Kathyrn Hahn Reveals the Moment She Found Out About ‘Agatha All Along’

With just a few weeks to go until the debt of Agatha All Along, Kathryn Hahn is reflecting back on her Marvel journey.

Hahn burst onto the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) scene in 2021’s WandaVision, playing the series’s (surprise) antagonist, Agatha Harkness.

When WandaVision ended after just one season, Hahn was not sure if she would ever play Agatha again. What she did know, however, is that she wanted to continue working with showrunner Jac Schaeffer.

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“I remember [WandaVision head writer and Agatha All Along showrunner] Jac Schaeffersaying ‘God, I’d love to write for you again.’ We both kept saying, ‘we have unfinished business’ to each other at the end of WandaVision,” Hahn told Rolling Stone.

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“I didn’t know if it necessarily meant something in this world or somewhere else, but our minds melded. I loved her point of view and her sense of humor. And this character just felt very easy.”

Getting the Call

While filming Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, however, Hahn got a call that changed everything.

“Then over the summer, when I was in Serbia shooting Glass Onion, the Knives Out movie, I got a call from [Marvel Studios co-president] Louis D’Esposito saying, ‘How’d you like your own Marvel show?’ — a call you never get,” she recalled.

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“My heart was pounding. I could barely understand what he was saying. I knew what it meant, but I just kept finding ways to minimize it for myself until the first day of shooting. Someone had put a sign on the window of my trailer that said, ‘welcome to your first day on your very own Marvel show’ and I burst into tears. It was very, just very exciting, especially with a character that you just love and just want to explore every nook and cranny.”

Kevin Feige Pitched ‘Agatha All Along’

Interestingly, it was Marvel boss Kevin Feige, not Schaefer, who originally pitched the Agatha series.

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“I wanted to stay in the WandaVision universe because it felt like there were a million stories still to tell,” Schaefer said. “In everything I did it would be, like, ‘And then Agatha pops up!’ At some point, Kevin said, ‘Should it just be an Agatha series?'”

With Agatha All Along continuing to expand the world of WandaVision, it appears as if Hahn will have a major presence in the MCU going forward. And to think, it all started with a phone call.