{"id":748355,"date":"2026-08-24T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748355\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:36:15","slug":"atwell-on-marvels-captain-carter-disservice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748355\/","title":{"rendered":"Atwell On Marvel&#8217;s Captain Carter Disservice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/atwell-on-marvels-captain-carter-disservice.jpg\" data-caption=\"Marvel\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/atwell-on-marvels-captain-carter-disservice.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"atwell-on-marvels-captain-carter-disservice\"\/><\/a>Marvel<\/p>\n<p>Hayley Atwell has once again spoken about her disappointment with the way her Captain Carter character was handled in Sam Raimi\u2019s \u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u201d film.<\/p>\n<p>Carter played the character, a spin on her Peggy Carter MCU role, in the animated \u201cWhat If\u201d anthology series to much acclaim.  She then brought it into the live-action realm with the \u201cDoctor Strange\u201d sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble is the appearance, like several others in the film, was merely a cameo that saw the character introduced and then quickly killed off by Elizabeth Olsen\u2019s Scarlet Witch.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the For the Love of Fantasy &amp; Sci-Fi convention in London (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DcZSCEVxAHU\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frances in London<\/a>), Atwell discussed her frustrations with what happened:<\/p>\n<p>If 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.  I tried on set to kind of go, \u2018Can I just add? Can I just suggest?\u2019 And they were like, \u2018Sure, but no.\u2019 I felt that was like a bum steer and a complete disservice to the character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atwell is expected to return as the more regular Peggy Carter in \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d later this year but does say she hopes to bring her Captain Carter guise back on the screen at some point: \u201cI hope maybe one day in the future they\u2019ll give her more in that capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/paramount-settlement-early-talks-cancelled\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount Settlement Early Talks Cancelled<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/the-gentlemen-season-2-official-trailer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Gentlemen\u201d Season 2 Official Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel Hayley Atwell has once again spoken about her disappointment with the way her Captain Carter character was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-748355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}