Patti LuPone Reveals Her 'Agatha: Coven of Chaos' Role (And Others) During A Visit To 'The View'
With the 'WandaVision' spinoff still filming, the season of the witch has yet to conclude
Patti LuPone might have just become a Tom Holland. For her appearance on Tuesday’s The View, the Tony-winner came armed with details about her role in the upcoming WandaVision spinoff Agatha: Coven of Chaos.
When her casting for the upcoming Disney+ series was originally reported in December, there were strong speculation and beliefs as to what her role would be, but it was vague and generic. She was going to be “a witch”. And a witch she’s playing indeed. After all, the Coven of Chaos needs to be populated by enough witches to be a substantial group. But she’s not going to be just any witch, she’s Lilia Calderu. In the comics, the character, described as “hot… really hot… got a great body and hair” by LuPone as she described her research, has quite the tense history with Baron Mordo, having been seduced by him and bore a daughter, Astrid. She is eventually killed by one of his gargoyles while on a Book of Cagliostro retrieval mission, as it is her duty to maintain after generation upon generation in her family had. She debuted in 1973, and LuPone described her onscreen iteration as “a 450-year-old Sicilian witch whose power is divination and whose trial is tarot."
The stage and screen legend had no idea that Marvel’s world was so proliferated with witches. Or much about the Marvel world in general. She reveals the coven includes series star Agatha Harkness, played by the triumphantly-returning Kathryn Hahn, Aubrey Plaza, and Joe Locke from Heartstopper as the coven’s Familiar. This is the most detail anyone’s gotten about the show, at least regarding new characters. Emma Caulfield Ford and Debra Jo Rupp are also reprising their roles from WandaVision, while Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, and Maria Dizzia have all been cast as new characters with no real detail known about them.
Filming isn’t over yet, but LuPone has all but guaranteed that both feet are on the 2024 side of the calendar. Jac Schaeffer, who created WandaVision, is writing and executive producing for this series as well.
Source: Entertainment Weekly