SecretInvasion’s Cobie Smulders discusses her history and future with the MCU, working with Samuel L. Jackson, and more.
Editor's note: The below interview contains spoilers for Episode 1 of Secret Invasion.Marvel's Secret Invasion series premiered this week on Disney+, and already the first small-screen installment of the MCU's Phase Five has proven that it's here to raise the stakes.
COBIE SMULDERS: Well, there's relief, and there's pride that I didn't leak it. Like, how did we manage to do that? Yeah, I'm glad that it's out. I have to say thank you to Collider because I don't really go online very much and read stuff, but Collider wrote a really lovely article about Maria Hill before all of this, and my sister-in-law sent it to me, and it really made me feel good about her, so thank you very much.
We've had over a decade with your character, since her first introduction to the MCU. Did you ever feel like there was a point when Maria wouldn't survive a previous installment? Did you ever get a script and think, “Is this going to be the movie where I have to say goodbye?” SMULDERS: Oh, yeah, I kind of had to, especially with the relationships and especially with the stakes, which is always such a fascinating thing to come up with every production. "Well, the Blip happened, so is that the worst-case scenario, or is this as bad of a scenario?" I've always had to create this backstory for her and also be aware of the fact of...
SMULDERS: Working with Sam is really a gift, and, certainly, we've gotten to spend a lot of time together, but he's also just a really giving, present person. Going back to what I was saying about the stakes conversation, some of my favorite moments with Sam were like, “OK, so, how are we here? What has transpired?” I remember a very long conversation we had at the beginning of Spider-Man: Far From Home because we kind of opened that movie driving in. "We Blipped out.
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