Although she is practically a carbon copy of Marlene in the comics, Layla El-Faouly is a character created exclusively for the television series. moon knight, introduced as the wife of Marc Spector. However, as revealed by the writer Jeremy SlaterSpector was almost paired with another Marvel heroine.
Apparently the series almost included a romance between Moon Knight and maya lopez / Threw outthe character played by Alaqua Cox in Hawk Eye which will soon have its own series.
Back then, Echo was going to be our love interest, based solely on the fact that they knew that Marvel liked the Echo character and were trying to find a show to put her on. But in the end it didn’t work for the story we were telling. And they said, ‘You know what? We’re going to have that Hawkeye series and we felt like it would be a much better fit there.’ And we said, ‘Oh, thank God.’