{"id":121008,"date":"2024-11-02T00:05:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121008"},"modified":"2024-11-02T00:05:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:05:05","slug":"nicholas-scratchs-father-agatha-and-rios-backstory-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121008","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Scratch&#8217;s Father, Agatha and Rio&#8217;s Backstory Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>SPOILER WARNING: <\/strong><em>This story includes major plot details for the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/marvel-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marvel-studios\" data-tag=\"marvel-studios\">Marvel Studios<\/a> limited series \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/agatha-all-along\/\" id=\"auto-tag_agatha-all-along\" data-tag=\"agatha-all-along\">Agatha All Along<\/a>,\u201d currently streaming on Disney+.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhen <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jac-schaeffer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jac-schaeffer\" data-tag=\"jac-schaeffer\">Jac Schaeffer<\/a> signs onto Zoom roughly 18 hours after the two-episode finale of her series \u201cAgatha All Along\u201d debuted on Disney+, she looks at once relieved and slightly queasy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cFrom when it dropped to about an hour ago, I\u2019ve been feeling pretty shaky,\u201d the showrunner says with a laugh. \u201cWe dropped a lot of content \u2014 a lot of <em>moments<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSchaeffer isn\u2019t exaggerating. The episodes, titled \u201cFollow Me My Friend \/ To Glory at the End\u201d and \u201cMaiden Mother Crone,\u201d are <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/tv\/news\/agatha-all-along-finale-explained-billy-tommy-witches-road-nicholas-scratch-1236195942\/\">chockablock with surprise twists and revelations<\/a> that upend the story of Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), Billy Maximoff (Joe Locke) and the coven of women who venture with them onto the fabled Witches\u2019 Road. For one thing, it turns out the Witches\u2019 Road never really existed \u2014 until Billy unknowingly summoned it into being. For another, \u201cThe Ballad of the Witches\u2019 Road,\u201d the song that supposedly outlines the trials of the road, was really created by Agatha\u2019s young son Nicholas \u201cNicky\u201d Scratch (Abel Lysenko) as a way to pass the time while they walked along a country road together in 1750s New England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs was the case with Schaeffer\u2019s previous series, \u201cWandaVision,\u201d \u201cAgatha All Along\u201d grounds these magical plot turns in the characters\u2019 emotional storylines: Billy creates the road as a way for him to find his long lost brother Tommy; after Lady Death (Aubrey Plaza), a.k.a. Rio Vidal, takes Nicky into the afterlife one night, Agatha wields the \u201cBallad\u201d to con unwitting witches into letting her drain all of their power \u2014 and as a way to remain connected to her son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSchaeffer\u2019s deep investment in the care and craft of this kind of storytelling is unmistakable, as is the satisfaction she gets from finally being able to talk about it all without worrying about spoilers. In a wide ranging conversation with <em>Variety<\/em>, Schaeffer shared how she and her writing team first conjured these storylines, why she wasn\u2019t sure she wanted the road to be created by Billy, what the backstory was for Agatha and Rio\u2019s romantic relationship, why we never learn who fathered Nicky, why Tommy isn\u2019t in the show, what she regrets didn\u2019t make the final cut of the show and the post-credits tag she wrote for \u201cWandaVision\u201d that never got used.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  size-large alignnone\">\n<figure class=\"o-figure  lrv-u-font-family-secondary u-color-medium-grey lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-light-grey-tint-two u-margin-b-150 lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1024px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-variety-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04133_R2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04133_R2.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04133_R2.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04133_R2.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04133_R2.jpg?resize=1360,907 1360w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04133_R2.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04133_R2.jpg?resize=910,607 910w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04133_R2.jpg?resize=681,454 681w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04133_R2.jpg?resize=450,300 450w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04133_R2.jpg?resize=250,167 250w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"683\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-t-1 lrv-u-padding-b-1\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"u-color-medium-grey lrv-a-font-secondary-regular-xs u-margin-b-050\">Patti LuPone, Sasheer Zamata, Jac Schaeffer, Kathryn Hahn, Joe Locke, Debra Jo Rupp and Ali Ahn on the set of \u201cAgatha All Along.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"u-color-medium-grey lrv-a-font-secondary-regular-xxs\">Chuck Zlotnick \/ Marvel Studios<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>When did you decide that everything that we had been watching was in essence a magic trick, like that the \u201cBallad\u201d meant nothing and that the road wasn\u2019t real until Billy made it real?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt was about a month into the writers\u2019 room. We had been working diligently on the construction of the road, putting a lot of love and attention into what this would be like. We had this idea that all the trees were the witches who had died on the road. We were taking it really seriously. Then I had this idea that maybe Billy made the road, and Agatha puppeteers him to do it. Strangely, Mary Livanos, our executive producer, had the idea of Billy making the road at the same time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWe had already been circling this idea that Agatha had walked the Witches\u2019 Road with her son, that he was perhaps buried on the road. But then Giovanna Sarquis\u2019 had this idea of Agatha singing the \u201cBallad\u201d on the road with Nicky, and it all started to slot into place. Billy made the road, Agatha did in fact walk a road, but it was a real road in nature with her son, and he\u2019s the one who came up with the \u201cBallad.\u201d She took the \u201cBallad\u201d and turned it into a con.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI am obsessed with \u201cThe Usual Suspects,\u201d and it felt like Agatha being Keyser S\u00f6ze, with Billy having with the Kobayashi moment where all the pieces come together. All along the way, even this week, I was feeling conflicted about Billy having made the road, in terms of it being a duplication of \u201cWandaVision.\u201d But I could never resist the truth of Nicky coming up with the \u201cBallad\u201d and that being the heart of it all. It was just irresistible.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Fans have been <em>loving<\/em> the parallel of Wanda creating the world of \u201cWandaVision\u201d and Billy creating the world of the Witches\u2019 Road \u2014\u00a0why were you resistant to it?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI have had the pleasure of working with these characters in the MCU, who have such power as to destroy stakes, to melt a narrative. You have to be really careful with that. If Wanda and Billy can do anything they want, everything falls apart. I think that\u2019s the hesitation. I feel we did it with intelligence and fortitude. We decided that everything in his room had connections to the road and that, if you\u2019re watching the [end] credits, we\u2019re telling you that from the very beginning. In fact, if you watch the credits of \u201cAgnes of Westview,\u201d there are single frames of the witches that Agatha kills. So we\u2019re saying everything upfront, it just doesn\u2019t knit together until the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBut I also felt the overwhelming desire to dip back into the \u201cWandaVision\u201d playground of pop culture illusions, and this felt like a really authentic way to do it, that William Kaplan\/Billy Maximoff loves magic, loves witches, and loves horror, and that that can be the fabric of the show, much like Wanda and her obsession with sitcoms. So it ended up feeling very right.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  size-large alignnone\">\n<figure class=\"o-figure  lrv-u-font-family-secondary u-color-medium-grey lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-light-grey-tint-two u-margin-b-150 lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1024px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-variety-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15842_R.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15842_R.jpeg 1500w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15842_R.jpeg?resize=150,100 150w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15842_R.jpeg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15842_R.jpeg?resize=1360,907 1360w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15842_R.jpeg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15842_R.jpeg?resize=910,607 910w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15842_R.jpeg?resize=681,454 681w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15842_R.jpeg?resize=450,300 450w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15842_R.jpeg?resize=250,167 250w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"683\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-t-1 lrv-u-padding-b-1\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"u-color-medium-grey lrv-a-font-secondary-regular-xs u-margin-b-050\">Kathryn Hahn, Joe Locke and Sasheer Zamata in \u201cAgatha All Along.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"u-color-medium-grey lrv-a-font-secondary-regular-xxs\">Chuck Zlotnick \/ Marvel Studios<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>I found the motivations behind what both Wanda and Billy do with their magic were also deeply seated in their connection to family. Creating entire worlds doesn\u2019t feel like a flight of fancy.<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI think, too, that Wanda made her sitcom reality out of grief and desperation, and I think Billy made a lot of his out of love for the witch community, and that is really lovely and beautiful. Even though \u201cAgatha All Along\u201d is a darker show, and there are horror elements to it, there\u2019s an enthusiasm and an eagerness and a joy to it, that I think is born of his psychology.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>So how did you work out with Kathryn Hahn about how much to let on that Agatha, as we learn, figures it all out pretty much right away?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI will say that we played with her hoping that it was Nicky. There are moments, even with the evidence right in her face, when she lets herself believe a little bit that it is her son. And Rio brings her back to reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt was less about her performance than what we chose to use in post. We captured more things hinting at the truth than we actually have in the show. She gave degrees. In Episode 2, when they finally make it to the road, I think I did three or four takes of that single shot pulling Agatha out of the strangler fig tree onto the road. I think I did one where she barely looks at Billy and then I did one where she really gives him the side eye. Kathryn fully understood that we needed to get variations in order to calibrate it in post. In our early cuts, there wasn\u2019t enough. There were some Marvel notes about tipping our hand a little bit more, so that the breadcrumbs were there. I agree with that. I think it\u2019s calibrated well in our final cuts.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Still, when you first reveal Billy\u2019s bedroom in Episode 6, that isn\u2019t so much a bed crumb as a whole loaf of bread. Were you worried people would figure it out at that point?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWe kept the camera off of the leaves. I thought we weren\u2019t going to see the green witch figurine, but you do post on a tiny little screen, and I didn\u2019t realize it actually is right there in the back. So it revealed a little bit more than I was anticipating, having stared at it so long. But I don\u2019t know, I think it actually worked out that people were starting to piece it together. You need certain reveals to either consciously or subconsciously feel inevitable for the audience in order to earn the ones that are completely off the spine, and aren\u2019t predictable. Like, you can\u2019t predict the Nicky stuff. You can\u2019t just launch an audience into a reveal that has no basis in what\u2019s come before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSo I think it\u2019s OK that people were formulating that, because all of the theories that I saw were: \u201cBilly has made a version of the road.\u201d No one was saying the road doesn\u2019t exist. That\u2019s the real reveal.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>There are already people on social media noticing the parallels between the walk Wanda does in her neighborhood at the end of \u201cWandaVision\u201d with a very similar walk Billy makes at the end of Episode 8. Was that intentional?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat was very intentional. That\u2019s Mary Livanos looking out for the larger tapestry of this family and the visual language, and Wanda and Billy having this thorny relationship with the larger public. I think that\u2019s really integral to the Maximoff experience.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Who came up with the idea that Agatha is the one who was responsible for binding Jennifer (Sasheer Zamata)?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI don\u2019t remember who came up with that. I wish I could. But we all loved it, because there\u2019s a sense with Agatha that nothing is sacred, and that she is so willing to participate in witch-on-witch crime. So that felt really right. But seeing Agatha soften because of Jen\u2019s power is really one of my favorite moments.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Having a Black woman tell a white woman, \u201cYou hold nothing,\u201d over and over again, that was a powerful moment. How did that come together?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWell, initially, when we wrote the character of Jen \u2014 when we wrote all the characters \u2014 we had conversations about race, but we didn\u2019t land emphatically anywhere [on what race the characters would be]. Sarah Finn, our casting director saw a lot of different performers for the roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhen we hired Sasheer, she was very interested in research. In her comedy set, she already had a bit about witches, that was based in her research. We liked this idea that Jen was a root worker and a midwife, and we actually put Sasheer together with this professor that we found to do a deeper dive. Everything kind of grew from there. I\u2019m so grateful for the integrity that she brought to that process.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Once you did cast the roles, did you have a conversation with Sasheer or the writers about the racial dynamics in that scene?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNo, it just became more powerful. We always knew that Jen would make it to that trial, that Agatha had bound her, and that she would get herself out. But it just became more resonant when it was Sasheer standing her ground and surviving. It wasn\u2019t a conversation about race, it was a conversation about Jen, and what this moment means for her.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  size-large alignnone\">\n<figure class=\"o-figure  lrv-u-font-family-secondary u-color-medium-grey lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-light-grey-tint-two u-margin-b-150 lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1024px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-variety-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15875_R2.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15875_R2.jpeg 1500w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15875_R2.jpeg?resize=150,100 150w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15875_R2.jpeg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15875_R2.jpeg?resize=1360,907 1360w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15875_R2.jpeg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15875_R2.jpeg?resize=910,607 910w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15875_R2.jpeg?resize=681,454 681w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15875_R2.jpeg?resize=450,300 450w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MPY-108-15875_R2.jpeg?resize=250,167 250w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"683\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-t-1 lrv-u-padding-b-1\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"u-color-medium-grey lrv-a-font-secondary-regular-xs u-margin-b-050\">Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza in \u201cAgatha All Along.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"u-color-medium-grey lrv-a-font-secondary-regular-xxs\">Chuck Zlotnick \/ Marvel Studios<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Shifting gears to Rio, did you have more of the backstories worked out of what her relationship with Agatha was like?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWe did. We talked a lot about their meet cute. We had these really pretty visuals of Agatha killing people and then seeing Rio across the bodies, like that line, \u201cThey met over corpses.\u201d I mean, I saw it in my mind. It was really beautiful and also quite funny. And then the room took it in a direction that then they lived together in a cottage, and we talked at length about it, to the point of, \u201cIs Rio Nicky\u2019s father?\u201d We went down those paths, and they were very gratifying to explore. I think there\u2019s more story there, but we were already biting off so much with the Nicky sequence that was vital to this story, that it didn\u2019t feel like we could flash all the way back to Rio and Agatha before Nicky and then get into Nicky. It sort of threatened to tip the boat over, but I think all those discussions informed what you do see of their relationship.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>So who is Nicky\u2019s father?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat\u2019s a story for another day, but ultimately for me, it\u2019s irrelevant in this story.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Do <em>you<\/em> know who it is?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe truth is that even if I did have an answer, I don\u2019t cover it in this property. So it is fodder for a story for another day, that I maybe don\u2019t have control over.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>You do have Agatha saying \u201cI made you from scratch\u201d to Nicky right after he\u2019s born, which could mean so many things, like he was conjured or he\u2019s an immaculate conception. Where did that line come from?\u00a0<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI came up with it, and [my co-writer] Laura Donney loved the line so much, she was like, \u201cI feel like I could have written this,\u201d but she said it in this lovely way of, \u201cit is born of our work.\u201d It\u2019s my favorite line in the show, because I love the ambiguity of it. I welcome the interpretations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFor me, I believe it\u2019s about the character of Agatha making something. Her power set is only about death and destruction. She can\u2019t make anything. She doesn\u2019t have chaos magic, like Billy and Wanda, and this is something that she made herself. It required no lying and no conning, and there\u2019s something for her that is pure and beautiful about creation.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>When Agatha chooses to kiss Rio and end her own life after Billy telepathically asks her about Nicky \u2014 I interpreted that as her realizing she could save Billy from Death in a way she never could with Nicky. Am I barking up the right tree there?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tYeah. I will say, the reality is, the finale pieces of these projects are very, very hard, because there\u2019s a lot of Marvel burden to deal with. There\u2019s a lot of fan expectation, there\u2019s a lot of familiarity. I deal in tropes of other pop culture stuff, but then, you got to get into the tropes of the MCU. So we\u2019re hurtling toward a moment of a crucible, and what everyone\u2019s expecting is a redemption arc for Agatha and she sacrifices herself. From the beginning, you feel like that\u2019s where it\u2019s going, and I was interested in doing that in a recognizably Marvel way, but have it be different, in that it\u2019s a kiss, not a blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat moment of the telepathy between the two of them was not scripted initially. It\u2019s something that we created. It was Megan McDonald\u2019s idea on set, and we didn\u2019t know exactly what he was going to say. It actually was a late stage idea in post that he would say, \u201cIs this how Nicky died?\u201d I think ultimately it\u2019s Billy manipulating Agatha, after being so manipulated by her. He\u2019s truthful, but also, he\u2019s like, \u201cI have one shot at saying something to this woman, to make her stop,\u201d and that\u2019s what he chooses. That is shrewd. That\u2019s devious, even though it\u2019s not coming from a dark place within him.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>How did the idea of Agatha becoming a ghost come into the show?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWe knew she would be a ghost from the very, very beginning of developing the show. It was always that we were going to end her as a ghost. She\u2019s not in the comics really very much at all, and when she is in the comics, she\u2019s often a ghost. So it was like, \u201cThis is where we\u2019re going.\u201d I think when she is her best, she is a mentor. That\u2019s what she\u2019s meant to be. So the idea of her as a spirit guide for Billy seemed to be a lovely conclusion to this chapter of her life, while also launching us in a new direction.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  size-large alignnone\">\n<figure class=\"o-figure  lrv-u-font-family-secondary u-color-medium-grey lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-light-grey-tint-two u-margin-b-150 lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1024px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-variety-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/HBT3660_108_comp_BAR_v0021_r709.1024_R.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/HBT3660_108_comp_BAR_v0021_r709.1024_R.jpeg 1650w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/HBT3660_108_comp_BAR_v0021_r709.1024_R.jpeg?resize=150,100 150w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/HBT3660_108_comp_BAR_v0021_r709.1024_R.jpeg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/HBT3660_108_comp_BAR_v0021_r709.1024_R.jpeg?resize=1360,907 1360w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/HBT3660_108_comp_BAR_v0021_r709.1024_R.jpeg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/HBT3660_108_comp_BAR_v0021_r709.1024_R.jpeg?resize=910,607 910w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/HBT3660_108_comp_BAR_v0021_r709.1024_R.jpeg?resize=681,454 681w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/HBT3660_108_comp_BAR_v0021_r709.1024_R.jpeg?resize=450,300 450w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/HBT3660_108_comp_BAR_v0021_r709.1024_R.jpeg?resize=250,167 250w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"683\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-t-1 lrv-u-padding-b-1\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"u-color-medium-grey lrv-a-font-secondary-regular-xs u-margin-b-050\">Kathryn Hahn and Joe Locke in \u201cAgatha All Along.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"u-color-medium-grey lrv-a-font-secondary-regular-xxs\">Courtesy of Marvel Television.<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Was Tommy ever going to appear on the show?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWe talked about it. Were things get hard with ending Marvel shows is like, what\u2019s happening next? Do we have that plan yet? Do we have that casting yet? It gets kind of tricky there. So this was as much of Tommy as we could do for the purposes of this show.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Just so I\u2019m clear on this, it seemed like what happens is that Agatha guides Billy into finding a body for Tommy to inhabit in that moment.<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>In the comics, Tommy is reincarnated into somebody who has a very difficult life. How did you arrive who the kid Tommy inhabits would be and that he would die in a swimming prank gone bad?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWe wanted to hint at, \u201cThis is kind of a rush job, that he finds the closest best body in this moment, and it\u2019s not a good place.\u201d That sequence was written by Peter Cameron. There\u2019s a lot of story economy in setting up the promise of Tommy, who we will hopefully see in a later property. We had to keep it simple. We know that he needs to be about Billy\u2019s age, and it needs to be a death of a young person that is tragic, and we want it to be visual. We thought the drowning in the water would be cinematic, but also afford us the opportunity to obscure him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Like with the finale of \u201cWandaVision,\u201d some fans expected Mephisto would appear in the final episode. Did you ever contemplate doing that?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn my heart, no. I hope this doesn\u2019t upset anyone, but Mephisto has never interested me. But we have an early, early document that included him in a potential antagonist, but I don\u2019t remember ever really taking that seriously. And also, within the MCU, logistically, it wasn\u2019t right for our show. I will say, it was not my intention to toy with anyone with the Mephisto stuff. I think I just continue to underestimate the appetite for Mephisto among the fan base.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>You\u2019ve mentioned future projects \u2014 have you talked at all with Marvel about the upcoming Vision show that Terry Matalas is showrunning about how \u201cAgatha All Along\u201d ends?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNo, I haven\u2019t had any direct conversations, so I don\u2019t know where they are with that. I mean, I wish them well, and I am so excited to see it. I love Paul Bettany, and I love him as Vision.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Some fans have referred to that show as the conclusion of a trilogy about the Maximoff family. Do you know if that\u2019s the intention?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI don\u2019t actually know if that is the plan.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Let\u2019s turn to Nicholas Scratch. His story in the comics is radically different. How did you arrive at what happens to him in your show?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI was really interested in the idea of Agatha\u2019s source pain being something very human, very intimate, and very private. We talked a lot about Agatha, the performer and the liar, and I was very interested in peeling back all of the layers, and then just having the story be, Agatha had a son who did not have power, she loved him and he died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt\u2019s so tragic to me, it takes my breath away. It seemed very daring to do that, that the truth behind everything isn\u2019t some Faustian bargain with Mephisto and Rio, or that Agatha didn\u2019t trade him or kill him. It just was the awfulness of something that people on this planet have to deal with every day. It felt far more powerful.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Was there anything about Nicky\u2019s story that didn\u2019t make the final episode?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWe had this thing of Agatha looking at the camera throughout the show, and we ended up cutting almost all of them out. The idea behind it was we wanted the Nicky sequence to be the only thing that Billy didn\u2019t see, and that Rio doesn\u2019t even know the fullness of \u2014\u00a0 it was Agatha not performing for the first time, but that the audience is let in on it. And in the end of Episode 9, when she says, \u201cThe \u2018Ballad\u2019 didn\u2019t mean anything, it never did,\u201d there\u2019s a lovely moment that Kathryn gave where she looks to the camera to convey that she\u2019s lying, that the \u201cBallad\u201d means everything to her, but for reasons Billy could never understand or imagine. We cut it, because it didn\u2019t work in the larger catharsis of the later moment of [Agatha saying], \u201cBecause I just can\u2019t face him.\u201d But it\u2019s one of my few regrets. I find it so heartbreaking that even then, she pretends like the \u201cBallad\u201d didn\u2019t mean anything \u2014\u00a0but the \u201cBallad\u201d <em>is<\/em> her kid.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>It also seemed like that there was a parallel to the experience that a lot of parents have, where they know when their kid is born that their life expectancy, for whatever reason, is very short, but they don\u2019t know how short. Was that intentional?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI think so. There are people in my life with circumstances like that. [<em>Pause<\/em>.] The MCU world is so enormous, and I feel like with this episode, I was taking advantage of the enormity to bring it back down to a human place, to go against the expectation, and hopefully connect with people through that authenticity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  size-large alignnone\">\n<figure class=\"o-figure  lrv-u-font-family-secondary u-color-medium-grey lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-light-grey-tint-two u-margin-b-150 lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1024px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-variety-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04370_R.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04370_R.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04370_R.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04370_R.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04370_R.jpg?resize=1360,907 1360w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04370_R.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04370_R.jpg?resize=910,607 910w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04370_R.jpg?resize=681,454 681w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04370_R.jpg?resize=450,300 450w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MPY-102-04370_R.jpg?resize=250,167 250w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"683\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-t-1 lrv-u-padding-b-1\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"u-color-medium-grey lrv-a-font-secondary-regular-xs u-margin-b-050\">Robert Lopez, Patti LuPone, Sasheer Zamata, Debra Jo Rupp, Kathryn Hahn, Ali Ahn and Kristen Anderson-Lopez on the set of \u201cAgatha All Along.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"u-color-medium-grey lrv-a-font-secondary-regular-xxs\">Chuck Zlotnick \/ Marvel Studios<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>So Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, who wrote all of the versions the \u201cBallad,\u201d had to have known everything about Nicky in advance, right?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOh, absolutely. They knew it was going to be the \u201cMare of Easttown\u201d version, the Sacred Chant version, the Lorna version performed by the cast, the actual Lorna version, the Nicky version, both a capella and in the tavern, and then the Agatha-through-time version. Abel, our actor, when he starts humming it, we needed a proto-melody, so that it would make sense that he\u2019s finding it. They even wrote that for us.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>How many versions of the song did you have to go through to find the right balance \u2014 since this song has to serve a lot of different purposes at once?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWe had so many versions of the lyrics themselves. I don\u2019t know how much they iterated the melody, because I don\u2019t understand that process, but the lyrics shifted. Also, we had a longer Nicky sequence, where we saw scenes that motivated each of the lyrics, and we cut a lot of that. This is something I learned on \u201cWandaVision.\u201d Sometimes, you discover that you\u2019re actually just patting yourself on the back as a writer, when you\u2019re like, \u201cLook at how all these things line up perfectly.\u201d You can leave things to the audience to piece together themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSo we had, \u201cTame your fears, a door appears.\u201d There was a part of the Nicky sequence where he says, \u201cI\u2019m hungry,\u201d that\u2019s still in the show. But at the end of that scene, she gives him a knife, and he kills the goat offscreen, and then they roast it over a spit, and she sings to him, \u201cTame your fears.\u201d Then she holds the meat out, and he opens his mouth, and she says, \u201cA door appears.\u201d It was super sweet and cute, but it was too much. We didn\u2019t need all of that. As we really got into it, it became an act of surrender. It is about the magical quality of music washing over you, and making sense.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Basically every Marvel Studios project has a post-credits scene, but \u201cAgatha All Along\u201d did not. Why wasn\u2019t there one?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat\u2019s a Marvel decision. I know nothing more than that.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Did you have one in mind?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tYes, I wrote a number of tags, because you always do on every Marvel everything. I love writing tags. I think some of my best writing is in the tags that were never made. I should have a little binder of my tags. They\u2019re so fun to write, because you\u2019re writing the promise without having to deliver on anything. They\u2019re the best. But there are so many things that factor into those. And I was told that we weren\u2019t going to do a tag on this show. That doesn\u2019t affect my work, or my vision for the show.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Is there one tag that wasn\u2019t used that you were particularly proud of that you can tell me about?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tYes. I\u2019ll tell you this one, because it\u2019s been a long time, and so maybe the statute of limitations is up on it. Initially, Doctor Strange was going to appear in the tag for \u201cWandaVision.\u201d It\u2019s Wanda sitting on the porch of that cabin, and she\u2019s rocking peacefully. And you know how Strange can do those circles around someone, and make them go somewhere? The circle starts around her, like she\u2019s going to be teleported somewhere, and she stops it, so Strange has to show up in person. I just loved that so much, that Wanda would be like, \u201cNo, I\u2019m not going to go where you want to teleport me. You\u2019re going to have to come to my door.\u201d It was a good one, but another tag took its place.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Speaking of Wanda, is there anything you can tell me about the status of a Wanda movie?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI know nothing of a Wanda movie, that\u2019s what I can tell you.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>You\u2019ve also hinted that Wanda wasn\u2019t going to appear on \u201cAgatha All Along,\u201d either.<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNo, not in the show, no. The discussion during the rollout is complicated. If I felt it served the watch [of the show] to say, \u201cWanda\u2019s not in the show,\u201d I would have just said that. But it\u2019s my feeling that it then becomes the conversation. I\u2019m not interested in stringing anybody along. If you look at my comments, they were pretty clear that she wasn\u2019t going to show up. But the sort of hardlining it, I think, is no fun. People want to have their theories. I don\u2019t want to spoil anybody\u2019s party. I just want to gently curate it.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Do you know what\u2019s next for you?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI don\u2019t have something lined up right at this moment. I\u2019m trying to figure that out.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-m   \">\n\t\t<strong>Would you want to stay with Marvel, or are you thinking you\u2019d like to go elsewhere?<\/strong>\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI don\u2019t know. What I can say is, I love these characters so much, and more to the point, I love the actors and the team behind these shows. 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