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After revealing she has been diagnosed with MS, WandaVision prima Emma Caulfield said she volition inactive look successful the upcoming spinoff, Agatha: Coven of Chaos. Find retired what she shared.
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Emma Caulfield is not letting her diagnosis specify her.
The actress, champion known for playing Dottie, the neighbour of Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) connected WandaVision, and Anya Jenkins connected 5 seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from 1998 to 2003, revealed she was diagnosed with aggregate sclerosis successful 2010.
"I woke up 1 greeting and the near broadside of my look felt similar determination were a cardinal ants crawling connected it," Caulfield told Vanity Fair Oct. 4. "That feeling erstwhile you've sat successful a presumption excessively long?"
Caulfield revealed that an acupuncturist suggested she get an MRI to cheque connected things, so she did. The results came swiftly.
"I had a missed telephone from the doctor's office, truthful I called back. I'm conscionable like, 'What's up?' I had 5 minutes down oregon whatever," she said. "And helium was like, 'You person MS.' Just similar that. It was similar an out-of-body experience. I'm like, 'No, that's not possible.' I'm like, 'What are you talking about?' He was precise substance of information astir it."
While Caulfield has continued moving since her diagnosis, the moving conditions connected WandaVision made things other difficult.
"The vigor was unbearable," she said. "And I was feeling each inch of that. I got truly weak. I conscionable went into endurance mode and I retrieve having to beryllium outside….It was conscionable unfortunate timing, really. But I was very, precise uncomfortable and nary 1 knew. I said nothing. And I paid the terms for that."
Caulfield yet told WandaVision showrunner Jac Schaeffer astir the MS, who she is reuniting with connected the upcoming WandaVision spinoff Agatha: Coven of Chaos, starring Kathryn Hahn.
"I americium going backmost to work!" Caulfield exclaimed. "Everyone has been notified that needs to beryllium notified. I can't enactment myself done what I did with WandaVision again. I can't bash that. They did thing wrong….They had nary thought what was going connected with me. They didn't inquire thing of maine that was like, 'I request to telephone my agent!' They're asking maine to conscionable beryllium and chat and bash my dialogue. It's not hard."
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While details connected the spinoff stay scarce, Hahn did code rumors that the bid volition invited storied Marvel villain Mephisto into the fold.
"I support proceeding that. I person nary idea!" she said connected The Drew Barrymore Show successful November. "Who knows. Probably thing is astir apt possible, but I person ne'er heard thing definitive astir that astatine all."
Whatever happens, we're thrilled Caulfield volition beryllium on for the ride.
Agatha: Agent of Chaos is expected to premiere sometime successful 2023 connected Disney+.
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