The Best News All Year
Sep. 18th, 2020 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrasteAnother reason for us all to survive 2020 and its various nonsense: Tatiana Maslany just got cast as She-Hulk!
While I had been hoping for an older actress (she's almost twenty years younger than Ruffalo) she's so amazing that I cannot actually complain. In addition to regularly making me forget she was not a dozen people on Orphan Black, I recently had the delight of watching her be yet another completely different character in the gritty HBO reboot of Perry Mason. (Which I enjoyed a lot, despite it often seeming like it should be a parody of gritty reboots.)
Jennifer Walters is one of my favourite Marvel characters that the MCU has still to take on, so I'm over the moon to know they're moving forward with such a great actor. Because the internet is the internet, I am already seeing people complain that she's too short, which seems to be missing the point a bit. Mark Ruffalo is also not eight feet tall and green! The physical contrast between forms seems like it's part of the deal for Hulks.
Now I just need to keep my fingers crossed for Marc Spector and company getting equally good casting. (I am not very worried about Kamala, since 'adorably geeky and earnest teen girl who loves superheroes and wants to use her superpowers to defend New Jersey' does not seem like a particularly difficult casting brief.)
While I had been hoping for an older actress (she's almost twenty years younger than Ruffalo) she's so amazing that I cannot actually complain. In addition to regularly making me forget she was not a dozen people on Orphan Black, I recently had the delight of watching her be yet another completely different character in the gritty HBO reboot of Perry Mason. (Which I enjoyed a lot, despite it often seeming like it should be a parody of gritty reboots.)
Jennifer Walters is one of my favourite Marvel characters that the MCU has still to take on, so I'm over the moon to know they're moving forward with such a great actor. Because the internet is the internet, I am already seeing people complain that she's too short, which seems to be missing the point a bit. Mark Ruffalo is also not eight feet tall and green! The physical contrast between forms seems like it's part of the deal for Hulks.
Now I just need to keep my fingers crossed for Marc Spector and company getting equally good casting. (I am not very worried about Kamala, since 'adorably geeky and earnest teen girl who loves superheroes and wants to use her superpowers to defend New Jersey' does not seem like a particularly difficult casting brief.)
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Date: 2020-09-17 11:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-19 02:14 am (UTC)I am keeping my fingers crossed that in the year 2020 Disney have finally absorbed the idea that not doing this would be huge fuck-up that would get them dragged all over the internet, even if they don't understand why it would be bad.
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Date: 2020-09-17 11:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-19 02:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-18 04:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-19 02:18 am (UTC)Apart from anything else, Ruffalo is only 5'8", and much as it might be funny to have Jennifer tower over him, I don't think that's the vibe they're likely to be going for.