She-Hulk Star Tatiana Maslany Sets the Record Straight on Avengers Casting Rumors and Her MCU Future
After weeks of online buzz, Tatiana Maslany is breaking her silence on She-Hulk’s MCU future, addressing talk of an Avengers call-up and when she might return. The rumor mill kicked into overdrive last month after a scooper’s now-deleted tweet, and Maslany isn’t dodging the questions.
I know, the She-Hulk rumor mill has been loud lately. Tatiana Maslany heard it too, had some fun with it, and then gave an answer that somehow clarified nothing and everything at the same time.
Where the rumors came from
- Quick refresher: Maslany starred as attorney-turned-green-hero Jennifer Walters in Marvel's 'She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,' which hit Disney+ in 2022.
- Last month, scooper MyTimeToShineHello posted a now-deleted tweet claiming Marvel wanted She-Hulk in a big way for 'Avengers: Secret Wars,' but that Maslany had no interest in working for Disney. The tweet also floated two supposed backup plans if she did not return: remove She-Hulk entirely or recast her.
- Another account, The Beyond Reporter, piled on with: 'It seems Tatiana Maslany no longer works for Marvel.'
Maslany responds... with jokes
On the Comedy Bang Bang podcast, Maslany leaned into the chaos with a full-on sarcastic bit, pretending to confirm the rumor before hilariously undercutting it. She riffed that Disney approached her to play She-Hulk again and she said no, tossed off a gag about being mad and let it spiral into a tongue-in-cheek rant about 'woke feminist stuff,' even mocking the idea of casting a woman as She-Hulk. It was obviously a joke, and very much her poking at how breathless and messy this discourse gets.
Pressed for a straight answer
Entertainment Tonight then asked if there was actually any truth to her turning down a She-Hulk return. Maslany kept it playful and noncommittal.
'You’ll never know. I don’t know. Do you know?'
When ET followed up about whether there are more She-Hulk stories to tell, she pointed to the decades of comics, from the 80s through today, and noted they are still being written. Translation: the character has plenty of runway if and when Marvel wants to use her.
The read on where things stand
Right now, nothing is official. The rumors claim Marvel wanted She-Hulk for 'Avengers: Secret Wars,' and they also claim Maslany does not want to work for Disney. Maslany, for her part, is joking about the whole thing on a comedy podcast and dodging definitive answers in interviews. Until Marvel or Maslany actually announce something, it is just online chatter, a couple of bold claims from scoopers, and a very good deadpan from the person at the center of it.