Marvel Studios premiered the first two episodes of Scarlet Witch and Vision on Friday. The study promised something very different from what had been done so far and they have succeeded. The series starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany is the MCU’s highest-rated content on Rotten Tomatoes. Scarlet Witch and Vision is made with an overall score of 97% and an 82% audience share. One of the highlights of the first two episodes is that it has a live audience and actor Paul Bettany tells what the experience was like.
Scarlet Witch and Vision stands out for its sitcom look. But at the same time, the audience can realize that everything is not as ideal as it seems. The first episodes of the season take inspiration from The Dick Van Dyke and the trend of the time to use a live audience. Director Matt Shakman wanted to incorporate this aspect into Scarlet Witch and Vision to make it more realistic. But Paul Bettany wasn’t entirely enthusiastic at first.
The actor tells in an interview with Variety that he was quite scared when he learned that Scarlet Witch and Vision would be filmed with a live audience. A trend that has fallen into disuse with the passage of time and that Paul Bettany was not very convinced with would work for Scarlet Witch and Vision. The actor reveals that Matt Shakman managed to convince him and he finally enjoyed the experience. He comments that he also manages to capture the essence of this type of series and that the cast was satisfied with the result.
“It was pretty scary at first. He was quite reluctant to record in front of a live audience. But Matt was right. Matt made us do it. It helped us get that kind of quality acting that those kinds of shows had. Because those series feel like they have a live audience because they effectively have a live audience. You start to forget about the cameras and only act because of the laughter from the audience. And at the end of the episode, Kathryn Hahn, Lizzie and I, and even Teyonah [Parris] – bless her, she came to see us because she wasn’t in the first episode. We all looked at each other and thought ‘I think this is what the series is.’
In the third episode of Scarlet Witch and Vision, we are transported from black and white to color and from the 60s to the 70s. The next episode takes inspiration from The Brady Bunch series and will continue until reaching the 2010 era with Modern Family. Elizabeth Olsen tells Variety that as the series progresses, the humor will become more cynical.
“The humor of Malcom in the Middle and later Modern Family becomes very cynical and that’s what we like, for whatever reason, as a society. So it was fun when we were training, not just looking at physical changes as objects, but thinking ‘What was a comedy for this time in history?’ Like the fact that The Brady Bunch is the result of the Vietnam War or that the Seed of Evil is a movie and Brady Bunch is a TV series. That didn’t make sense to me. But for whatever reason, that’s what the audience saw from home.”