Author: Charlie Ridgely / Source: Marvel
Jeph Loeb introduces show runner Joe Pokaski and actors Ally Maki, Emma Lahana, Aubrey Joseph, and Olivia Holt. The panel begins with a highlight reel showcasing the events of the first eight episodes of the series.
Loeb asks Pokaski about the relationship between music and the show and he admits that he writes the soundtrack into the script most of the time.
“For coming of age stories, this is how you move it along.”Lahana is asked about the character of O’Reilly. She figured out what character she was playing when she got the first script and she read comic books in her trailer to help prep for her character’s origin.
Maki talks about her first day on the show being sent straight into the swamp on her first day. “To be in the Marvel Universe and to be an original character as an Asian-American woman is just a dream come true.”
Loeb admits that you can’t “manufacture chemistry” and he says that the two lead characters hadn’t been cast when they were three days away from the start of shooting. That Friday night, Aubrey Joseph and Olivia Holt got into a room together and the rest was history. Joseph jokes that he was going into college and trying to get into a fraternity when he learned that he had got the part so he had to leave in order to take…
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