‘She-Hulk’ Stars Tatiana Maslany Reveals She Was Rejected For Other Marvel Projects Including ‘Venom’

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. Well, this isn’t the first time Maslany has been in the mix for a comic book role. 

During her latest appearance on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast, the Canadian actress revealed she had previously tangled with other potential Marvel Comics roles and highlighted a rejection to play the female lead of Tom Hardy’s solo “Venom” movie, Anne Weying, the lawyer ex-girlfriend of Eddie Brock. 

“I’ve been trying to get them. They’ve rejected me multiple times,” Maslany said of her previous attempts to land Marvel roles. “‘Venom,’ not for Venom, unfortunately, but for Venom’s girlfriend or whatever…There was something else too that did not work out for me.”

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Of course, the part would instead land at the feet of Michelle Williams and would have also featured CGI work as Weying would host the symbiote herself, becoming She-Venom in the “Spider-Man” spinoff. Williams would return for “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” and is seemingly game for another return in “Venom 3.” 

The ‘Attorney At Law’ show’s head writer Jessica Gao (“Rick & Morty”), also revealed a similar experience not too long ago where she had been passed over for at least three other Marvel things until “She-Hulk” came around.

While it’s unknown if “She-Hulk” will get more than one season, there are expectations that Walters could show up in Phase 6 films like “Fantastic Four,” “Avengers: Kang Dynasty,” and “Avengers: Secret Wars” as the heroine is a considerable crossover character becoming an official member of both The Avengers and Fantastic Four. There is also strong speculation that since Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock appears in “She-Hulk,” Maslany could, in exchange, show up in “Daredevil Born Again.” Still, She-Hulk is always an additional budget expense, thanks to the intense VFX, so we’ll have to wait and see.