Maria Hill Actress Cobie Smulders Reveals Marvel Didn’t Inform Her About That Skrull Twist

Did Cobie Smulders know she was enjoying a Skrull? The Maria Hill actress reveals that Marvel hid one of many largest twists from her whereas filming Spider-Man: Far From Residence.

Loads of stunning moments crammed the minutes of Spider-Man: Far From Residence, however maybe none moreso than the reveal that Maria Hill and Nick Fury had secretly been Skrull brokers all through the movie. This left followers excited for (and primed to be dissatisfied by) the potential of a Secret Invasion storyline. Nonetheless, in accordance with Cobie Smulders, Marvel by no means instructed her concerning the twist till filming had already wrapped.

“I wasn’t actually me. I didn’t know that till the top, till we had completed taking pictures,” Smulders defined throughout a latest panel at Terrificon 2024. “[Marvel Studios] let me know. They have been like, ‘Simply so you recognize, we have been gonna do that factor. They wished me to play it [normally]. Even when I knew the entire time, I believe we nonetheless can be enjoying the truth of the day-to-day.”

Cobie Smulders can be removed from the one actress that Marvel has lied to through the years. Nonetheless, given how monumental the Skrull reveal was on the finish of Spider-Man: No Method Residence, it’s attention-grabbing that they didn’t even clue her in to the concept that she was enjoying a special model of Maria Hill. Although givent he character’s future within the MCU, it could have been finest she bought to play an genuine model of the character one final time.

Might Cobie Smulders Return As Maria Hill?

Marvel’s choice to kill off Cobie Smulders’ Maria Hill in Secret Invasion has gone down as one of the controversial in all the MCU. Whereas followers anticipated her to doubtlessly find yourself as a Skrull, there was some quantity of hope that one of the iconic brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D. would come out on the opposite aspect of the Disney Plus collection unscathed.

Following her demise within the Skrull-centric collection, many have puzzled if there’s an opportunity Marvel may retcon her destiny so she may return within the MCU. Cobie Smulders clearly has a great relationship with the studio, together with her having reprised her position as Maria Hill within the animated present Moon Woman and Satan Dinosaur. Nonetheless, it appears an precise live-action comeback for the character has been left on the chopping room flooring.

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