Hayley Atwell Keen On Peggy Carter-MCU Return

Before Marvel Television was dismantled and absorbed into Marvel Studios, the small-screen content creator had a bit of a hit-or-miss trach record, with misfire like Marvel’s Inhumans, as well as notable hits likes Daredevil and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. However, the short-lived series Agent Carter is perhaps their most fondly remembered effort. Hayley Atwell reprised her role as the British superspy that she first played in 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger, and showed that smaller characters from the films could shoulder stories of their own.

And while the Peggy Carter-centric show was canceled after only two seasons, Atwell has returned several times, most prominently as the Captain Carter-superhero variant of Peggy in the animated What If anthology series, and later in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Audiences were pleasantly shocked by the appearance of Captain Carter from an alternate universe, though it would prove even more short-lived than her namesake series, as she was brutally taken out when Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) literally cut her in half with her own shield. Even so, Atwell is clearly game for more, recently talking about the role with Digital Spy, commenting that:

“It was definitely not, you know, the trajectory that I see for Peggy. I would definitely like her to have more to do. It depends on what Marvel and what the audiences want. I’m a custodian of her. Compared to the rest of my career and everything I’ve done or my stage work and doing Mission: Impossible now and all the diversity of roles I’ve played, and the diversity that I get to explore, and to be able to play more complex roles and villains and lots of different things – she is not mine anymore. She lives in a world of people that have taken her into their heart. And that’s beautiful. But it’s kind of like: yeah, you can’t control the impact a particular role has on the rest of the world.”

Whether or not Hayley Atwell gets the chance to return to the MCU as Agent Carter is currently up in the air, though a role in the second season of What If? has already been announced.