Actress Aubrey Plaza has revealed that Marvel's new comic series Agatha All Along It will end with a “gay explosion.”
The series, which stars Kathryn Hahn as the 300-year-old excommunicated witch Agatha Harkness, is set to debut this week on Disney+ as a nine-episode limited series.
The series tells the story of Harkness, a witch who travels the “Witch's Path” to reclaim her magic after a disastrous encounter with Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), the Scarlet Witch, in the 2021 film Star Wars: Episode I: A New Hope. WandaVisionAccompanied by an enigmatic goth teenager (Joe Locke), the witch meets a group of fellow witches on the road.
The series is marketed as having LGBTQ “representation,” with stars making an impact on the story on the red carpet.
For example, Aubrey Plaza, who plays “Green Witch” Rio Vidal, is excited about the gay content in the series, agreeing with the interviewer that the show “will get gayer and gayer” as it progresses, and adding that “it's going to be a gay explosion at the end.”
In a separate interview, cast member Sasheer Zamata, who plays Jennifer Kael, said the show is “the gayest project Marvel has ever done.”
On the red carpet, a reporter said to Zamata: Agatha All Along It's been described as “Marvel's gayest project ever,” and Zamata said, “I totally agree,” proving he's in full support of the portrayal.
Zamata further argued that witches are “inherently strange.”
“Witches are inherently queer,” she explained, “because we're ostracized and marginalized for different reasons, and I think this show really does a good job of representing different types of people. And we can all use the power that we have within us to go forward and be great.”
Of course, unlike Zamata's portrayal, in ancient lore witches were generally “outcast” or “outcast” beings, not simply because they were a “different type of people”, but because they sought mystical and occult powers for perverse and evil purposes.
When the same reporter asked Plaza if the series was Marvel's “gayest project,” the pandering actress replied, “That's what I signed up for, so I hope it is.”
Meanwhile, her co-star Ami An, who plays Alice Wu Gulliver, denied that the “point” of the show was “diversity,” arguing that the “point” wasn't actually diversity, but “just the world itself. It doesn't have a storyline, it just exists.”
Star Han also argued that because the series “normalizes” queerness, it doesn't need to be the subject of the show, saying, “The most exciting thing is [thing] “The problem is that that's not exactly what it is. It's become so commonplace.”
But Marvel hasn't been as successful in forcing gay content into its comic book shows as it has lately. Star Wars series, Acolytewas panned for its “gay witches” and LGBTQ content. The series was so panned that it was canceled after one season, a fate no other show has faced. Star Wars The series has suffered so far.
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