Warning: This article contains spoilers for the first episode ofSecret Invasion, “Resurrection.”
Cobie Smuldersknows the drill.
“It’s happened, but also… did it?”
Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill in ‘Secret Invasion’.Des Willie/Marvel Studios
she says to EW as she laughs over Zoom a few days after the show’s debut.
“It looked real to me!”
“It’s so hard because there’s a multiverse,” she says.
Cobie Smulders in ‘Secret Invasion’.Marvel Studios
“I don’t know, I don’t write these stories.
COBIE SMULDERS:Listen, I told my husband.
How did you find out Maria was going to die?
Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders in ‘Secret Invasion’.Gareth Gatrell/Marvel Studios
So I always knew that she was going to, pun intended, take the hit, story-wise.
What was your reaction when you found that out?
What does this mean for your future in the MCU?
Is this Maria’s final appearance?
I mean, I do not make those decisions.
What a great question.
I’m not going to answer it.
[Laughs] Honestly, I don’t know.
I don’t know what they decided to do with the end of it.
What was it like filming Maria’s death?
It was emotional, it was scary.
It was one of the last things that I did.
“Well, that was fun.
It’s really been a magical journey.
Has her trust in Fury really been destroyed that much at that moment?
There’s a lot to process in that final moment.
I think she was able to understand that it wasn’t the real Fury.
There’s a lot going on.
And that’s a hard thing.
What have you thought about the fan reaction to Maria’s death so far?
The biggest takeaway from this whole experience is just being able to meet people who are so excited.
My only hope is that they continue to experience it in a way that makes them happy.
It has been so wonderful to be privy to that key in of energy.
Looking back over your entire history in the MCU, what moment are you most proud of?
Oh God, there’s so many.
That was pretty cool, because it was a real human moment.
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