Wanda Sykes Wants To Be In A Marvel Show

Since she is one of the only famous Wandas in Hollywood, apparently comedian and actor Wanda Sykes has had her share of half-serious inquiries about when she is going to pop up in WandaVision, Marvel Studios’s new TV series for Disney+ that centers on the relationship between The Vision and Scarlet Witch. Her answer, essentially, is that she would like to know that, too. Like most working actors, she would love a chance to pop up in a Marvel franchise — although she made it clear during an appearance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live that she would not be able to pull off some elaborate, uncomfortable costume.

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“That’s the question I want answered: when am I gonna pop up?” Sykes joked. “I want to be in a Marvel show.”

Asked what franchise she might want to pop into, Sykes replied, “I mean, come on, Black Panther seems a little too obvious, but I think I would fit there. I just want my character to wear comfortable shoes. I don’t even have to fly-fly. Just a little bit off the ground, just let me hover. That’s all I need.”

You can see the video here.

It’s hard to come up with many characters who just hover, but we’re certain there’s somebody in the archives if Kevin Feige wants to task someone with finding a hilarious cameo for Sykes in some future project. Actually doing it would one-up the “Sinbad in Shazam 2” joke that David F. Sandberg did at DC FanDome.

Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany appear together in WandaVision. The series, which looks to be a departure for Marvel, taking an unconventional tone and playing with TV conventions, is the first new content set in the shared Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home. This will also be the first onscreen appearances of Scarlet Witch and The Vision since Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War, respectively, with The Vision’s death at the end of Infinity War informing much of Scarlet Witch’s personality in Endgame. A new generation of Marvel content is rolling out in 2021, with several TV series featuring cast and characters from the movies debuting on Disney+. Black Widow will debut in theaters in May.

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