We’re halfway through “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” on Disney+ and we sat down with the cast to get more details on the MCU’s latest series. We spoke with Director Anu Valia, Jameela Jamil (Titania), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Mallory Book), and Joshua Segarra (Augustus ‘Pug’ Pugliese) about their love for courtroom dramas, living out their fandom dreams, the details behind that Daredevil tease and much more!
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00:00 She's just super strong and she can annoy you to death.
00:02 Which one is she better at?
00:04 I think it's pretty equal from what we've seen so far.
00:08 And I have one of those powers,
00:10 and I'll just let you guess which one it is.
00:13 It's super strong.
00:14 It's definitely super strong.
00:15 Sure.
00:16 I believe that 100%.
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00:28 I also feel like she has a vendetta against Jen.
00:32 Am I reading too much into that?
00:33 I think it's just that she's got this classic female
00:38 scarcity mindset of there can only be one.
00:41 Okay.
00:42 I think any woman who would show any sign of strength
00:47 that could possibly match Titania
00:49 she would try to destroy.
00:51 She feels like there can only be one
00:52 and this town is only big enough for one of us,
00:56 and she thinks it's gonna be her.
00:58 And so she'll do anything she has to to make it so.
01:02 My all-time favorite scenes in any form of entertainment
01:06 are courtroom standoffs.
01:07 I could watch them forever.
01:09 I love the dialogue in them.
01:11 I love the interactions between the characters.
01:14 Are they as much fun to film as they are to watch?
01:16 Oh, my gosh.
01:17 I'm so glad you asked me that,
01:18 'cause I love them.
01:21 You know what it is?
01:22 I'm a thespian, I'm a theater actor,
01:24 and they're the most challenging
01:26 because it's the most dialogue in one shot.
01:28 And everyone starts the day really stressed out
01:31 'cause they think they're gonna be there forever
01:32 'cause they think you're not gonna get through it.
01:34 And I'm from the theater, so I show up like,
01:36 "Boom, first take. I'm getting all this out.
01:38 Are you guys ready to go?"
01:39 Like, I just love the pressure that I put on myself
01:42 to be a real lawyer.
01:44 This is the closest I'm gonna get to being a real lawyer,
01:46 and I love it. I'm glad you like it, too.
01:48 They are fun to shoot because of the actors.
01:51 They're actually quite technical.
01:53 There's a lot of -- I mean, this is boring,
01:57 but you need a lot of coverage.
01:59 It's sort of -- It's the dinner scenes, courtroom scenes.
02:02 You need a ton of coverage.
02:03 So we spent many days getting those courtroom --
02:06 We spent multiple days getting those courtroom scenes,
02:08 and it's a lot.
02:11 It's a lot. It's a lot.
02:13 Josh, as someone who has experience
02:15 with the "enemy" in DC Comics
02:19 and being part of the Arrowverse,
02:20 I just need to know how it's different
02:22 from working at Disney Plus.
02:24 Or if there is any difference at all.
02:26 The differences are, you know,
02:30 the energy in which you're approaching the character.
02:33 But I'll be honest with you.
02:34 When I was playing Adrian Chase,
02:36 I was playing him like he was a hero,
02:38 like he was a good guy,
02:39 like he was in love with Oliver, you know?
02:43 Like, it all came from the same love of somebody.
02:47 They just went about it a little differently, you know?
02:49 Days at the end of beating each other up over there,
02:54 I was a little more sore, whereas days over here,
02:56 we get to crack jokes a little bit more.
02:58 -And has it sort of taught you a bit
03:00 about the fan bases for those properties, too?
03:02 -I mean, absolutely.
03:03 But I consider myself a fan in the fan base.
03:06 So I've loved professional wrestling since I was a kid.
03:08 That was my first comic book, if you will.
03:10 Those were my first superheroes.
03:12 I was cutting promos in the mirror.
03:14 I have VHSs of me and my buddies wrestling on the trampoline.
03:18 So to be in the comic book world,
03:20 it is me as a kid in the candy store,
03:22 and I'm gonna hold on to it near and dear.
03:25 -Jamila and Ann Foley are costume designers.
03:27 They deserve so much credit.
03:28 I mean, like, I don't even know how early
03:31 Ann had been working on her outfit.
03:33 Jamila did a lot of her own makeup.
03:35 Like, she had all this gorge.
03:36 She had -- Like, the two of them were like,
03:39 "Got it. Gonna run with it."
03:41 -I did. I did.
03:42 I wanted her to be as ridiculous and over-the-top
03:46 and kind of --
03:48 I wanted her to look like a walking filter.
03:50 Do you know what I mean?
03:51 Because she's playing this super-influencer
03:54 and so this super-villain-influencer.
03:55 And so I wanted to just cover her in makeup and contour,
03:59 and I changed my features
04:01 so it looked like I'd had plastic surgery.
04:03 -Right. -Because that's a big part
04:04 of what she is. Everything about her is fake.
04:07 She's the exact opposite of Jen, who's so authentic
04:10 and who doesn't really want all this attention.
04:12 Titania's dying for it all.
04:14 She wants to be seen and noticed at all times,
04:17 and she's manic about it.
04:18 And so I wanted to --
04:20 I think I worked really well with Ann Foley
04:23 and with our hair team --
04:24 Sorry, and with our hair team, and Dina, my hairdresser,
04:28 to create someone who was just always too much.
04:31 -You did leave us with a nice tease
04:33 for the man without fear.
04:36 And now that everyone has seen it,
04:38 I'm just curious about the discussions you guys had
04:40 about, like, what can we show and how will we show it?
04:43 How did you come to that conclusion?
04:44 -Yeah, I mean, like, I saw the script.
04:46 I was like, "Oh, my God."
04:49 And then you start thinking and talking,
04:51 and it's a very collaborative, super collaborative atmosphere
04:55 with a lot of freedom.
04:57 And so I sort of popped around some ideas,
05:00 we pitched some things, we storyboarded some thoughts,
05:03 and then you sort of hone in.
05:05 "Oh, you want to show that, you want to show this,
05:06 you want it to be this and this."
05:08 And then through that, we got to where we were.
05:13 I actually think the -- pretty close to my original words
05:17 is how that was supposed to be.
05:20 Actually, I don't think we did that many versions of it,
05:21 but it definitely is a conversation
05:23 that everybody needs to be, like, cool about.
05:27 -Marvel Project, I just was curious if you anticipated
05:30 there being more sort of, like, action and fighting
05:32 instead of, like, courtroom drama.
05:35 -I definitely had no idea
05:37 that I was going to be doing any action.
05:39 I knew there would be action in the project,
05:41 but I was reassured by Kat, our director,
05:44 that I was just doing a little cameo
05:46 because she was flying to get me to come and do it.
05:48 And it's only because I was very afraid of stunts
05:50 that I was avoiding any kind of Marvel Projects.
05:53 So I just didn't know what the project was,
05:56 and I thought I was playing just a regular human arsehole.
06:01 You know, I didn't think that I was going to play
06:03 a super arsehole, which is very exciting.
06:07 And it also creates room for me to maybe have a future
06:11 in the MCU because I have superpowers.
06:13 So, fingers crossed I get to do that
06:15 and tell more of Mary's -- I mean, Titania's story.
06:19 She's known as Mary McFerrin in the comics.
06:21 But it was the surprise of my life,
06:24 and thank you to Kat Coiro because she changed my life
06:26 with those phone calls and e-mails
06:29 forcing me to do that audition and overcome my fear.
06:32 And I am grateful to her forever.
06:34 -We will call it "Spinoff Asshole," and it'll be --
06:37 -[ Laughs ]
06:39 -It'll be coming to Disney+ in 2023.
06:42 -Yeah, Disney are going to love that.
06:44 -But I think a more specific thing I can say is, like,
06:48 this show does such a good job of subverting your expectations
06:51 of what you think it's going to be.
06:53 And I think Jennifer speaking to the fourth wall is so --
06:56 breaking the fourth wall is so much about that.
06:58 Like, speaking to the audience, being like, "I think, you know --
07:00 I think I -- I know what you're thinking."
07:03 You know what I mean?
07:04 Including the audience in the making of the show.
07:07 -Yeah.
07:08 -Or, you know, obviously, the show's been made already,
07:10 but there's this sort of dialogue
07:13 that the show's having with the audience.
07:14 And so there's definitely a lot of thought
07:16 into, like, how do we play with expectations?
07:19 I know the writers thought about that a lot.
07:20 Like, I can't take any credit for the strips.
07:22 That's completely Jessica Gao and her team.
07:25 That's kind of what I'll say is, like, there's --
07:28 yes, there's a reason why this show
07:30 feels very different than other shows.
07:32 -Excuse me. -Oh.
07:34 -Could you take a photo of us? -Oh, my God, yes.
07:36 -No. -Back up.
07:37 -That's a lizard eye. -Just give me some space.
07:40 -You're taking the photo? -Just one.
07:41 Just one, and that is it.
07:43 (upbeat music)