It’s been a while since we’ve seen Hayley Atwell’s Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (the season two finale of Agent Carter back in March 2016, to be exact), but there’s still a lot of hope that Marvel will bring back the fan favourite heroine for another round of adventures following the cancellation of her solo series.
However, asked about this very possibility at Ace Comic-Con this past weekend, the actress has revealed that she’d be hesitant to reprise the role, unless she was satisfied she wouldn’t just be covering old ground.
“Well, I feel incredibly lucky to have been able to play a beloved character for so long, as is. It’s very unusual,” said Atwell. “I wouldn’t have thought starting off in my career that that would happen. You do one character for however many months and then you go and do the next. So I think it’s an unusual position to be in — it would be very unusual to have the choice to do that again. I think the main thing, though, is if it were — if there were interest in Netflix or in her being in a film or something — that it would have to feel… it would have to feel right.”
“I wouldn’t want to go over old ground,” she continued. “It would have to be new, there would have to be higher production values so she could do more. I’d have to feel like it’s not just, you know, ‘a case a week with Peggy Carter.’ If she’s had an impact on audiences, let that impact grow, so it delights them, but I think it should be to do with more of the current climate now. What are smart issues to bring up? How to create any sort of kind of social weight, an emotional kind of gravitas to the show. So I think on the principle of it, if somebody approached me with it, I would be appropriately kind of tentative about it. Because I would go, ‘well, but, you’ve got to convince me of why we need this, and what for, and how is this a development of the two seasons that we’ve done?’ So that’s more of the question — I’d just want to do something new with her.”
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While a revived Agent Carter series seems off the table, for the time being at least, Atwell did tease a potential MCU return last September, with a social media posting that sparked speculation about a possible cameo appearance in Avengers 4.
Via Comic Book
