Tatiana Maslany’s funniest moment in the She-Hulk finale was a meta reference to a piece of merchandise
To be completely honest, we’re all still kind of reeling from it That’s bonkers She-Hulk the endWhere Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) breaks through the fourth wall so far, she comes face-to-face at Marvel Studios headquarters. The “real” president of the MCU. It was an appropriately meta ending to a series that relentlessly poked fun at itself and had its main character comment on events in real time, as did his cousin Bryce Banner (Mark Ruffalo). Introduced a new character In the last minute of the final. There’s also a moment in the finale that still makes me laugh every time I watch it, and when I got a chance to Maslany about it, he explained that even that moment was a meta reference aimed at most of the cast and crew.
It goes without saying that Tatiana Maslany was delightful as Jane Walters, and even if all the humor She-Hulk Didn’t land with me in every episode, I personally love Maslany’s complete lack of ego and willingness to try anything in search of a punchline. During a pivotal confrontation with Kevin in the finale, Walters played every Marvel fan when he asked the omniscient brain when we’re getting the X-Men on screen. Then, he made this incredible face:
It seemed like an unusual choice. But Tatiana Maslany actually had a very specific reason for making that hysterical face when she looked directly into the camera after quizzing Kevin about the future of mutants in the MCU, e.g. he told CinemaBlend:
I love that (scene) writing, I love it so much. It is ‘inside Jane’s brain’. But also, that moment for me – Jessica Gao’s husband, Truck (Torrance), is an artist who made She-Hulk hats. And one of them is like this face (makes face). And it came out right at that moment! Because he made these hats … so it was this beautiful kind of, again, another meta element of this whole show.
I didn’t even need to know about the She-Hulk hat to get a laugh out of the face Tatiana Maslany chose to make in the finale. Knowing this is a nod to the hats made for the cast and crew is the icing on an already fun cake. If you have one Disney+ subscription, but haven’t binged the series yet, at least give the show a chance to finish. It’s very entertaining, and also has more scenes between Maslany and the excellent Charlie Cox. Damn, do they have incredible chemistry.
We still don’t know if She-Hulk is being renewed for a second season, and the head writer is Jessica Gao Don’t want to address the subject Immediately after the final. But because of the sitcom style of the show, it would be easy to come up with more legal cases for Jane Walters to deal with… but also, there are too many. Upcoming Marvel movies That could use She-Hulk as a valuable addition. We will see!