Marvel LIVE! at NYCC 2016 Part 1

Legion Press | New York Comic Con 2016

October 9, 2016

Stars Jeremie Harris and Katie Aselton join Executive Producer Lauren Shuler Donner to reveal more about "Legion," coming soon to FX!

[Archived Copy]

## Transcript

Buddy Blake:  Hey everybody.  Buddy Blake with Marvel.com here with the rest of the cast and the creative mind behind legion.  Welcome.  I know you were saying you just got off a plane last night.  You were shooting yesterday, like, I’m sorry to be bothering you guys.

Katie Aselton:  You should be.  You should be so sorry.

Lauren Shuler:  Haha, really.  What were you thinking?

Buddy Blake:  How much sleep did you get?

Katle Aselton:  On Friday into Saturday, nothing.  We shot until 4:30, 5:00 in the morning.  And then we got picked up at 6:00 to go to the airport.  So we all slept on the plane  But the great thing was that it is was like a scene that we were all in, so we were all in the same boat.  Like, no one is rested.

Jeremie Harris:  Yeah, yeah.  It was like a camaraderie of being at the airport like at like 8:00 in the morning and no one slept and we’re like, ‘yo, we’re like a team’  we’re just here.

Katie Aselton:  And then there was like Goran Visnjic on the plane who was like just gorgeous and wide awake and we’re like ‘sorry dude, you’re on a different show’.

Lauren Shuler:  Yeah, obviously.

Buddy Blake:  You’re for, you’re going to do a signing at the Marvel booth, you’re going to do a panel, you’re going to show the first couple minutes of…

Katie Aselton:  We’re going to show the first half.

Lauren Shuler:  First 20 minutes.

Buddy Blake:  Wow.

Lauren Shuler:  Yeah.

Buddy Blake:  What prevents you, can make it out of the con, can you say anything about what you’re gonna see, or…?

Lauren Shuler:  You’re going to see the first 20 minute of the pilot.  An uh, you know.

Katie Aselton:  And if you’re not here, then you should have come.  That’s, bummer on you.

Lauren Shuler:  Yeah, I mean…

Jeremie Harris:  Yeah.  We miss you.

Buddy Blake:  I want to say, too, it’s an honor, being, standing next to you. You’ve done amazing work.  What’s it like for y’all to like, I mean, she knocks it out of the park with everything she does, so it’s just almost like, easy for you guys.  You’re gonna have a hit on your hands.

Jeremie Harris:  Well, we hope, right?

Lauren Shuler:  It’s really Noah Hawley.  Noah created this so he gets all the credit.

Buddy Blake:  But the things you find, like, everything you touch kind-of turns to gold.

Katie Aselton:  It’s the combining, though, of two great worlds.  That, I don’t think anyone could have anticipated, you two teaming up, You know?

Lauren Shuler:  Yeah, really.

Katie Aselton:  So, for us as actors, like, it’s the most exciting thing to be a part of what, like watching what they do together.

Lauren Shuler:  Well that’s what makes it fun.  I mean, look at, when Ryan and I started X-men we went to Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.  Now, you wouldn’t think of them for comic book movies.  But that’s the way we wanted to go, so to me this is just continuing in that path.

Buddy Blake:  And I know with it being attached to Marvel, Marvel is extremely secretive.  Can you say anything about your characters at all?

Katie Aselton:  My name is Amy.

-laughter-

Jeremie Harris:  My name is Ptonomy.  I remember things.

Katie Aselton:  And I am, uh, I am someone’s sister.

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Buddy Blake:  Wow, that…

Lauren Shulerr:  You can, I think you can say that.

Katie Aselton:  I’m David’s sister, I’m the, I’m Dan Stevens’ character’s sister.

Buddy Blake:  Awesome.  And how much of the subject matter from the comics is part of the series?

Lauren Shuler:   It’s, It’s not.  I mean, don’t expect the comics to be put on screen.  This is a much more creative flight coming from the comics.  We just, Noah whipped up a story and it’s much more, uh it’s very different.  It’s magic to him.  It still has the, you know, the demon inside and the tolerance issues, but It’s a whole different story.

Katie Aselton:  Wouldn’t you say it’s like how he reimagined Fargo?  Where, like, Fargo is it’s own thing and it can’t be recreated.  The Coen brothers did it beautifully.  So you can’t recreate or rebuild the X-men franchise.  This is just, um, inspired by it and influenced by it.  You’ll feel threads of it in there, for sure.  But he’s definitely, like, created his own quilt.

Lauren Shuler:  Exactly.

Billy Blake:  Kind-of touching on the Fargo thing, like, I mean, FX just keeps knocking it out of the park.  Marvel’s, we’re doing okay.  You know, like, the two together.  Kind-of talk a little on that, because that’s the thing that’s most exciting for me is just seeing both worlds kind-of come together like that.

Lauren Shuler:  Yeah, it’s interesting.  They are, they’re..and we work together really well, by the way.  Umm, FX is about, all about it’s creators and nurturing those, and giving those people like Noah creative freedom to do their thing.  And Marvel has been very encouraging in that level.  You know, really helpful and umm, yeah, it’s a good marriage.

Buddy Blake:  Well, we’re very excited.  Welcome to the family.  Thank you for joining us.