At one level within the upcoming pilot to Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) sneaks into the lavatory of a scummy bar. She’s been in an accident. She’s bloody, bruised, and 4 girls she doesn’t know stroll in. What occurs subsequent could not appear to be a vital second within the historical past of the Marvel Cinematic Universe however, for head author and govt producer Jessica Gao, it was a essential second for her present.

“That scene was so important to me, and there were so many times it was on the chopping block because a lot of people didn’t understand it,” Gao mentioned throughout a current press convention. “And I was like, ‘This is the single most important scene to me in this entire episode.’”

Why was it so necessary? Because the ladies who Jennifer doesn’t know instantly soar to her support. All they wish to do is assist this girl who they will see has been wronged in a roundabout way. “Truly, the women’s bathroom in any club, bar, strip club, I don’t care, any public women’s bathroom is the most safe, protective, and supportive environment,” Gao continued. “It’s the truth! And women are so often depicted as being catty and bitchy and that can be true outside in the bar, but once you’re in the inner sanctum of the bathroom, these women want to help each other. If you went into a bathroom and said ‘This man was bad to me,’ you would have an entire army of women ready to go and kill him.”

The scene speaks to a bigger purpose of the brand new Marvel present. It’s hoping to point out us a superhero as an actual particular person, one thing the flicks don’t usually allow you to do due to time constraints. “I think the beauty of television is, unlike the movies, we actually have time and space to really, like, sit with a character and learn more about them and really get to know them as a fully fleshed-out person,” Gao mentioned. “And what’s great about Jen Walters/She-Hulk is that [Maslany] was able to immediately, from day one, make this feel like a real human being. You feel like she’s lived a life. She has life experiences. She has relationships. She has a family and she has friends. And also, she changes. She might feel different in the morning than she does in the evening. She might feel different today than she does yesterday. This is a real person who actually feels things and processes things. And, like most people, has highs and lows.”

“It really is a little bit of a peek behind-the-curtain at the everyday, sometimes even mundane life of a superhero, which we do get to experience in this long-form series,” added director and govt producer Kat Coiro. We’ll have rather more on She-Hulk main as much as, and after, its Disney+ premiere on August 18.

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