From the moment that Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) publicly transforms into She-Hulk, she has to deal with trolls.<\/p>\n
Marvel’s \u201cShe-Hulk: Attorney At Law\u201d immediately and irreverently leans in to social media and toxic masculinity, to the obsession with women’s bodies and existence that seems to relentlessly haunt men online.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the show first came out, I was getting these really awful, mean, troll messages,\u201d recalls series director Kat Coiro in a post-final Zoom interview with IndieWire. \u201cJust terrible things, ‘You should die’ and awful words \u2014 and as the series has progressed, that has started to go away, because we address the trolls. The trolls are the villains. I think these people realize that when they are doing [that]they’re playing right into our hands.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always knew we were going to come under attack because that’s what happens to women in this world and this ethos,\u201d she added. \u201cSo it’s been fun to kind of go, ‘Yeah, we knew you were gonna say mean things to us, and we put you in the story.’\u201d<\/p>\n There was also the initial debut of She-Hulk herself: Maslany with CGI green skin and wavy hair, portrayed by 6’5\u201d body double Malia Nahinu. Early responses to the trailer and series had a lot to say about She-Hulk’s look, but those sentiments have faded during the series ‘nine-episode run.<\/p>\n \u201cThere’s a shock to her,\u201d Coiro said. \u201cWe have never seen a VFX character that looks like this, so people had to take a little time to digest her. Now that they have, I’m so happy that we’re just talking about the elements of the show and not her body, because that’s kind of the whole point.<\/p>\n \u201cAs negative as it can be, it is connection,\u201d Coiro added of the negative feedback. \u201cIt is people feeling passionately about something, and if we can take that and turn it positive and go, ‘Oh, this really is fun,’ then I feel like we’ve done a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n Steering a conversation that way \u2014 and steering online trolls away from harassment \u2014 is no easy task, nor is it one that the \u201cShe-Hulk\u201d team set out to explicitly accomplish. But it comes with the territory of having a female superhero (still a rarity in Marvel), that is also associated by name with an established male hero. When Jen talks about managing her anger and being taken seriously, these aren’t new problems caused by being a Hulk, but everyday realities she already faces.<\/p>\n \u201cI always wanted to make sure they were undertones,\u201d Coiro said. \u201cI’m not making a show that has feminist messaging directly, but it’s a part of the story and it’s part of the story because she’s a woman navigating the world\u2026 It’s not so much that that’s the main point of the show, but because the show is told by a lot of women, we all brought our individual stories to the table.\u201d<\/p>\nRelated<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n
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