Tatiana Maslany Explains That Cliffhanger In The Daredevil Episode

Tatiana Maslany Comments on She-Hulk Finale Backlash

When She-Hulk first started, its lead character, Jennifer Walters, was so sure this Hulk thing was easy. She had just started out, yet she was basically a natural at everything her cousin, Bruce Banner, was trying to teach her. Well, now that mindset has caught up with her.

In the final moments of the show’s Daredevil-featured eighth episode, Intelligencia ended up crashing her big Lawyer Gala Awards Event by trying to shame She-Hulk in front of everyone she knows. Needless to say, she gets angry—very angry.

One can’t really blame her. What those children were doing is awful through and through; she had every right to get upset. But, with her being a Hulk, that can lead to some bad consequences for those around her.

Well, now the star of the series, alongside its directors, has sat down and explained how Jen’s happy Matt Murdock ending got spoiled by the stalker group.

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Tatiana Maslany Explains That Cliffhanger

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law star Tatiana Maslany and directors Kat Coiro and Ana Valia discussed the shocking final events of episode 8 following Daredevil’s special guest appearance.

Tatiana Maslany Explains That Cliffhanger In The Daredevil Episode
Tatiana Maslany

Corio explained how they took “very relatable experiences” and put them on a character who is “able to defend herself” in ways women usually are unable to.

Anu Valia, the director of episodes 5, 6, and 7, added how she believes that “female rage is very deeply explored on the show:”

“The rage of just feeling that people can take your power from you, that you have no agency when you deserve so much more, that’s definitely— female rage is very deeply explored on the show… you would think that when she becomes Hulk she really lashes out, but when she’s just Jen, she knows what it feels like to have power, and now [she] doesn’t have it. I think that was a really smart decision to be able to play with that.”

Maslany then added how initially she’s able to deal with becoming her bigger, greener self “because she’s spent her entire life being angry or afraid,” which helped make the transition easier:

“Initially, she’s sort of confidently able to deal with [becoming She-Hulk] because she’s spent her entire life being angry or afraid, so that transition into She-Hulk is effortless,” Star Tatiana Maslany continues. “It doesn’t have a bunch of torture in it. It doesn’t have a bunch of violence in it. It’s clean because that’s how she’s learned to deal with her emotions.”

Tatiana Maslany Explains That Cliffhanger In The Daredevil Episode

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Even though she did last out in rage by the end of the Gala, Maslany reminded that her anger at that moment is “massively justified:”

“I always wanted to remind all of us that this moment where she is so angry is massively justified. It’s only because of the outward perception of that anger and how it looks from the outside that it looks monstrous. Of course, she’d want to go after this guy who just publicly humiliated her. Of course.”

Coiro hopped back in, talking about how they were “always being conscious of what the main themes [were]”

Maslany pointed out how she loved how the series built toward this “deeply intense and moving” endgame within a series of comedic stories and goofy moments:

“To feel like you could have control over how people perceive you, I think that’s true… Jen thinks that she can be in control of this thing that is ultimately way outside of her control. I just knew that we were weaving a story within highly comedic, goofy moments that was leading to something deeply intense and moving and political and all of it.”

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Tatiana Maslany Explains That Cliffhanger In The Daredevil Episode
Tatiana Maslany in Emmy

Let the Anger Flow

Audiences knew it was only a matter of time before Jen came at odds with the anger that comes with being a Hulk. After all, lack of control does tend to be a Hulk’s Achilles heel.

Even if her rage is justifiable, there’s no denying it can end up hurting those around her—something that nearly happened when she ripped the screen apart on stage. So she might need to pick her cousin’s brain just a little more.

However, despite anger being a very dangerous emotion for a Hulk, it can also be their greatest weapon. Given the confidence Jennifer Walters exuded in that opening episode, if she can channel the anger she claims to feel constantly, then she could be quite powerful.

Though, if she’s not careful enough, she’ll become the savage She-Hulk before she knows it and loses all control—putting her more in line with her cousin’s former rage monster.

After all, there is potentially a World War Hulk film brewing.

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is now streaming on Disney+.

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