We spoke with SheHulk showrunner ChairmanGao on the pilot, sex positivity, and the friendship between Jen and Nikki.
[Editor's note: The following contains some spoilers for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.]Jessica Gao, head writer and executive producer of the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, was so focused on writing for Marvel that she kept pitching to Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, to no avail.
You’ve said that you were rejected by Marvel three times previously, with two of those times being Black Widow and Shang-Chi. Were you determined to keep going back until something finally clicked? How do you not get discouraged? It really was day one, the moment she set foot on set. It was miraculous the way a few moments prior, there were just words on a page, and then, all of a sudden, it was a real person in front of us. And she also infused so much of herself into this character too. She brought so much more than what was just on the page. I think one of her many gifts is that she cares so much about character.
Obviously, the most memorable end credit scene is the Captain America scene. I very much appreciated getting confirmation on that bit of information, but who is the one that had to go to Kevin Feige to actually get that official confirmation? What was that conversation like? Did you always know that you were going to do these end-credit scenes for every episode? Was that something that evolved? Was it just something where you had these scenes that didn’t necessarily fit directly in the episode?
You spend half the episode, falling in love with him the way she does. He comes off as such a perfect date. He wants to hear all about her. He wants to split fries. He’s reading feminist literature. And then, the cold hard truth of reality hits and it’s so terrible for her that your heart really breaks for her. Tatiana’s performance, in that moment, was so wonderful because she didn’t go too big with it.
GAO: Daredevil was a special case. Most of the time, what we do is mine the movies and the comics, and we pick a character we wanna use, then we think of what the best and funniest way is for us to use them, and then we ask Marvel, if we can have them. But Daredevil was a dream that we dared not dream. We were like, “Oh, there’s no way. That’s not even on the table.” It never even crossed our minds.
GAO: It’s true. I just had to accept, from the get-go, that Marvel is a gigantic machine that’s a huge, lumbering, moving machine, which means that it’s going to go, with or without you. You can either just join the ride, get out of the way, or you can get run over by the machine. At a certain point, you just have to give in because the machine is too big. It’s bigger than you. But I think the VFX team did such a great job of capturing and maintaining Tatiana’s performance.
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