{"id":578681,"date":"2026-08-24T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578681\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:58:08","slug":"hayley-atwell-agent-carter-death-complete-disservice-to-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578681\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Atwell: Agent Carter Death “Complete Disservice” To Character"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHayley Atwell<\/a> was disappointed about the demise of Peggy Carter.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview at the For the Love of Fantasy & Sci-Fi convention in London, Atwell told attendees that she was frustrated by Captain Carter\u2019s storyline in 2022\u2019s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.<\/p>\n

\n\tCameoing in the film as an alternate to Captain America, Carter \u2014 an MCU fixture since 2011 \u2014 was apparently killed off by Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) with her own shield.<\/p>\n

\n\tAtwell said: \u201cIf I\u2019m really like brutally honest, I was so disappointed with how they positioned her and what happened to her in that scene. It\u2019s so small, and she gets frisbeed to death.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actress said she pleaded with colleagues on set to make changes to the scene. \u201cI tried on set to kind of go, \u2018Can I just add? Can I just suggest?\u2019 And they were like, \u2018Sure, but no.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued: \u201cI felt that was like a bum steer and a complete disservice to the character.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAtwell, who is expected to return as Carter in Avengers: Doomsday later this year, said the character was having \u201cfun\u201d in the Captain Carter guise \u2014 and she hopes for more of the same. \u201cI hope maybe one day in the future they\u2019ll give her more in that capacity,\u201d she teased.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s not the first time Atwell has discussed her misgivings about Carter\u2019s cameo in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2023, she told the Happy Sad Confused podcast: \u201cWhen she was like, \u2018I could do this all day\u2019 and then followed by she\u2019s immediately cut in half by a frisbee. And the audience being like, \u2018She can\u2019t do it all day. Apparently you can\u2019t, so, egg on your face.\u2019 That doesn\u2019t really serve Peggy very well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier in the For the Love of Fantasy & Sci-Fi interview, Atwell revealed that she uses Carter\u2019s line \u201cI know my value\u201d in her contract negotiations with Marvel<\/a>. \u201cIf I\u2019m able to say these lines with conviction, I\u2019ve got to embody them myself,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayley Atwell was disappointed about the demise of Peggy Carter. In an interview at the For the Love…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6004,156,183154,2528,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-578681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-entertainment","tag-hayley-atwell","tag-marvel","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}