WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer recently explained why building the set for Wanda and Vision's home around the fireplace was so important.
"You know, we looked at Norman Lear and we looked at you know, workplace sitcoms like The Office, and then other sitcoms like, you know, Cheers and that kind of thing, where there's like a communal gathering and fairly quickly it was like, we need the home base," Schaeffer revealed during a new episode of Entertainment Weekly's The Awardist podcast.
She added that the show's creative team wanted viewers to feel like they were actually inside the home, explaining, "And so that that was an early discovery, you know, in the very beginning. And then obviously, when [director Matt Shakman] came on, it became, 'How are we physically going to do that?'"
"Yeah, I was gonna say we get we designed everything really around the television and the fireplace," Shakman confirmed. "And all of those sets to the era had the same floor plan, which was gathered around -- the family gathered around the TV and fireplace."
During the same conversation, Schaeffer also shared that the idea of setting the series within the world of classic American sitcoms came directly from Marvel President Kevin Feige.
"It was, it was his idea to marry Wanda and Vision with the history of sitcoms, he is a Nick at Night type of guy," Schaeffer explained. "And he, you know, based on this very long history in the comics of Wanda and Vision in various domestic suburban spheres. He thought those two things would go together."
She added that, when she signed on to the series, she saw the sitcom trope as a great way to unpack and explore Wanda's traumatic past and its connection to her reality manipulation powers. "But once I came on, then it became, you know, which sitcoms and how to structure it, how to move through them," she continued. "Like what's the device that propels it forward, and early on, we decided family sitcoms and aspirational families that comes as well."
Written by Jac Schaeffer and directed by Matt Shakman, WandaVision stars Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Paul Bettany as Vision, Randall Park as Agent Jimmy Woo, Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau and Kathryn Hahn as Agnes/Agatha Harkness. The series is available to stream on Disney+.
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