Cobie Smulders opens up about Maria Hill’s future after SecretInvasion: “There is a multiverse now, so anything is possible. But I’m pretty sure this is it.”
From the moment she was offered a role inknew she’d be saying goodbye. She’s held on to the twist for well over a year—fashioning “a whole shuffle-step dance” at press events, carefully talking around her fate inwithout giving anything away. Now she can at last discuss it, and breathes a palpable, slightly melancholy sigh of relief in her first interview. “Finally it’s out there,” she tells me over Zoom. “I’ve been well trained—yeah, I’ve had to keep secrets.
Spoken like a true Marvel veteran. Smulders has been part of the MCU machine for more than a decade, going back to her first appearance in 2012’s original’s SHIELD director, Nick Fury. The sharp, levelheaded, analytical character popped up in many more movies as the MCU’s mythology evolved and its heroes came and went; eventually, she became one of the last Phase One figures standing.
Hill dies at the end of the series premiere, which is set in Moscow. She’s reunited with a weathered Fury as they prepare to stop Gravik and his team of rebel Skrulls—shape-shifters who’ve invaded Earth and can take on the appearance of any human. An attack against Fury and his allies in a town square culminates in Hill getting shot by a Skrull who’s taken on the appearance of Fury.
We’re now firmly in the era of multiverses and time-jumps, so question one: Is Hill really dead? “I mean, I didn’t know I was an alien in“There is a multiverse now, so anything is possible. But I’m pretty sure this is it.” During our conversation, Smulders speaks of Hill’s fate with a certain finality, having made peace with the fact that this is likely the end. “It felt and it feels strange,” she says. “Maria Hill’s passing is very real, and it’s shocking, and it feels very human.
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