Diff'rent Strokes and Punky Brewster, and... 761 00:35:32,466 --> 00:35:34,296 Right. I mean, our whole family life 762 00:35:34,301 --> 00:35:39,218 was scheduled around Family Ties coming on, or Growing Pains. 763 00:35:39,223 --> 00:35:43,305 The one that they've done for the '80s is by far my favorite. 764 00:35:43,310 --> 00:35:44,598 I sing it all the time. 765 00:35:44,603 --> 00:35:48,477 ♪ Crossing our fingers, singing a song ♪ 766 00:35:48,482 --> 00:35:52,194 ♪ We're making it up as we go along ♪ 767 00:35:54,196 --> 00:35:56,568 Oh, and then, with the aughts. 768 00:35:56,573 --> 00:35:59,446 ♪ Wanda Wanda Vision ♪ 769 00:35:59,451 --> 00:36:02,491 We got to have this wonderful collaboration 770 00:36:02,496 --> 00:36:04,618 with the original riot grrrl... 771 00:36:04,623 --> 00:36:07,621 Kathleen Hanna, the lead singer of Bikini Kill. 772 00:36:07,626 --> 00:36:11,208 And just gives it this wonderful authenticity, punk authenticity. 773 00:36:11,213 --> 00:36:13,210 ♪ Easy come and easy go ♪ 774 00:36:13,215 --> 00:36:16,171 ♪ But if it's all illusion ♪ 775 00:36:16,176 --> 00:36:19,221 ♪ Sit back, and enjoy the show ♪ 776 00:36:19,601 --> 00:36:23,433 We got to play in a totally different kind of playground, 777 00:36:23,438 --> 00:36:25,977 with a completely new set of references, 778 00:36:25,982 --> 00:36:28,621 and show off other things that we could do. 779 00:36:28,626 --> 00:36:30,658 And we got to write things that really didn't have to 780 00:36:30,662 --> 00:36:33,877 carry a whole lot of story weight, just had to set tone. 781 00:36:33,882 --> 00:36:36,921 I think it's a tone unlike anything I've ever seen. 782 00:36:36,926 --> 00:36:39,674 It's fun, it's funny, 783 00:36:39,679 --> 00:36:42,949 it's nostalgic, and it's creepy. 784 00:36:48,109 --> 00:36:51,123 To jump off the genre blending, 785 00:36:51,128 --> 00:36:54,543 even in the '50s and '60s episodes, 786 00:36:54,548 --> 00:36:57,087 we have moments of Twilight Zone. 787 00:36:57,092 --> 00:37:01,175 And instead of it being moments of today's horror, 788 00:37:01,180 --> 00:37:04,262 we take camera tricks from Twilight Zone 789 00:37:04,266 --> 00:37:06,105 to make you feel off-kilter. 790 00:37:06,110 --> 00:37:09,933 So, in order to get to that cinematic feeling 791 00:37:09,938 --> 00:37:14,738 or sense of something being off in each... 792 00:37:14,743 --> 00:37:16,232 'Cause something has to go wrong 793 00:37:16,236 --> 00:37:18,291 in order to advance to the next decade, 794 00:37:18,296 --> 00:37:19,902 or else why are you changing 795 00:37:19,906 --> 00:37:22,654 the scenario or the given circumstances? 796 00:37:22,659 --> 00:37:26,617 And so we used Twilight Zone tropes for that. 797 00:37:26,622 --> 00:37:30,078 And then, for something like once we get to the Halloween episode, 798 00:37:30,083 --> 00:37:32,539 we're in this idyllic town, it's Halloween, 799 00:37:32,544 --> 00:37:34,500 it's like the perfect type of Halloween. 800 00:37:34,505 --> 00:37:38,045 Truly the most charming costumes I've seen on extras ever. 801 00:37:38,050 --> 00:37:40,088 It was very, very cute. 802 00:37:40,093 --> 00:37:43,800 And kids are wreaking havoc, and it's just perfect. 803 00:37:43,805 --> 00:37:46,995 Somebody better be bleeding, broken, or on fire. 804 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,890 It was so fun to get to be 805 00:37:48,894 --> 00:37:51,642 in these old costumes of the characters. 806 00:37:51,647 --> 00:37:53,644 Why do you... look different? 807 00:37:53,649 --> 00:37:56,630 In Age of Ultron, everyone referenced 808 00:37:56,635 --> 00:37:58,857 certain comic books for me to focus on, 809 00:37:58,862 --> 00:38:01,735 and told me, "Don't pay attention to what she's wearing. 810 00:38:01,740 --> 00:38:03,488 You're not gonna be in a leotard, tights 811 00:38:03,492 --> 00:38:05,280 and a crown on your head. I swear". 812 00:38:05,285 --> 00:38:07,407 And I was like, "Oh, thank God". 813 00:38:07,412 --> 00:38:09,743 And now, the way we incorporated 814 00:38:09,748 --> 00:38:14,832 the retro costume of the Scarlet Witch on Halloween, 815 00:38:14,837 --> 00:38:17,125 it gave me so much joy. 816 00:38:17,130 --> 00:38:21,213 Like, if you were to ask me seven years ago to wear that, 817 00:38:21,218 --> 00:38:23,131 even if it were ironically, 818 00:38:23,136 --> 00:38:25,592 I would be like, "Oh, really?" 819 00:38:25,597 --> 00:38:29,179 But now that I've so much love for the fandom 820 00:38:29,184 --> 00:38:31,557 and so much love for the comics, 821 00:38:31,562 --> 00:38:33,851 it's so fun to be in that costume. 822 00:38:33,856 --> 00:38:36,270 I love you. I'm sorry. 823 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:45,904 And seeing Paul dressed like a wrestler, 824 00:38:45,909 --> 00:38:50,868 he, it's just the whole... It's just he's... It's so funny. 825 00:38:50,873 --> 00:38:54,746 Thank you for humoring me and wearing this ridiculous get-up, honey. 826 00:38:54,751 --> 00:38:56,753 There were no other clothes in my closet, so... 827 00:38:57,838 --> 00:39:01,300 I get to disguise myself as the Vision, 828 00:39:02,134 --> 00:39:04,882 but the Vision from the comic books. 829 00:39:04,887 --> 00:39:07,759 And it was my favorite costume 830 00:39:07,764 --> 00:39:12,306 'cause it was so humiliating and funny 831 00:39:12,311 --> 00:39:18,270 and I had a pair of shorts pulled very high up around my waist, 832 00:39:18,275 --> 00:39:21,732 and yellow Converse to be my super-shoes. 833 00:39:21,737 --> 00:39:24,818 When Vision goes out further 834 00:39:24,823 --> 00:39:27,029 to where we call "Ellis Avenue", 835 00:39:27,034 --> 00:39:28,906 um, I always told the kids... 836 00:39:28,911 --> 00:39:31,491 Don't go past Ellis Avenue. 837 00:39:31,496 --> 00:39:33,076 We know, Mom. We know. 838 00:39:33,081 --> 00:39:34,620 That's the end of the Hex. 839 00:39:34,625 --> 00:39:37,247 And so, the closer you get to the end of the Hex, 840 00:39:37,252 --> 00:39:40,334 the less control Wanda has of the actual town, 841 00:39:40,339 --> 00:39:46,011 and people are just doing things by rote. 842 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,764 People are having these repetitive things, 843 00:39:53,769 --> 00:39:55,499 or hanging up Halloween decorations, 844 00:39:55,504 --> 00:39:57,476 and taking it down, and doing it again. 845 00:39:57,481 --> 00:40:00,938 And characters that you realize 846 00:40:00,943 --> 00:40:05,025 are just less well drawn by Wanda. 847 00:40:05,030 --> 00:40:06,610 And then he gets further out, 848 00:40:06,615 --> 00:40:09,404 and he finds children trick-or-treating, 849 00:40:09,409 --> 00:40:13,408 but they're just absolutely frozen still. 850 00:40:13,413 --> 00:40:14,623 Are those your children? 851 00:40:17,307 --> 00:40:18,934 Are you waiting for something? 852 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,799 And that leads to the denouement of the whole show. 853 00:40:28,804 --> 00:40:30,593 It's so much fun to have gone through 854 00:40:30,597 --> 00:40:33,512 all of these multi-camera sitcom stuff. 855 00:40:33,517 --> 00:40:36,557 You're shooting in a very familiar way, right? 856 00:40:36,562 --> 00:40:38,183 Very static cameras. 857 00:40:38,188 --> 00:40:41,570 And then suddenly, when you cut to an angle that shouldn't be there 858 00:40:41,575 --> 00:40:43,981 or a camera move that would never... 859 00:40:43,986 --> 00:40:46,900 It really, you really feel it when you're watching it, 860 00:40:46,905 --> 00:40:49,778 so it's a great storytelling tool. And then, of course, 861 00:40:49,783 --> 00:40:52,614 in the end, everything kind of breaks down and becomes, 862 00:40:52,619 --> 00:40:57,791 "We're in the real world, in an MCU version of the real world". 863 00:41:00,294 --> 00:41:01,753 - Am I dead? - No. 864 00:41:02,546 --> 00:41:04,998 - Why would you think that? - Because you are. 865 00:41:10,483 --> 00:41:12,516 We are standing at the very front 866 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,178 of what we call "the pop-up base", 867 00:41:14,183 --> 00:41:18,390 which is our military base set up by S.W.O.R.D. 868 00:41:18,395 --> 00:41:19,892 to investigate the anomaly 869 00:41:19,896 --> 00:41:22,357 that Wanda has set up here in Westview. 870 00:41:23,734 --> 00:41:25,647 So that's what this building is about, 871 00:41:25,652 --> 00:41:27,024 a temporary structure 872 00:41:27,029 --> 00:41:30,699 from which to observe and deal with this problem. 873 00:41:35,172 --> 00:41:36,376 We're in the Marvel world, 874 00:41:36,381 --> 00:41:38,215 so in many ways, you'd expect we would 875 00:41:38,219 --> 00:41:40,455 start with something a bit more stylized 876 00:41:40,460 --> 00:41:42,831 and, sort of, you know, sci-fi. 877 00:41:42,836 --> 00:41:45,083 But we wanted to make it a little more realistic, 878 00:41:45,088 --> 00:41:46,793 so we started with ideas 879 00:41:46,798 --> 00:41:49,588 of what kind of military response 880 00:41:49,592 --> 00:41:51,590 is there to a disaster, for example, 881 00:41:51,595 --> 00:41:53,675 if it were a chemical attack, 882 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,886 or nuclear attack, or something like that. 883 00:41:55,891 --> 00:41:59,706 And they actually have these response teams called CBRNs, 884 00:41:59,711 --> 00:42:01,141 which go out and deal with 885 00:42:01,146 --> 00:42:04,186 chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats. 886 00:42:04,191 --> 00:42:05,896 So it's sort of inspired by that. 887 00:42:05,901 --> 00:42:08,524 Now, that said, the building behind me 888 00:42:08,528 --> 00:42:10,567 is a complete hybrid, it isn't... 889 00:42:10,572 --> 00:42:14,446 Nothing exists like this in the air force, in the army, or marines. 890 00:42:14,451 --> 00:42:16,282 So, we made up our own version of it 891 00:42:16,286 --> 00:42:18,158 to make it a little more Marvel-like. 892 00:42:18,163 --> 00:42:19,785 What do we have up? 893 00:42:19,790 --> 00:42:23,288 Radar, lidar, sodar, infrared. 894 00:42:23,293 --> 00:42:24,414 Cycle through. 895 00:42:24,419 --> 00:42:26,542 We're inside the pop-up base 896 00:42:26,547 --> 00:42:30,170 monitoring the Hex, which is what Darcy calls 897 00:42:30,175 --> 00:42:35,634 the magical Wanda-world Westview area. 898 00:42:35,639 --> 00:42:40,055 So, this is all different kinds of military 899 00:42:40,060 --> 00:42:43,600 and space-science people, 900 00:42:43,605 --> 00:42:46,603 and then, there's my little desk back there. 901 00:42:46,608 --> 00:42:48,605 They gave her like her own little corner, 902 00:42:48,610 --> 00:42:54,278 um, where she's basically cracked the "the magic". 903 00:42:54,283 --> 00:42:56,324 So, you're saying the universe created 904 00:42:56,328 --> 00:42:58,495 a sitcom starring two Avengers? 905 00:43:00,038 --> 00:43:01,660 It's a working theory. 906 00:43:01,665 --> 00:43:04,204 Darcy discovers that there's 907 00:43:04,209 --> 00:43:08,484 basically an old television signal emanating from the Hex, 908 00:43:08,489 --> 00:43:09,693 from the anomaly. 909 00:43:09,698 --> 00:43:11,841 And she goes, and she grabs an old TV 910 00:43:11,845 --> 00:43:13,739 with a piece of rabbit ears on it, 911 00:43:13,744 --> 00:43:15,007 and she picks up the TV show 912 00:43:15,011 --> 00:43:17,034 that Wanda's broadcasting out from the Hex. 913 00:43:17,039 --> 00:43:20,054 So, what we do is, in each period 914 00:43:20,058 --> 00:43:23,888 that Wanda iterates within the Hex, 915 00:43:23,893 --> 00:43:25,976 we bring in those period TVs. 916 00:43:25,981 --> 00:43:29,860 So you see late '50s, '60s, '70s, and so on. 917 00:43:30,652 --> 00:43:32,858 Everything might look fake in the TV, 918 00:43:32,862 --> 00:43:34,610 but everything in there is real. 919 00:43:34,615 --> 00:43:36,287 What's fun is just the contrast. 920 00:43:36,291 --> 00:43:39,031 We started in this very, sort of, light sitcom world, 921 00:43:39,036 --> 00:43:41,834 which I had never designed before, so that was fun. 922 00:43:41,839 --> 00:43:45,546 But then, to then dive right into, sort of, 923 00:43:45,551 --> 00:43:48,916 straight-ahead MCU style, 924 00:43:48,921 --> 00:43:51,335 visual style, acting style, script, and all that, 925 00:43:51,340 --> 00:43:54,296 just is delightful after all of that, in a way, 926 00:43:54,301 --> 00:43:57,174 just because, you know, "Is this all in the same movie?" It is. 927 00:43:57,179 --> 00:44:00,010 Which is great, but just the design challenges 928 00:44:00,015 --> 00:44:03,310 of having to go from that to this, that's really fun. 929 00:44:06,063 --> 00:44:10,270 We're at the town square which is in Hollywood, 930 00:44:10,275 --> 00:44:14,107 so basically, we see that in six periods pretty extensively. 931 00:44:14,112 --> 00:44:17,069 So much of it is a design challenge to get all of that right, 932 00:44:17,074 --> 00:44:20,155 to, sort of, express the period, it's sort of unprecedented. 933 00:44:23,392 --> 00:44:26,223 Part of the challenge is that we don't have a shooting schedule 934 00:44:26,228 --> 00:44:29,012 that allows us to shoot for two days, go away for two days, 935 00:44:29,017 --> 00:44:31,416 turn it around, repaint, come back. 936 00:44:31,421 --> 00:44:33,752 We're literally doing overnight changeovers. 937 00:44:33,757 --> 00:44:36,463 Which means that we have to basically define 938 00:44:36,467 --> 00:44:38,090 all of the design changes, 939 00:44:38,095 --> 00:44:39,883 all the pieces you're gonna bring in, 940 00:44:39,888 --> 00:44:42,811 design them, build them, paint them, prefit them probably, 941 00:44:42,816 --> 00:44:44,563 so you know exactly what you're doing, 942 00:44:44,568 --> 00:44:48,275 and everything comes in almost like LEGO in a certain way. 943 00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,769 All these parts come in and go up very quickly, 944 00:44:50,774 --> 00:44:53,455 'cause you've only got, maybe, 12 hours 945 00:44:53,459 --> 00:44:55,604 to complete this turnaround. 946 00:44:57,114 --> 00:44:58,949 "For the children!" 947 00:45:16,675 --> 00:45:19,636 The experience of doing the finale 948 00:45:20,262 --> 00:45:23,510 when Wanda, she has to run through town square, 949 00:45:23,515 --> 00:45:26,143 and she's looking for Agnes, or Agatha, 950 00:45:27,019 --> 00:45:30,809 and all of the people in the town start to wake up, 951 00:45:30,814 --> 00:45:34,193 and surround her, and crowd her almost, 952 00:45:35,194 --> 00:45:37,024 like, begging her to let them go. 953 00:45:37,029 --> 00:45:40,402 I can't take this anymore, Wanda, please. 954 00:45:40,407 --> 00:45:41,408 Please! 955 00:45:47,372 --> 00:45:51,497 It was a very long sequence. It had quite a climax. 956 00:45:51,502 --> 00:45:54,187 I mean, who is the boss here, Wanda? 957 00:45:55,422 --> 00:45:57,508 Heroes don't torture people. 958 00:45:58,175 --> 00:46:00,496 Getting to do a wide like that, 959 00:46:00,500 --> 00:46:02,508 it feels like a piece of theater. 960 00:46:02,513 --> 00:46:06,929 It felt really satisfying to do emotionally, I think. 961 00:46:06,934 --> 00:46:08,697 And it just felt epic, like the... 962 00:46:08,702 --> 00:46:10,487 There's some moments when these movies 963 00:46:10,491 --> 00:46:13,227 just feel like so cinematic on the day, 964 00:46:13,232 --> 00:46:16,146 and that just felt really grand. 965 00:46:18,237 --> 00:46:22,110 Go, now, all of you. Go! 966 00:46:22,115 --> 00:46:23,909 Run! 967 00:46:27,079 --> 00:46:29,076 What's so special about this script 968 00:46:29,081 --> 00:46:32,216 is that you don't actually know what is coming from where, 969 00:46:32,221 --> 00:46:34,306 and who is actually the bad person, 970 00:46:34,962 --> 00:46:37,167 and when someone has ulterior motives, 971 00:46:37,172 --> 00:46:39,294 and what's actually happening. 972 00:46:39,299 --> 00:46:42,631 So, sometimes you feel like, 973 00:46:42,636 --> 00:46:45,050 "Well, Wanda is the bad... She's the villain. 974 00:46:45,055 --> 00:46:49,096 She has turned all of these people's lives upside down. 975 00:46:49,101 --> 00:46:50,456 She's the villain". 976 00:46:50,461 --> 00:46:55,424 Then, you find out that, well, Agnes is pretty terrible. 977 00:46:56,316 --> 00:47:01,191 She's got her own thing that she's been brewing the entire time, 978 00:47:01,196 --> 00:47:06,029 and kinda counteracting, counter-magicking Wanda. 979 00:47:06,034 --> 00:47:09,997 And then you have, um, Hayward, 980 00:47:10,873 --> 00:47:15,539 he's pretty not a very good person. 981 00:47:15,544 --> 00:47:19,418 And he's got his own agenda that's throwing... 982 00:47:19,423 --> 00:47:21,670 Everyone has their own agenda, 983 00:47:21,675 --> 00:47:23,939 and what's great is that at some point, 984 00:47:23,944 --> 00:47:26,552 you see it all clash and blow up 985 00:47:26,557 --> 00:47:29,819 into an epic superhero fight, might I say. 986 00:47:31,384 --> 00:47:34,591 Last one to town square is a walking pair of mom jeans. 987 00:47:34,596 --> 00:47:36,518 ... burden! 988 00:47:37,858 --> 00:47:40,522 Usually, I'm like one of the only flyers. 989 00:47:40,527 --> 00:47:43,192 Like, I'm the only one on wires often. 990 00:47:43,197 --> 00:47:46,945 That is something I do a lot in these films. 991 00:47:49,745 --> 00:47:51,783 I mean, it looks like a blast. 992 00:47:51,788 --> 00:47:54,912 And so, I feel like it's the first time 993 00:47:54,917 --> 00:48:00,501 Marvel has had to accommodate for so many flying sequences. 994 00:48:00,506 --> 00:48:03,462 And it was a real challenge... 995 00:48:03,467 --> 00:48:05,631 I mean, Kathryn's in a ridiculous costume 996 00:48:05,636 --> 00:48:09,134 that is very uncomfortable to harness and fly in. 997 00:48:09,139 --> 00:48:14,264 But we all just, like, we're always harnessed 998 00:48:14,269 --> 00:48:16,063 like, for the last six weeks. 999 00:48:16,647 --> 00:48:20,896 We've been harnessed quite a bit, and it was so fun. 1000 00:48:20,901 --> 00:48:22,606 It was... I love flying. 1001 00:48:22,611 --> 00:48:26,443 I love doing all the flying work, I really, truly enjoy it so much. 1002 00:48:26,448 --> 00:48:29,071 But we... I think it's the first time 1003 00:48:29,076 --> 00:48:31,198 I think Marvel's really had to create 1004 00:48:31,202 --> 00:48:33,033 a full fight sequence in the air. 1005 00:48:40,796 --> 00:48:42,548 I think my most gratifying was 1006 00:48:43,590 --> 00:48:46,421 when I finally put on Agatha's hero look 1007 00:48:46,426 --> 00:48:51,552 and was able to be raised up in those wires for the first time. 1008 00:48:51,557 --> 00:48:54,046 - You look amazing. - You look amazing. 1009 00:48:54,051 --> 00:48:56,265 And feel those huge fans on me, 1010 00:48:56,270 --> 00:48:57,626 even though it was like a hundred 1011 00:48:57,630 --> 00:48:59,184 and something degrees outside. 1012 00:48:59,189 --> 00:49:03,021 It was like crazy just to feel all the work of all these people 1013 00:49:03,026 --> 00:49:07,526 that had gone into collaborating, into helping make her. 1014 00:49:07,531 --> 00:49:09,783 You're supposed to be a myth. 1015 00:49:10,909 --> 00:49:15,367 A being capable of spontaneous creation, 1016 00:49:15,372 --> 00:49:20,914 and here you are, using it to make breakfast for dinner! 1017 00:49:20,919 --> 00:49:22,471 To play the good and the bad, 1018 00:49:22,475 --> 00:49:25,752 to play the wicked and the playful, 1019 00:49:25,757 --> 00:49:29,131 and to play a villain that's also funny, 1020 00:49:29,136 --> 00:49:30,924 it's the best. 1021 00:49:30,929 --> 00:49:33,260 There's more. I want it all. 1022 00:49:33,265 --> 00:49:35,012 When you're on these big films, 1023 00:49:35,016 --> 00:49:36,547 and you get all those pieces moving 1024 00:49:36,552 --> 00:49:40,601 that are in the world's control, it feels really special. 1025 00:49:40,606 --> 00:49:41,940 Thanks for the lesson... 1026 00:49:44,573 --> 00:49:50,596 but I don't need you to tell me who I am. 1027 00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:57,201 The features, as you know, set a very high bar for the look, 1028 00:49:57,206 --> 00:50:01,121 and for the effects to supplement the story, 1029 00:50:01,125 --> 00:50:02,831 not overwhelm the story. 1030 00:50:02,836 --> 00:50:06,135 That same mandate for the features 1031 00:50:06,140 --> 00:50:07,711 was absolutely what they were wanting 1032 00:50:07,715 --> 00:50:10,130 to achieve for the streaming service. 1033 00:50:10,135 --> 00:50:13,383 Vision himself, he's a digital prosthetic. 1034 00:50:13,388 --> 00:50:15,177 Poor Paul, we paint him purple, 1035 00:50:15,182 --> 00:50:16,895 and he has to go through the day like that. 1036 00:50:16,900 --> 00:50:20,349 But otherwise, all the rest of that is a digital effect. 1037 00:50:20,354 --> 00:50:25,303 Every time Vision's synthezoid, that he's got a CG face, 1038 00:50:25,308 --> 00:50:29,066 so we would go back to Matt and say, 1039 00:50:29,071 --> 00:50:30,734 "Do you know, for this beat, 1040 00:50:30,739 --> 00:50:34,012 does he really need to be synthezoid? Could he be human?" 1041 00:50:34,017 --> 00:50:36,515 And Matt and Jac would often come back with, 1042 00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,267 "Well, he's his true self. 1043 00:50:38,272 --> 00:50:39,936 You know, when he's in his home, 1044 00:50:39,940 --> 00:50:42,454 we want specific beats to be synthezoid 1045 00:50:42,459 --> 00:50:44,049 even though they're visual effect shots, 1046 00:50:44,053 --> 00:50:47,125 just because it's who he is when he's at home with Wanda". 1047 00:50:47,130 --> 00:50:51,171 So, we let the story determine when we'd use the visual effects. 1048 00:50:51,176 --> 00:50:54,550 So when we translated Red Vision into black and white, 1049 00:50:54,555 --> 00:50:56,034 he didn't really look like Vision. 1050 00:50:56,039 --> 00:50:59,371 We did tests using footage from the previous films 1051 00:50:59,376 --> 00:51:01,665 as my first week on the job. 1052 00:51:01,670 --> 00:51:03,815 We knocked on a colorist's door and said, 1053 00:51:03,819 --> 00:51:05,466 "Can we come and see what he looks like?" 1054 00:51:05,471 --> 00:51:07,771 And we quickly realized he would have to be blue. 1055 00:51:07,776 --> 00:51:09,063 During the '50s and '60s, 1056 00:51:09,067 --> 00:51:11,400 actresses would actually use blue makeup, 1057 00:51:11,405 --> 00:51:13,360 blue lipstick so their lips would appear red. 1058 00:51:13,365 --> 00:51:16,154 And lo and behold, we did the same with Paul, 1059 00:51:16,159 --> 00:51:19,283 found the right, uh, shade of blue during some camera tests, 1060 00:51:19,288 --> 00:51:21,512 did a little additional tweaking in the DI 1061 00:51:21,516 --> 00:51:23,125 and found a really good target. 1062 00:51:28,109 --> 00:51:32,525 What we got to was a place where we really keep the performance. 1063 00:51:32,530 --> 00:51:34,235 Paul is Vision, 1064 00:51:34,240 --> 00:51:37,822 and so what we end up doing is kind of painting out his ears, 1065 00:51:37,827 --> 00:51:41,342 and augmenting and tracking CG onto his body, 1066 00:51:41,347 --> 00:51:42,473 but that's him. 1067 00:51:48,145 --> 00:51:51,560 Wanda's world is her safe haven, 1068 00:51:51,565 --> 00:51:56,533 so when the Hex takes over the military base, 1069 00:51:57,159 --> 00:52:00,449 it turns into a happy thing, into a... 1070 00:52:00,454 --> 00:52:04,044 a kind of absurd thing almost, which is the circus, which is fun. 1071 00:52:04,049 --> 00:52:06,855 For visual effects, it wasn't necessarily a complicated thing. 1072 00:52:06,860 --> 00:52:08,912 You shoot the A side, then you shoot the B side, 1073 00:52:09,296 --> 00:52:11,089 and then you augment each. 1074 00:52:14,718 --> 00:52:18,717 We knew that the Hex had to be a boundary 1075 00:52:18,722 --> 00:52:22,262 that kept the townspeople in, 1076 00:52:22,267 --> 00:52:25,766 but that was mysterious to the people on the outside. 1077 00:52:25,771 --> 00:52:28,519 We decided early that it would be more mysterious 1078 00:52:28,524 --> 00:52:30,521 if it was an invisible Hex. 1079 00:52:30,526 --> 00:52:33,022 And so it helped build tension 1080 00:52:33,026 --> 00:52:35,609 and we got to make it look quite cool. 1081 00:52:35,614 --> 00:52:41,156 We looked at all different manners of film boundaries in the past 1082 00:52:41,161 --> 00:52:43,659 and decided that we wanted our Hex 1083 00:52:43,663 --> 00:52:45,332 to have the language of television. 1084 00:52:47,209 --> 00:52:53,126 So, we studied how magnets were drawn on old CRT televisions 1085 00:52:53,131 --> 00:52:56,196 and the magnetization you would get across the screen, 1086 00:52:56,201 --> 00:52:57,785 the pixelization you would get 1087 00:52:57,789 --> 00:52:59,905 when you zoomed way into an old TV. 1088 00:53:00,305 --> 00:53:03,136 The cathodic lines or those skinny lines that you would see 1089 00:53:03,141 --> 00:53:05,931 in NTSC old, square TVs. 1090 00:53:05,936 --> 00:53:08,475 And so we went to photography, 1091 00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,811 and we found our favorite images 1092 00:53:10,815 --> 00:53:12,688 for what this boundary could be, 1093 00:53:12,693 --> 00:53:14,486 using the language of television. 1094 00:53:16,321 --> 00:53:20,612 Westview was meant to be Wanda's idyllic town, 1095 00:53:20,617 --> 00:53:22,531 so that was a touchstone. 1096 00:53:22,536 --> 00:53:25,138 Everything about Wanda's home inside, 1097 00:53:25,142 --> 00:53:27,160 outside, and the town they live in, 1098 00:53:27,165 --> 00:53:32,124 came from this concept that she recreated the reality she wanted 1099 00:53:32,129 --> 00:53:34,715 from her childhood, from those television shows. 1100 00:53:35,757 --> 00:53:38,630 Really, it's executing a vision 1101 00:53:38,634 --> 00:53:40,704 to the standard that Wanda would have wanted. 1102 00:53:51,615 --> 00:53:55,022 As far as TV goes, there is an argument that 1103 00:53:55,027 --> 00:53:59,401 Avengers and the Marvel MCU 1104 00:53:59,406 --> 00:54:04,740 is the largest episodic experiment ever, right? 1105 00:54:04,745 --> 00:54:07,592 Because it's like these shows 1106 00:54:07,596 --> 00:54:09,494 that then have spin-offs that are interconnected 1107 00:54:09,499 --> 00:54:12,414 and then different... Until we culminate. 1108 00:54:12,419 --> 00:54:13,670 Spirits lifted. 1109 00:54:14,129 --> 00:54:17,294 It has always been episodic storytelling, 1110 00:54:17,299 --> 00:54:20,631 so that didn't feel that different for me. 1111 00:54:20,636 --> 00:54:24,259 What feels different is the focus on Wanda and Vision, 1112 00:54:24,264 --> 00:54:26,303 which is really nice after all this time. 1113 00:54:26,308 --> 00:54:29,515 I think the beauty of what Jac Schaeffer, 1114 00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:33,560 and Mary Livanos, Matt, and Feige put together 1115 00:54:33,565 --> 00:54:38,232 was a story that can only be told in the medium of television. 1116 00:54:38,237 --> 00:54:41,860 And the way we're telling it is a complete conversation 1117 00:54:41,865 --> 00:54:43,487 of American sitcom 1118 00:54:43,491 --> 00:54:46,121 hitting against the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 1119 00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:52,738 For Marvel to take the opportunity to do a television show, 1120 00:54:52,743 --> 00:54:55,540 and for the first show to come out to be an actual love song 1121 00:54:55,544 --> 00:54:57,543 to American sitcoms, 1122 00:54:57,548 --> 00:55:03,095 is so perfect, and it's so perfect for Wanda's character. 1123 00:55:05,556 --> 00:55:09,596 Dick Van Dyke again? Always "sitcom, sitcom, sitcom..." 1124 00:55:09,601 --> 00:55:12,307 The thing that I really loved at the end of the journey 1125 00:55:12,312 --> 00:55:13,934 is, I think it's the first time 1126 00:55:13,938 --> 00:55:17,271 Wanda has really accepted who she is 1127 00:55:17,276 --> 00:55:20,440 and actually puts to bed so much pain. 1128 00:55:20,445 --> 00:55:25,362 And we find her finally having peace and being okay. 1129 00:55:25,367 --> 00:55:27,072 I can't feel you. 1130 00:55:27,077 --> 00:55:33,495 I'm so excited now that we've cracked open this other part of her, 1131 00:55:33,500 --> 00:55:37,749 so that there hopefully could be more stories to tell. 1132 00:55:37,754 --> 00:55:39,334 It's been such a gift, 1133 00:55:39,338 --> 00:55:43,297 and so I really loved doing this show. 1134 00:55:43,302 --> 00:55:44,590 Cut. 1135 00:55:44,595 --> 00:55:46,597 That is a wrap on Lizzy. 1136 00:55:48,015 --> 00:55:49,428 I've never experienced loss 1137 00:55:49,433 --> 00:55:53,353 because I've never had a loved one to lose. 1138 00:55:55,689 --> 00:55:56,982 But what is grief... 1139 00:55:58,525 --> 00:56:01,570 if not love persevering? 1140 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:07,700 - Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com -