Jessica Gao (second from left) and her onscreen iteration Eden Lee (second from right);
“THERE WAS A moment when Kevin [Feige] was going to be played by a puppy,” laughs Jessica Gao, head writer on She-Hulk: Attorney-At-Law, reflecting on the most gloriously bonkers TV finale of the year. In the show’s Season 1 climax, the titular hero didn’t just break the fourth wall — she Hulk-smashed it to smithereens, stopping the episode midway through to storm into Marvel HQ and confront its head honcho. “We also talked about George Clooney or Jon Hamm playing Kevin,” says Gao, “but in the end, this felt right” — “this” being a robot, with whom Jennifer Walters chats about the nature of MCU storytelling. Obviously.