A Marvel Actor Didn't Know What The MCU Was When They Joined Their Disney+ Series

While there used to be only the vaguest of connections between the movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Marvel TV shows that ran concurrent with it, that all changed with the MCU shows on Disney+. There is no doubt that they officially figure into the MCU timeline, making even actors who only appear on one of those shows official members of the MCU. Recently, actor Emily Hampshire was welcomed into that ever-growing club of MCU actors when she joined the cast of the upcoming Disney+ series "Vision Quest," which is said to be not only a follow-up to "WandaVision" but also "Agatha All Along."

There was just one small problem when Hampshire first learned she'd be part of the MCU: She had no idea what that actually meant. Certainly she was aware of Marvel movies and TV shows, given that she is a human being that has lived on planet Earth over the last 20 years. She probably even heard or read the acronym "MCU" a couple of times. But that doesn't mean she knew what it stood for. She told etalk, "When I first got this job, which I couldn't talk about for a year, which was very difficult, my lawyer had said to me: 'Oh, now you're in the MCU'. And I had to look up what MCU meant." 

Once "Vision Quest" hits Disney+ and she makes her debut as E.D.I.T.H., nobody will be asking what happened to Emily Hampshire after "Schitt's Creek" anymore. Joining the MCU definitely becomes a significant part of an actor's legacy once they've made that leap. And although some actors treat being in the MCU like any other job and don't feel the need to do a deep dive into the rest of the films just because they are playing MCU characters, that is not the case with Hampshire.

In that same etalk interview where she revealed her initial MCU ignorance, Hampshire quickly pointed out that she didn't stop at simply learning what the letters in MCU stand for. She explained, "Now I'm fully immersed. I've watched all the movies. I didn't know much about the MCU before. Now I know everything." Given how many actors have mixed feelings about being in superhero movies, and how some can't be bothered to know anything deeper than what their particular character has to say and do, it's refreshing when an actor goes all in and still gets excited about joining this universe and learning its history.