British actress Haley Atwell has spoken about the upcoming “Avengers: Doomsday” and confirmed that the film’s story was still very much being tweaked as they were filming.
If there’s a character that brings heart to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s Atwell’s Peggy Carter. Atwell has played Peggy across various ages and over several films, her own live-action TV series, and in animated form with “What If”.
On an upcoming episode of The Playlist’s Bingeworthy podcast to discuss the new MGM+ series “Treasure Island,” Atwell disccussed the decision to revisit Steve and Peggy’s story in the new “Avengers” film and how the directors and writers were changing things on the fly:
“I think with this [Doomsday], though, there is such meticulous care for delighting the fans that I really feel that the studio knows exactly what it’s doing for the sake of really delighting and satisfying the expectation and going beyond it.
[It] comes out in December. It’s so epic. It’s so extraordinary, the level of ambition and scope that they had for it, that I knew that whatever we were trying – and we tried different things, we shot different things, there were different storylines, some picked up, some developed, some dropped away.
It really is with the intention of finding the thing that makes the most sense for those characters, but also for what role they play in this part of the world.”
Atwell was asked whether she had any reservations about Marvel reopening that chapter, the Peggy & Steve happy ending of ‘Endgame’ seemingly being very short-lived. She indicates that she’s been happy with character work she’s been able to do in some projects, but not all.
That said, she sounds quite happy to return to the role if it’s something fans want and Marvel is willing to do more with the character:
“I’ve said publicly that any time I’ve been asked to come back or speculation of me coming back, of wanting to in some way do something new and evolve her more, and I love the fact that in ‘What If…’ it was an animation, but we saw her doing so much more than I’d gotten to do in a practical sense in the live action. I hope that that’s something that, if the fans want it specifically, that there is a calling for that to happen at some point. I’d be willing to have that conversation for sure.”
Joe and Anthony Russo direct “Avengers: Doomsday” which is slated to open in cinemas on December 18th.
