'She-Hulk' Producers Respond to CGI Criticisms, Defend Marvel's VFX Artists

This week, Marvel’s launched its latest series, “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law,” a much more comedic riff on their superhero tales. While the early VFX in trailers had audiences worried, by the time the show hit the air, it mainly had hit the mark.

Jon Burlingame editorFantasy films and television have been the basis for some of the most memorable scores in history, and more are on display with the debuts of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” this week and “House of the Dragon” on Sunday.Disney+ and HBO are, for the most part, keeping a lid on music until the shows premiere, but Variety got a preview of both from the composers themselves.“I feel like every composer wants to, at some stage, write that big action-adventure score and get to work with an orchestra,” says Amie Doherty, composer of “She-Hulk,” the Marvel series with Tatiana Maslany as a lawyer who can also turn into a giant green-skinned super-being.Doherty, the Irish-born composer who recently scored the animated “Spirit Untamed” and orchestrated many episodes of “Star Trek: Discovery” and “The Umbrella Academy,” has secretly been toiling on “She-Hulk” for the past year. The challenge, she says, was finding a central theme that she could apply to both sides of the character, along with creating music for the “really quirky characters” who are her clients.

Marvel’s “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law” debuted this week on Disney+ and introduced Tatiana Maslany into the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing Jennifer Walters, aka, She-Hulk, the lawyer cousin of Bruce Banner.

Chris Evans isn’t spilling the beans on Captain America’s sex life.

SPOILER ALERT: This podcast contains details of the first episode of She-Hulk: Attorney At Law that debuted today on Disney+.

Ginger Gonzaga and Jameela Jamil are two of the female forces behind the new MCU series,, and they couldn't be more thrilled to be a part of the girl-powered project!«It feels really good to have so many women in front of the camera and behind the camera in control, in power, having their opinions heard,» Jamil tells ET ahead of the Thursday premiere of the new Disney+ series. «And also, it's a really interesting story!» stars Emmy winner Tatiana Maslany as the titular Marvel hero, aka Los Angeles attorney Jennifer Walters, who inadvertently receives her transformative Hulk strength after becoming infected with her cousin, Bruce Banner's (Mark Ruffalo), gamma-radiated blood.

Disney+ Thursday, addressed pop culture’s infatuation with heroes being super muscular, telling Entertainment Tonight she loves “She-Hulk” because “she represents a different body and a different perception from the outside.”“I think that there’s a cultural obsession with the certain physique that goes along with these movies sometimes,” Maslany, who plays lawyer and She-Hulk herself Jennifer Walters, said. “I certainly fell prey to that idea, and I definitely don’t think it’s a thing that we should be pursuing because it’s just these weird standards that none of us can actually keep up with unless we’re going to the gym 1,000 times a week.”The 36-year-old, who has appeared in “Orphan Black” and “Parks and Recreation,” said that she loves her character since “how people see her is so much a part of her story.”“That to me is really exciting conversation that can happen around this, which is: How do we look at someone differently depending on the body that they inhabit?” she said.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterThe first day Kat Coiro met with Marvel Studios to discuss potentially directing episodes of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” was the same day the world shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic.“So, you know, there was a little pause,” she tells Variety.

Tatiana Maslany is finally joining the MCU as one of the most powerful female heroes in the comic universe – and yet, it’s the humanity of Jennifer Walters, aka She-Hulk, that she finds most relatable.

As its title suggests, She-Hulk: Attorney At Law is a subversive delight.

Tatiana Maslany is finally joining the MCU as one of the most powerful female heroes in the comic universe — and yet, it's the humanity of Jennifer Walters, aka She-Hulk, that she finds most relatable.The Emmy winner spoke with ET ahead of the Aug. 18 premiere of the new Marvel/Disney+ series, , and opened up about what she found so appealing about the role.«I was laughing on every page and I found it so relatable and kind of embarrassingly human,» Maslany says of the show, which is, structurally, more of a lighthearted legal comedy with an MCU twist. «That, to me, is where some of the great comedy comes from -- these very real characters who are, like, on this backdrop of a huge Marvel universe.»In keeping with the meta tone of some fan-favorite comic runs, sees its protagonist frequently breaking the fourth wall to speak directly to the audience -- another unique storytelling device for the Marvel narrative — and also deals with the «mundane and small» moments of her life, like online dating, in contrast to its epic, MCU-level action.«That collision of superhuman and just, like, regular dude is really fun,» Maslany shares.

reports Newsweek. A picture of the bench shows the armrests as well as a billboard featuring the She-Hulk, played by Tatiana Maslany, as well as a quote reading “Superheroes need a super lawyer!”Fans, however, did not find the bench so super or heroic, with some taking to Twitter to slam Disney over the use of the armrests.“Why does the she-hulk bench have anti-homeless architecture,” wrote one angry user.

You probably hear this every time a new Marvel TV show comes out and you break out in a rash of cynicism: “it’s the best Marvel series ever” or “it’s the best new Marvel series since…” It’s a rain of praise and deluge of enthusiasm every time a new Marvel series hits. Yet, the reality is, so far, Marvel’s had a wobbly time on television.

There were superheroes aplenty at the Los Angeles premiere of Marvel’s latest Disney+ entry, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Tatiana Maslany, who plays the green-tinted title character as well as her civilian persona Jennifer Walters, was front and center alongside her onscreen cousin Mark Ruffalo — who, of course, reprises the “Professor Hulk” version of his character.

Tatiana Maslany is sharing how her latest character is different from other Marvel heroes. ET's Matt Cohen spoke to the 36-year-old actress at the premiere of  on Monday, and she praised the Disney+ series for how it promotes a different type of body than other superhero projects.«I think that there's a cultural obsession with the certain physique that goes along with these movies sometimes,» Maslany tells ET.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterWhen veteran TV writer and producer Jessica Gao (“Rick and Morty”) first came into Marvel Studios to pitch about She-Hulk — i.e.

Jameela Jamil is willing to suffer for her art. The actress got into some serious stunt work and action sequences for her role in and wound up hurting in surprisingly uncomfortable places.Jamil spoke with ET's Matt Cohen on the red carpet at the premiere of at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood on Monday, and the actress dished on how much stunt work she had to do while playing Titania — a social media influencer with super-human strength who ends up a rival to the titular She-Hulk, Jennifer Walters.«Oh, I did it all! I did it all,» Jamil said of her involvement with the action scenes and stunt sequences. «I was hurting in place that I really didn't know exists.»Like, you'll probably have to bleep this out, but I pulled a muscle in my a**hole," she added. «I didn't know that was possible!»According to Jamil, she learned «jiu jitsu and kung fu and combat in the air.»«I don't know how much of it ever gets to make it to the big screen, because CGI is bonkers,» she added.