While Marvel fans still don’t know who Joe Locke plays Agatha has always— His character’s official name is “Teenager,” though speculation has narrowed it down quite a bit — Heartache Breakthrough is very confident in what he brings to the table Wanda Vision spin off. In a new interview, he talked about playing a queer character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and what it means to him personally and professionally.
Rock said in an interview with Variety Agatha has always It made him less worried about being typecast as a gay character because the characters he played were so complex and multi-faceted. “The show has never shied away from his queerness, but it’s not a defining characteristic of his character,” he told Insider. “It’s just one layer of who he is as a person.”
Elsewhere in the article, Agatha Harkness herself, Katharine Hahn, recalls how impressed she was with Locke’s self-awareness shortly after she began working with him. “He corrected me early on because I said, ‘These witches and this gorgeous wizard,'” she recalled to Variety . “He said, ‘No, we are all Witch. It really stuck with me.
Although Locke believes that starring in the Marvel series is “the most pinch me He’s also prepared to face naysayers — even other members of the LGBTQ+ community — who Agatha has always The trailer suggests that his performance as a “teenager” (or whoever he ends up becoming) will be a “contrived gay stereotype.” He explained why it wasn’t for him.
“It really pissed me off because I was like, ‘You can’t ask for real casting and then be frustrated if you have a camp character’…I’m totally aware that Marvel fans are far less Hello Marvel fans. Heartache Fandom,” he said. “There’s going to be a lot of people who hate everything about this character and everything I’ve done with it, and I’m just going to have to accept that.”
if Agatha has always Including musicals, as rumored, Locke’s dramatic talents will come in handy; earlier this year, he starred in Tobias Ragg – following stranger things‘ Gaten Matarazzo – in the Broadway revival Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Agatha has alwayscreated by Jac Schaeffer and also starring Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, Patti LuPone, Debra Jo Rupp, Emma Caulfield Ford and Aubrey Plaza (“Black Widow”, “WandaVision”). The series will run for a total of nine episodes and will premiere two episodes on Disney+ on September 18.
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