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In the Sept. 1 occurrence of Disney+'s She-Hulk, rapper Megan Thee Stallion gets into an unexpected twerk-off with Tatiana Maslany's Jen Walters. Here's however the cameo came to be.
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This cameo is savage (classy, bougie, ratchet).
Rapper Megan Thee Stallion made her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut successful the Sept. 1 occurrence of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law debut during Sept. 1's episode, appearing as herself. But, the "Hot Girl Summer" vocalist wasn't adjacent primitively slated for the part.
"We didn't adjacent cognize that we could imagination that big," head writer Jessica Gao told Entertainment Weekly. "When we wrote the script, each we knew was we needed to person a pistillate personage who was precise famous, precise successful, and precise beautiful. But we didn't cognize if it was going to beryllium an actress, oregon a model, oregon a musician."
In the episode, Tatiana Maslany's Jen Walters is hired by atrocious erstwhile colleague, who is suing an ex-girlfriend aft helium claims she catfished him into believing helium was dating the "Big Ole Freak" rapper. When Walters wins the case, the camera pans to a smiling Megan, who has been watching the trial.
Gao explained that formed member Jameela Jamil (who plays villain Titania) archetypal mentioned Megan for the episode, arsenic the 2 knew 1 different aft moving on HBO Max's Legendary. And erstwhile she threw the sanction retired there, the formed and unit couldn't get the rapper out of their minds.
"She's cleanable connected truthful galore levels—just arsenic a beauteous young personage who would ne'er day Dennis Bukowski, but besides arsenic a almighty pistillate who embodies a batch of what She-Hulk embodies," manager Kat Coiro said. "As soon arsenic that sanction came up, determination was cipher else."
Turns out Megan loves Marvel, truthful she came connected committee quickly—which was a imagination for prima Maslany, who, arsenic Coiro notes, is "the world's biggest Megan fan." In fact, their post-credits scene—in which the rapper becomes Walters' newest client, and the 2 subsequently get into a twerk-off—only came astir due to the fact that Maslany had been following Megan's vocation since the beginning.
"Tatiana truly wanted a country with Megan, and we saw however amusive that vigor would beryllium and however it would beryllium a missed accidental not to person them connected surface together," Coiro said. "And we besides learned that She-Hulk's a large twerker, which was a astonishment to each of us."
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Maslany revealed that Gao didn't archer her astir the scene until 2 days earlier they filmed it, noting it was astir apt due to the fact that she would "pass out."
"It was a dream," the Black Orphan prima said. "She's specified an astonishing person. She's truthful crippled for conscionable playing."
New episodes of She-Hulk: Attorney astatine Law premiere Thursdays connected Disney+.
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