Kathryn Hahn Talks Aubrey Plaza’s ‘Charging’ Scenes, Mare of Easttown Tribute (VIDEO)

Disney+ First Trailer Agatha all the time clearly referred to HBO Easttown Marefeaturing the title character, played by Kathryn Hahn, as a small-town cop reflecting on a grim murder scene.

Well, what if we told you that just like WandaVision imitated classic sitcoms, most of them AgathaThe first episode of the sequel is a riff on the aforementioned drama with Kate Winslet?

“AND Love prestige, female-driven crime drama,” Hahn shares with TVLine in the above clip when asked about the homage. “The lead detective, the strong woman with the past… That lead — Broad Church that’s another thing I’m fascinated by — it just seemed so right and perfect” as a basis for the launch of a Marvel series.

Premiere on Wednesday, September 18 at 9:00 p.m. with the first two episodes Agatha all the time finds her titular sorceress feeling depressed and disempowered after a young goth called “Teen” (Heart stoppingJoe Locke (TV series) helps her free herself from the spell cast by the Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff at the end WandaVision.

Agatha is heartened when Teen asks her to take him on the Witch’s Path, a legendary route of trials where, if she survives, a witch will receive what she lacks.

To brave the Path of Witches, Agatha must gather, The Blues Brothers-style, a group of other wizards including Patti LuPone’s Lilia Calderu, Jennifer Kale Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn Alice Wu-Gulliver, and Debra Jo Rupp’s Sharon Davis (formerly “Mrs. Hart”) WandaVision).

Also entering the mix is ​​Rio Vidal, played by Aubrey Plaza, who is a specific — and possibly lesbian…? — reference to Agatha’s past.

Plaza was of course the star Parks and recreation as April Ludgate, while Hahn guest-starred in later seasons as Jennifer Barkley’s campaign manager, “but we’d never (really) shared a scene together,” Hahn notes in a Q&A video, “so that was our first time getting our teeth into something.”

Much like her very different dynamic on Locke’s Teen, “the chemistry was just there” with Plaza, Hahn marvels. “We didn’t have to think or talk too much about what we were going to do… We felt supercharged every time we did a scene together, which was exciting.”

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