![]() ![]() What's going on with her in terms of her denial, and her self-doubt, and her disorientation that Agatha could trick her in this way? We wanted to feel that very viscerally and it seemed like an incredible opportunity for the audience to feel it too with this meta-level of casting, with all of their associations to Evan in this other space. “But more than that, it was really about what's happening in Wanda's head and the idea that someone could show up and not look like her brother and that she would accept it. It's just meta, meta, meta, and so it complemented the overall tone and aesthetic of the show in this uber way, so that felt very right and great for the identity of the show. ![]() “First, this is the meta-ist meta-show in the meta-verse. “We didn't want it to just be a gimmick and just be a gag because that's no good, so there were several things in play,” Schaeffer said. She explained their thinking behind using Peters and how it fit into the themes of the show. But according to Schaeffer, pulling a fast one on fans was never the intention. The hashtag #SaveQuicksilver even started trending on Twitter days after the finale. Some fans felt slighted, as if Marvel played a cruel joke on them, not unlike how Ben Kingsley’s Iron Man 3 character turned out to be a fake version of Tony Stark’s nemesis the Mandarin and was played as a gag. Is he playing the same Quicksilver from Fox’s X-Men movies? Is this how mutants will join the MCU? Why does Wanda accept this person as her brother when he looks nothing like him? These were just some of the burning questions fans had, but as we learned in the finale, Peters wasn’t there to introduce the X-Men to the MCU, he was just Wanda’s neighbor mind-controlled by Agatha, an aspiring actor named Ralph Bohner. 104 Images Why Did Evan Peters Play the Role of Quicksilver in WandaVision?When Evan Peters showed up in the role of Quicksilver at the end of Episode 5 it was as much a shock to Wanda as it was viewers watching at home.
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