Hey, Kat, how are you?
I love your green light.
It's not bad, is it?
I've got some purple nails.
There you go.
Okay. Bases covered.
All bases covered.
Congratulations on the show.
Thank you so much.
Really enjoyed the first four episodes.
It was.
It was an impossible one not to watch all the way through.
So congratulations on that.
It's a show that's very unique to Marvel is a character
that's very unique to Marvel.
What was the lure for you to jump on board
this character in the show in particular?
I have been a fan of the comic book character since I was a little kid.
She always stood out to me in the pantheon of comic book characters
as this woman who is large and in charge and in control of her own narrative.
And I think the series really honored that essence of the comics, which
was very exciting to me.
I mean, this is a character that is very different
to all the others and in a way, there's so much Marvel content.
This seems like a show
that's coming at the right time that it's going to give kind of a freshness
and a bit of a unique take.
Was that one of the reasons
why you wanted to get involved, that it was a little bit different
and would keep fans on their toes a little bit?
You know, I'm a huge MCU fan, so I was excited to add
something to the MCU.
Can you say MCU universe or is that redundant to the universe?
And the fact that it happens to be a little bit genre bending
and has elements of action and drama
but also has a really heavy comedic bent, was really appealing to me.
But really, the draw is, is the character herself
and how she operates through the world and her reluctance to being a superhero.
And the fact that we get to see mundane aspects of a superhero's life like dating
and going home after a long day and taking your shoes off.
Yeah.
And I mean, there's
lots of kind of different tones going on for you as a as a filmmaker
and storyteller.
Is that a difficult thing, particularly for this, or did you find it
quite not so much a challenge, but quite easy to do?
I think it was absolutely the biggest challenge of the series was balancing
the cinematic grandiosity that people have come to expect from a marvel project
with little intimate moments of banter and humor.
And part of being able to get that is letting actors play.
And when you're dealing with huge technical aspects and CGI,
there's so much preparation
that goes into it that sometimes it's hard to let actors play.
And so that was always at the forefront of my mind
is how do I make it feel big and small at the same time?
Yeah, I just spoke to as a final question.
I just spoke to Jessica Gao and she said, casting Tatiana Maslany,
I almost felt like cheating, but I would say that she was, you know.
But when people ask, were you scared of anything?
It was before we had her, I thought, who the hell are we going to get
to play a character with these two dichotomies?
And as soon as we had her, it was smooth sailing.
Yeah, because he seems perfect.
And it was I know before there was talk
that she was going to do it and wasn't going to do it.
But fans, it seemed to be one of those things
with fans, particularly where you just I mean, who else?
Who else is going to be? There is nobody else. There is. She is She-Hulk.
Yeah, she's pretty good.
She's very, very good. I have to say. I spoke to yesterday.
She's very nice as well.
So it seems like perfect casting that makes your job much easier as well,
doesn't it, by getting someone like her?
Look, you can't you also can't direct chemistry.
And the moment I saw Mark and Tatiana together,
I knew that that episode was going to work because they have such a playfulness
together.
There were even elements from the pilot that were not scripted,
but watching Marc and Tatiana play with each other,
we added the montage of them training because they were just so goofy and fun
and they talked together about this idea of wearing the mocap suits in the camera
in the face, and how it separated them from other actors and from the crew.
But it brought them together.
And so a little bit of, you know,
art imitating life when it came to their relationship.
Yeah, absolutely. Well, it's in the show. Fantastic.
Have you guys really well for you? And thank you so much for your time.
Thanks for that.