‘She-Hulk’ Head Writer Says That K.E.V.I.N. Was Almost Played by a Real Guest Star ‘Like George Clooney’
thewrap.com“She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” Kevin Feige is actually K.E.V.I.N., an artificial intelligence bot. The show wasn’t always planned to end that way, though.In the episode, now streaming on Disney+, we find Jennifer Walters back at Emil Blonsky’s retreat, hoping to escape from the havoc that Intelligencia wreaked on her life.
As it turns out, Intelligencia is having their own retreat at the lodge, with Abomination as a guest speaker. Naturally, all hell breaks loose when Jen stumbles into their meeting, interrupts Todd on stage — because, as many people guessed, he was HulkKing — and is informed that he stole her blood to give himself Hulk powers.But before things can get too crazy, Jen herself stops the action by breaking the fourth wall — literally.
In an homage to the Jack Byrne run of the comics, where She-Hulk tries to rip through the pages because she’s angry about the story, this time Jen breaks through Disney+, traveling to Marvel Studios to take it up directly with Kevin.
Only, in this universe, Kevin is actually K.E.V.I.N. — or Knowledge Enhanced Visual Interconnectivity Nexus. But according to head writer Jessica Gao, she and her team did consider making Kevin a real person, just in an equally absurd way.“Initially, my first pitch was that, when she finally got to Kevin’s office, we would stunt cast it with a handsome, debonair actor, like George Clooney,” Gao told TheWrap. “And he’d be in a tuxedo holding like a glass of scotch, and that would be Kevin.
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