Megan Thee Stallion She-Hulk Cameo Explained: She’s an MCU Fan

When a Marvel character cameos in one other character’s film, Marvel followers get excited. But when certainly one of music’s greatest superstars does the identical factor? The world will get excited. That’s what occurs on this week’s episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law when Grammy-award profitable rapper and icon Megan Thee Stallion makes a shock look. But the position wasn’t at all times Stallion’s, as a result of the She-Hulk crew by no means even thought it attainable.

In the brand new She-Hulk episode, there’s a storyline a couple of former colleague of Jen who’s suing his ex-girlfriend for fraud. The girlfriend is a shape-shifting Asgardian elf who led the lawyer believed she was Megan Thee Stallion. The rapper seems in a couple of fast clips used as proof, in a single hilarious repay shot, after which in a enjoyable finish credit sequences. (Read our full recap right here.)

“When we wrote the script, all we knew was we needed to have a female celebrity who was very famous, very successful, and very beautiful. But we didn’t know if it was going to be an actress, or a model, or a musician,” head author Jessica Gao advised Entertainment Weekly. “And depending on who it was, we knew we’d probably have to tweak the story a little bit to fit whoever we ended up casting.”

Several names have been thrown round nevertheless it was co-star Jameela Jamil who talked about the music celebrity, for the reason that pair beforehand labored collectively on a present referred to as Legendary. “Jameela one day floated the idea of Megan,” Gao stated. “And the moment she said that, and the moment we realized that that could be a possibility, we were like, ‘Stop everything. That’s it. The conversation’s done. We only care about Megan now. And if Megan will do it, then that settles it.’”

Turns out, getting the rapper wasn’t too tough. She was apparently already an enormous fan of Marvel and superheroes—and earlier than they knew it, Megan Thee Stallion was on the set of She-Hulk. One downside although: She-Hulk herself, Tatiana Maslany, was the musician’s greatest fan and didn’t have a scene along with her. That’s the place the unrelated (however hilarious) end-credit scene got here to be.

“Tatiana really wanted a scene with Megan and we saw how fun that energy would be and how it would be a missed opportunity not to have them on screen together,” director Kat Coiro advised EW. “And we also learned that She-Hulk’s a great twerker, which was a surprise to all of us.”

In truth, the filmmakers knew that dancing with Stallion could be such an enormous deal for the mega fan, they didn’t inform Maslany concerning the scene they’d written till solely two days earlier than filming. “[Gao’s] like, ‘I don’t think we would get any filming done if you were aware that this is what was going to happen,’” Maslany stated. “Because I would pass out. It was a dream. She’s such an amazing person. She’s so game for just playing.”

Will Megan Thee Stallion maintain enjoying within the MCU? It appears unlikely, however her showing in any respect is already that. Check her out within the newest episode of She-Hulk on Disney+.

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