

Per Marvel lore, the Contessa is no minor role, even if the future of Louis-Dreyfus’ tenure in the franchise remains a big question mark.
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It certainly would have been a fun reveal to have Louis-Dreyfus show up in an action movie by one of the biggest studios in the world all of a sudden in a theater with tons of other folks, but, alas.

In that timeline, we would have likely been less taken aback to see her here in Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Should that rumor prove true, it would prove that we were meant to have met Louis-Dreyfus’ Marvel character on the big screen before the small one. I would dig that.” Alas, there’s no fire-shooting and face-kicking yet, but Vanity Fair goes on to quote sources that claim that the Contessa will also appear in Black Widow-a movie was meant to premiere last May, until the pandemic went and pandemic’d all over the place, so now it’s not out until this July. Vanity Fair reports that Veep showrunner David Mandel needled her in an interview back then, saying she should play a Marvel villain, which she sheepishly acknowledged: “ Swinging around on wires and kicking people in the face … shooting fire out of whatever you shoot fire out of. That said, Louis-Dreyfus apparently hinted at her future Marvel partnership way back in 2019, so maybe we shouldn’t be so shocked. The Oscar Season’s Best #MeToo Movie Isn’t the One About Harvey Weinstein Taylor Swift’s Midnights Is the Right Kind of Concept Albumįifty Years Ago, He Was America’s Most Famous Writer. The Great New Comedy That Should Get Colin Farrell His First Oscar Nomination Thanks for signing up! You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.
