She-Hulk director wanted to make a sex-positive show that kids could also watch
A history of breaking the fourth wall gave Marvel and Disney Plus’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law permission to break pretty much any rule in the established MCU. But what truly opened doors for the creative team, series director Kat Coiro tells Polygon, was Tatiana Maslany’s take on Jennifer Walters, the hustling lawyer under She-Hulk’s gamma-irradiated green skin. Jennifer was decidedly not larger than life — at least not in human form. And without a ticking-clock evil-villain premise pushing her in every direction, Marvel got to explore superherodom in a totally unique way.
“The thing I always loved about the show were the smaller moments and being able to see a superhero coming home and kicking her shoes off after a long day at work,” Coiro says. She cites Ant-Man as one of her favorite Marvel movies, simply because it has the “little kind of peeks at normal life.” And while Coiro was thrilled to stage Daredevil hallway fights and the momentary season finale brawl between Hulk, HulkKing, Abomination, and She-Hulk (which she reveals, thanks to a loopy schedule, was the first scene she actually shot for She-Hulk), she was excited to take the series to uncharted places in the MCU — specifically, the bedroom.
“We always felt like there was a fear around sex and around the idea of sex positivity,” Coiro says. “So it was our job to keep having the conversation. We wanted to say, Look, she’s a woman in her 30s navigating modern life; sex is a part of that story,and [ask] how far could we go.” Maslany was game to take the character there. “I know it’s something that’s very important to her, this idea of sex positivity and kind of smashing the rules when it comes to women and the way that they’re perceived. A lot of the
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