‘She-Hulk’: Series Creator Jessica Gao Reveals She Was Rejected By Marvel On Three Other Projects

Megan Thee Stallion is following up her acting debut on Starz’s P-Valley with a cameo appearance in Marvel’s She-Hulk: Attorney At Law.

reported by The Cut, which profiled the H-Town lyricist for her latest album, “Traumazine.” Of the part and her forays into acting, she said, “I don’t feel like I’m only going to be an actress — I feel like I’m also going to be a director and I’m also going to be a producer,” adding that she looks up to Queen Latifah and Ice Cube’s paths toward Hollywood.Reps for Disney+ did not immediately respond to request for comment.“She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” follows lawyer Jennifer Walters (Maslany), whose job as a specialist in superhuman-oriented legal cases gets thorny when she accidentally transforms into a green 6-foot-7-inch superpowered hulk. The nine-episode, fourth-wall-breaking comedy sees her attempt to balance a regular 30-something life with her perceived responsibility as a hero.

*Be warned there are minor spoilers ahead for “She-Hulk”* While Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner is indeed part of Marvel’s new “She-Hulk” series, he’s not the focus of the Disney+ show. And the creators of “She-Hulk: Attorney Of Law” want you to know that.

In a debut season of nine half-hour episodes, Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany stars as attorney Jennifer Walters who also just so happens to be Bruce Banner's (AKA the Hulk's) cousin.

“She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” Episode 2 just smashed onto Disney+ and with it came a titillating new mystery to go along with the already-thrilling adventures of Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany), our favorite super-powered attorney.As we found out in the first episode, Jen is Bruce Banner’s (Mark Ruffalo) cousin and as such can handle extreme amounts of gamma radiation, even after being infected with her cousin’s blood following a car accident. (More on that accident in a minute.) And Episode 2 further explored this dynamic, in a fun and surprising way.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses plot elements from Episode 2 of Marvel Studios’ “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” currently streaming on Disney+. Mark Ruffalo barely hesitated when Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige and co-president Louis D’Esposito asked him if he’d be willing to appear on the Disney+ series “She-Hulk: Attorney at Large” as Bruce Banner and his giant green alter ego, Smart Hulk. During his interview with Variety, Hulk’s future within the Marvel Cinematic Universe seemed to be weighing on Ruffalo’s mind. The 54-year-old has been playing the character since 2012’s “The Avengers,” when he took over the role after Edward Norton parted ways with Marvel Studios following 2008’s disappointing “The Incredible Hulk.” Since then, Hulk has fought alongside Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) — all of whom have since departed from the MCU. Ruffalo’s Banner, however, has thrived, tussling with Thor on the trash planet of Sakaar in 2017’s “Thor: Ragnarok,” melding his Banner and Hulk selves into Smart Hulk in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” and welcoming Shang-Chi to the MCU circus in the post-credits scene of 2021’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.”

This week, Marvel’s launched its latest series, “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law,” a much more comedic riff on their superhero tales. While the early VFX in trailers had audiences worried, by the time the show hit the air, it mainly had hit the mark.

“She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” which just debuted on Disney+, is arguably the most delightful Marvel Studios series yet. Created by Jessica Gao and starring Tatiana Maslany as the lawyer-turned-superhero, “She-Hulk” is effervescent and refreshing, a balmy tonic after the darkness of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and other, more somber Marvel Studios productions.

Marvel’s “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law” debuted this week on Disney+ and introduced Tatiana Maslany into the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing Jennifer Walters, aka, She-Hulk, the lawyer cousin of Bruce Banner.

MCU character, Captain America, isn’t a virgin.The actor, who has played Captain America across 12 separate Marvel films, was responding to chatter around a scene in the new MCU series She-Hulk: Attorney At Law in which the sexual experience of Captain America, aka Steve Rogers, is confirmed by his friend The Hulk, aka Bruce Banner (played by Mark Ruffalo).It has ended fan speculation about if and when Captain America lost his virginity before returning to the past to find his true love Peggy Carter. It’s a decision that Captain America makes at the end of Avengers: Endgame.In a mid-credit sequence on She-Hulk, which premiered Thursday (18 August) on Disney+, The Hulk says Rogers lost his virginity on a USO Tour.She-Hulk, played by Tatiana Maslany, says to her cousin Bruce Banner that Captain America was too busy saving the world to have sex.Banner responds: “Steve Rogers is not a virgin.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterTatiana Maslany knows from playing multiple roles on the same TV series. From 2013 to 2017, she embodied over a dozen clones on the sci-fi series “Orphan Black,” and won an Emmy for it in the process.On the new Marvel Studios series “She-Hulk: Attorney at Large,” however, Maslany tackled a new challenge: Transforming from the capable-if-neurotic Los Angeles lawyer Jennifer Walters into her green, six-foot-seven alter-ego known as She-Hulk.

SPOILER ALERT: This podcast contains details of the first episode of She-Hulk: Attorney At Law that debuted today on Disney+.

As its title suggests, She-Hulk: Attorney At Law is a subversive delight.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticNo one is more annoyed by the derivative moniker of “She-Hulk” than Jennifer Walters, aka She-Hulk herself. In a stark departure from her brooding cousin Bruce (“Avengers” veteran Mark Ruffalo), the lawyer turned reluctant superhero (played by “Orphan Black” star Tatiana Maslany) approaches her life with a winsome grin and “let’s get this over with!” sigh.

There were superheroes aplenty at the Los Angeles premiere of Marvel’s latest Disney+ entry, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Tatiana Maslany, who plays the green-tinted title character as well as her civilian persona Jennifer Walters, was front and center alongside her onscreen cousin Mark Ruffalo — who, of course, reprises the “Professor Hulk” version of his character.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterWhen veteran TV writer and producer Jessica Gao (“Rick and Morty”) first came into Marvel Studios to pitch about She-Hulk — i.e.