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“This is ultimately not Pietro at the door. “For a show that was very meta and that was exploring sitcom tropes, this felt like something that was fun for us to do,” he said.
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Shakman expanded on how Peters not only serves as a meta commentary on TV recasting but how the character became a pivotal element of the plot. “I would redirect to what the show is really about, and what is meaningful about the show, and what does resonate.” I don't want anyone to feel tricked and, of course, you don't want people disappointed in things,” she said. “I don't want anyone to feel like a prank was pulled on them.
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Ultimately, Schaeffer hopes fans can appreciate what they were striving for with Peters. “It is absolutely a nod to how sitcoms manage change, how they bring in a baby, how they change the actor, all those ridiculous things, which are actually to me really sinister, really, really effed up, and we wanted to get in with that texture, and use it to our advantage,” she said. The idea of doing it with just any other actor, I'm like, ‘That's not going to land.’ That's not going to have the same thrill, and craziness, and questions, and be as disorienting, and so that was so much of what it was about for us.” Schaeffer also highlighted how swapping original MCU Quicksilver actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson for Peters let them satirize how TV sitcoms would sometimes re-cast a role without the other characters ever acknowledging it (unless you’re Jazz from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air). What's going on with her in terms of her denial, and her self-doubt, and her disorientation that Agatha could trick her in this way? We wanted to feel that very viscerally and it seemed like an incredible opportunity for the audience to feel it too with this meta-level of casting, with all of their associations to Evan in this other space. “But more than that, it was really about what's happening in Wanda's head and the idea that someone could show up and not look like her brother and that she would accept it. It's just meta, meta, meta, and so it complemented the overall tone and aesthetic of the show in this uber way, so that felt very right and great for the identity of the show. “First, this is the meta-ist meta-show in the meta-verse. “We didn't want it to just be a gimmick and just be a gag because that's no good, so there were several things in play,” Schaeffer said.
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She explained their thinking behind using Peters and how it fit into the themes of the show. But according to Schaeffer, pulling a fast one on fans was never the intention. The hashtag #SaveQuicksilver even started trending on Twitter days after the finale. Some fans felt slighted, as if Marvel played a cruel joke on them, not unlike how Ben Kingsley’s Iron Man 3 character turned out to be a fake version of Tony Stark’s nemesis the Mandarin and was played as a gag. Is he playing the same Quicksilver from Fox’s X-Men movies? Is this how mutants will join the MCU? Why does Wanda accept this person as her brother when he looks nothing like him? These were just some of the burning questions fans had, but as we learned in the finale, Peters wasn’t there to introduce the X-Men to the MCU, he was just Wanda’s neighbor mind-controlled by Agatha, an aspiring actor named Ralph Bohner. Why Did Evan Peters Play the Role of Quicksilver in WandaVision?When Evan Peters showed up in the role of Quicksilver at the end of Episode 5 it was as much a shock to Wanda as it was viewers watching at home.