- Kathryn, how are you?
- I'm very well. How are you?
- I'm very well, thank you.
I've got some new frames
but they're not quite as good as yours, I don't think.
Yours are much better than mine.
- No, I feel yours are pretty fantastic.
(laughs)
- Well, thank you.
You know, you start the new year as you mean to go on.
- Absolutely!
My vision is going fast. No pun intended!
- Wow, that was very good. I like it.
I liked it very much.
- I didn't mean to! It just slipped out!
- Just slipped out, as it does.
Thank you so much for your time.
Really, really enjoyed the show.
I've only seen the first three
so I'm still in a bit of suspense, which is good.
- Me too. I've just seen the first three as well.
- Yeah, keeps you in suspense.
How was this show kind of pitched to you?
Because I can imagine you got a call from Marvel.
You expect for them and Kevin Feige to tell you,
"Oh, we want you to be part of this big action extravaganza
about the end of the world,"
but they pitched you essentially a sitcom.
What was kind of your reaction
when they pitched you this particular idea?
- Well, I mean, I remember being asked
to go into a meeting with Matt Shakman,
our incredible director,
(kisses)
who I know he's a theater director himself
and I had known him kind of peripherally
through that world from my husband,
Jac Schaeffer, the writer, and Mary Livanos, our producer.
And I went into this like secret room
in the bowels of Marvel.
I say the bowels, but it was really on their first floor.
(laughs)
But for mystery!
But it was- You know and they kind of laid out
this arc and this idea
and it was unlike, like you had said,
anything I had ever seen as a parent
that had watched Marvel movies with
and through her the lens of her children.
It was unlike anything I had ever seen in that world.
And the artisans involved,
I knew were not going to cut corners
and were gonna make it as specific
and real to each genre as possible.
And I also knew that the genres add up to something.
It's not just for the trick of them.
And so...
And I also, as that kind of...
mother watching those movies through her children,
I always remember this little teeny heartbeat
through those movies,
this little teeny heart
which was always that relationship between Vision and Wanda.
It always stuck out to me
in all of that, like, beautiful, glorious,
like, mayhem and huge set pieces.
And yet there was, like, something about
that little domestic scene of them making dinner
that was, like, surprising and so tiny but felt so real
that I was so excited to be able to dive deeper into the two
that that's where Kevin and this group wanted to dig deeper
and to drill bit deeper into.
And so starting there was, I mean,
it was kind of a no-brainer.
And the fact that I got to wear wigs.
(both laugh)
- I was gonna say
what was your kind of favorite time period?
'Cause obviously you go forever.
I've only seen some of it
so I've got up to, like, I think it's this, you know,
no spoilers to say it's pretty much
every single decade is covered.
Did you have a favorite wig,
favorite costume, favorite period?
- I would say just, like, for nostalgia sake
looking back on this process,
it was probably the 50s because we got to wear-
I mean, we shot that in front of a live studio audience.
We used, like, actual period lights in there.
Like, I think even the-
if I'm remembering this correctly-
the audience that was there who were, like, heavily-
you know, had to sign so many things
to not give any spoilers away.
But I think they were even costumed,
you know, in period costumes,
and we rehearsed it like a sitcom, like a play.
So, that and that adrenaline.
Like, it only took two days to shoot that whole ep-
Like, that adrenaline and that feeling and those clothes.
Our incredible costume designer, Mayes [C. Rubeo],
who's just an artist and a goddess,
like, from the inside out
with just enough, like-
Because it was so specific,
it was able to hold such a tension
because we all know there's something coming.
That was, I think- That was my fave.
- Yeah, absolutely.
It was a gas, let's say.
(both laugh)
Yeah. Thank you so much for your time.
Absolute pleasure talking to you.
- A pleasure talking to you. Have a good one.
- Okay, cheers.
- [Narrator] Ladies and gentlemen, you're watching
"HeyUGuys"!
- [Off Camera] "HeyUGuys," huh?
- [Interviewer] "HeyUGuys."
- [Off Camera] Is that from "The Goonies"?
- [Interviewer] It is, indeed, yeah.
- [Group] Hey, you guys!