00:00This show had so many different titles throughout the process.
00:03Why is Agatha all along the perfect title for the show?
00:06Because she's at the end of every mystery, every lie, every con.
00:12And so, yeah, you can always peel back the layers.
00:15And like, there's going to be some double dealing in there.
00:18Courtesy of this lady.
00:20At what point did you decide to lean into the musical aspect of the show?
00:23From the absolute very beginning, there was no way that we were going to do
00:28an Agatha show without a musical element, given that her song took off
00:32so incredibly in WandaVision and that Catherine's so musical.
00:35And then selfishly for me, I just wanted another excuse to work with the Lopezes.
00:39So I sort of like, yeah, I manipulated the whole situation
00:42in order to get more music out of the deal.
00:45What was the pitch to Patti LuPone to come on board?
00:47Oh, gosh. You know, I was really ready.
00:50I was like, she's going to be so tough. She's going to be so scary.
00:52She is like the nicest, kindest, most lovely woman ever.
00:57And I said, you know, this I said, this is a show about witches.
01:01And she said, well, I am a witch.
01:03And I said, done and done.
01:05Let's let's let's get going.
01:08What sort of famous witches did you pull inspiration from while creating this?
01:12All of them.
01:13That was a lot of our research for this show, some sort of silly witch research.
01:17But we we took it very seriously.
01:18And so it's all the witches from pop culture and and then like,
01:22you know, the legitimate history of witches, especially in this country.
01:27So, yeah, I mean, name one.
01:28And we probably discuss them in the writers room.
01:31The trailer looks very spooky, maybe even a little scary.
01:34Would you say this is Marvel's spookiest or scariest show yet?
01:38I mean, I think that there have been like
01:43Marvel has like dabbled in horror before.
01:45But I think this is certainly I would say I would say spookiest
01:49because I do feel like with the witches and the Halloween of it,
01:53it does feel seasonally appropriate for sure.
01:57WandaVision was so well received and just so beloved.
02:00When you started working on this show, did you feel pressure
02:02to live up to what WandaVision was for so many people?
02:05I did. I mean, in truth, I would love to say, no, no, no, it's no big deal.
02:09But yeah, I mean, I I just you know, fans seemed so satisfied
02:15and like they had had so much fun with WandaVision.
02:17And I wanted to provide that again because that's how I feel.
02:20Like, I want to be delighted by the content that I watch.
02:23And but eventually that sort of fell away because this is a very different show.
02:27And Agatha is a profoundly different character.
02:29And so it was just really about serving her and her story.
02:33How would you say this show is different than WandaVision?
02:36And how would you say that it's similar?
02:38Well, the reason it's similar is is like WandaVision.
02:40It is, you know, more of a puzzle box show.
02:43There's a lot of twists and turns, a lot of mystery, a lot of reveals.
02:47There's a lot of genre pastiche allusions to like familiar pop culture
02:52things. And the ways that it's different is, yeah, it's really spooky.
02:56It's dark. Our our lead is
03:00is not always nice.
03:03And but even WandaVision, I mean, I'm always interested in like
03:07kind of throwing away the binary of the good and evil.
03:09Everybody's got a little bit inside of them.
03:12But but let's be honest, Agatha is a little more evil than she is nice.
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