Warning: This article contains spoilers forWandaVisionepisode 9, “The Series Finale.”
Was itreallyAgatha all along?
And were we ever going to see Fred Melamed’s Mr. Hart again?
Kathryn Hahn in ‘WandaVision’.Marvel Studios
The final episode, released March 5, answered (almost!)
all those questions while also raising a few new ones.
So EW spoke toWandaVisiondirectorMatt Shakmanto get some answers.
[Laughs] I laughed so hard when I read that interview.
But it was great!
What was the most memorable scene you shot for the finale?
The most memorable, of course, is the goodbye scene between Wanda and Vision.
It’s where the show has been leading the entire time.
It’s the inevitable acceptance of Vision’s loss, saying goodbye to him for the last time.
So that for me is the emotional highlight.
I think it was pretty clear from the beginning that that’s where it needed to go.
I think the best ones are.
Did filming during the pandemic affect the story at all?
It made it more challenging, for sure.
So when we came back to it during the pandemic, we had done a lot of that groundwork.
It’s direct continuity.
It’s written by Megan McDonnell, who was one of the writers onWandaVision again, huge continuity.
And Teyonah will be going off to star in it.
And it’s the same withDoctor Strange.
We talked to [director]Sam Raimi.
You guys also had the luxury and maybe anxiety of going first.
You have to set everything in motion for everything that’s coming down the line.
Our obligation was to tell the best story we could tell about Wanda and Vision.
Is there any world in which you would be interested in returning for a season 2?
It’s the Marvel universe, so who knows what’s to come.
We did set out to tell a satisfying and complete story, and I think we hopefully did that.
So who knows what the future will bring.
Were there any scenes you shot or anything you left on the cutting room floor?
Iread that there was something in the finaleabout Agatha’s rabbit, Senor Scratchy.
Yeah, there’s always little things that get cut.
That was a longer scene that we ended up losing.
We shot it, but it was pretty early on that we had to pivot away from it.
Ultimately the story is Wanda and Vision’s story, and we didn’t want to derail that.
Are there any Easter eggs or references that you really love that people may have not necessarily caught yet?
There are a lot of eagle-eyed fans out there!
It’s hard to say.
We did the same thing with all the props.
The design of the magazine and all the ads reflect that era.
The newspaper, theWestview Gazette, goes throughout time as well, and everything is just about Westview.
There is no world outside.
If you’re in Westview, that’s it.
