Actress Cobie Smulders Discusses Secret Invasion Season One Debut Episode Spoilers and Maria Hill MCU Legacy!
THR reports.
‘Secret Invasion’ Star Cobie Smulders Is Shocked That the Series Premiere’s Ending Didn’t Leak
The Marvel veteran talks the surprising moment that she has kept quiet about for years.
[This story contains spoilers for Secret Invasion’s series premiere, “Resurrection.”]
When Marvel Studios ventured into television by way of Disney+, the expectation was that the brand would be able to dive deeper into its many characters, something it can only do so much of in a two-hour movie. Unfortunately for Secret Invasion star Cobie Smulders, her fan-favorite character Maria Hill will not be the recipient of such treatment, as the former SHIELD agent met her end in the Ali Selim-directed series premiere, “Resurrection.”
Considering her 2011 casting in The Avengers (2012) led to another five movies and three series, Smulders is taking her MCU exit in stride. (Her seventh movie appearance is reportedly coming in November’s The Marvels.)
“This has been an amazing run. What a dream job,” Smulders tells The Hollywood Reporter. “On paper, the credits are great, but … every production I’ve done has been an absolute blast with amazing people. So I really don’t have anything to complain about.”
Smulders is quite surprised that her character’s death didn’t leak, considering it was filmed at The Piece Hall in Halifax, West Yorkshire, with a great deal of background artists and onlookers in the mix.
“There were a lot of people around, so I’m surprised that there wasn’t an image that got leaked. I guess that’s the respect that Marvel has earned over the last decade, which is like, ‘Don’t spoil it for people.’ And nobody did, thankfully,” Smulders says.
What made Hill’s sendoff all the more bizarre is that Samuel L. Jackson was the one who pulled the trigger as faux Fury. Kingsley Ben-Adir’s baddie, Gravik, shapeshifted into Fury’s form, creating a disturbing dynamic that was the polar opposite of the one Fury has had with Hill throughout the MCU. Luckily, the real Nick Fury arrived just in time for Smulders and Jackson to have an emotional final moment.
“It was strange and kind of dark, wasn’t it? It was kind of weird on the day, because that very violent moment was followed by a very emotional moment that Sam and I got to share,” Smulders recalls. “So I focused more on that last moment than the darkness of him actually doing that [as Skrull imposter Fury].”
An interview with Smulders follows here with MCU Secret Invasion Season One spoilers.
