The actress behind a key character in Marvel TV series Agatha All Along has said she’s pitched MCU boss Kevin Feige a way she could still return — despite her apparent tragic death.
Warning! Spoilers for Agatha All Along follow.
Legendary actress Patti Lupone, who plays Agatha’s coven-mate Lilia, says she’s keen to appear in future MCU projects, even if it’s just for a cameo appearance.
This is despite the fact that viewers saw Lilia sacrifice herself in the supernatural series’ seventh — and best — episode, Death’s Hand in Mine.
Lilia’s fate appeared sealed as she sacrifices herself for a heroic — if tragic — ending, upending a tower to defeat the coven’s enemies, the Salem Seven, causing them to fall to their deaths, impaled on swords.
“I will just say, you never see Lilia land,” Lupone has now said, speaking to Entertainment Weekly in a joint interview with Agatha actress Kathryn Hahn. “[Your character] never hits those swords,” agreed Hahn.
Death’s Hand in Mine is an episode centred on Lupone’s character, and reveals that she has been experiencing her life out of sequence since she was a child. Because of this, the episode is presented with flashbacks and flashforwards — and we see Lilia falling from the beginning of the episode.
Now, Lupone says she has suggested to Kevin Feige that this could also be a way for her character to return — even if it is just to fall past the screen in other MCU projects too, as something of an in-joke.
“I said, ‘You know what you should do in all the Marvel movies? You should have a tiny Lilia falling in the corner…'” Lupone said of her conversation with Feige. “I just want to make sure that everybody knows, we never saw her [land].”
Stranger things than Lilia’s return have happened in the MCU (remember when Harry Styles turned up as Thanos’ brother?), and with the multiverse shenanigans of Avengers: Doomsday on the horizon, anything is possible. Alternatively, Lilia could just turn up as a ghost, as Agatha herself did in the series’ finale.
Agatha’s own future in the MCU remains unannounced, though the success of her series has left fans expecting a continuation of her story with Wiccan, AKA Billy, of some kind.
Earlier this week, an apparent set leak spilled details of a surprising MCU location set to return in Avengers: Doomsday.
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