Maria Hill Actress Cobie Smulders Reveals Marvel Didn’t Tell Her About That Skrull Twist
Did Cobie Smulders know she was playing a Skrull? The Maria Hill actress reveals that Marvel hid one of the biggest twists from her while filming Spider-Man: Far From Home.
Plenty of shocking moments filled the minutes of Spider-Man: Far From Home, but perhaps none moreso than the reveal that Maria Hill and Nick Fury had secretly been Skrull agents throughout the film. This left fans excited for (and primed to be disappointed by) the possibility of a Secret Invasion storyline. However, according to Cobie Smulders, Marvel never told her about the twist until filming had already wrapped.
“I wasn’t really me. I didn’t know that until the end, until we had finished shooting,” Smulders explained during a recent panel at Terrificon 2024. “[Marvel Studios] let me know. They were like, ‘Just so you know, we were gonna do this thing. They wanted me to play it [normally]. Even if I knew the whole time, I think we still would be playing the reality of the day-to-day.”
Cobie Smulders would be far from the only actress that Marvel has lied to over the years. However, given how monumental the Skrull reveal was at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home, it’s interesting that they didn’t even clue her in to the idea that she was playing a different version of Maria Hill. Though givent he character’s future in the MCU, it may have been best she got to play an authentic version of the character one last time.
Could Cobie Smulders Return As Maria Hill?
Marvel’s decision to kill off Cobie Smulders’ Maria Hill in Secret Invasion has gone down as one of the most controversial in all of the MCU. While fans expected her to potentially end up as a Skrull, there was some amount of hope that one of the most iconic agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would come out on the other side of the Disney Plus series unscathed.
Following her death in the Skrull-centric series, many have wondered if there’s a chance Marvel could retcon her fate so she could return in the MCU. Cobie Smulders clearly has a good relationship with the studio, with her having reprised her role as Maria Hill in the animated show Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. However, it seems an actual live-action comeback for the character has been left on the cutting room floor.
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