Marvel’s ‘WandaVision’ Adds Kat Dennings, Randall Park, Kathryn Hahn

By Brett White @brettwhite
Published Aug. 23, 2019, 10:00 p.m. ET

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Disney+’s WandaVision just keeps getting weirder in the best ways. The Marvel superhero show starring Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda Maximoff) and Paul Bettany (Vision) was already a strange one to begin with, considering the fact that Vision is still dead. And then there have been all the vague teases tying the show to classic sitcoms like The Andy Griffith Show and, in a sizzle reel screened at the Disney+ Showcase at D23 in Anaheim, The Dick Van Dyke Show. That particular reel made it seem like the Avengers’ first couple will be an ominous riff on Rob and Laura Petrie.

But the sitcom vibes make more sense when you see the cast members announced at the D23 panel, al of whom have legit sitcom cred. As revealed by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, Kat Dennings, Randall Park, and Kathryn Hahn will join Bettany, Olsen, and the previously announced Teyonah  Parris in the cast.

Dennings and Woo will reprise their roles as supporting players in the MCU. Dennings played Darcy Lewis in the first two Thor films and Park played S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jimmy Woo in last summer’s Ant-Man and the Wasp. Hahn will play a new, not yet revealed character; all we know is that Feige said she’s playing the stock “nosy neighbor” sitcom character.

All three of these actors have had big parts on major sitcoms. Dennings was co-lead of CBS’ Two Broke Girls, Park can currently be seen on ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat, and Hahn stole scenes in a recurring role on NBC’s Parks and Recreation.

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They weren’t the only new actors added to the casts of the Marvel shows. In addition to formally announcing that Emily VanCamp will return to the MCU as Sharon Carter in next year’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Feige also brought out Lodge 49 lead Wyatt Russell and introduced him as John Walker, a character known in the comics as the hard-headed, at times antagonistic Captain America stand-in U.S. Agent. Looks like Anthony Mackie may have some competition for Cap’s shield!

And all that’s not even counting the three new TV shows that Marvel announced during the panel: Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, and Moon Knight. No actors have been announced for those series yet.

WandaVision debuts on Disney+ in Spring 2021, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier debuts in Fall 2020.