This post contains spoilers for WandaVision
WandaVision’s Dottie actress reveals which decade was hardest to film. Emma Caulfield plays Dottie Jones, one of the Westview residents who are neighbors to Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany.) So far the MCU series has cleverly woven in episodes that are an homage to a decade of sitcoms all while introducing threads of a mystery as to what’s really going on in the town of Westview.
On the surface, Dottie’s first appearance in the 60’s themed episode, “Don’t Touch That Dial,” seems to make Dottie out to be the perfect Stepford wife sitcom trope, with her hair perfectly coiffed and her dominance over the neighborhood women. Wanda’s nosy neighbor Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) tells Wanda that,”Dottie is the key to everything in this town.” Dottie doesn’t take too kindly to Wanda, telling her that she’s heard things about Wanda and Vision. It’s in that moment that FBI agent Jimmy Woo cuts through the radio in front of Dottie and Wanda, and Dottie bleeds red during a black and white episode. There definitely appears to be more than meets the eye when it comes to Dottie. Could she be Westview’s witness protection character that Agent Woo was looking for? The jury’s still out on that question, but as Dottie says during the fundraising meeting, “The devil’s in the details.”
Although Dottie certainly isn’t saying anything, her actress shared some insightful perspective on her experience filming WandaVision. Caulfield revealed in an interview with Comicbook.com what decade she found hardest to film. Check out Caulfield’s answer below.
“I think those first couple, the sixties, were the most challenging because it’s the most foreign you know, it’s so stylistic, it’s so specific. Not just to the shows, it’s modeling itself after the sets that we were on, which are the real sets of those shows you know. It’s sort of, you know, etched in, in sort of the social consciousness… It’s just a very heightened type of the way that they talk, the mid-Atlantic, the way women had to be. And especially the sitcom women, you know sitcoms are a heightened version of reality anyway but those were like extra. So like getting the non, being grounded and yet being this other person and another, you know, there’s just layers. Am I making any sense? I’m just peeling onions all the time.“
Caulfield also said that she liked filming all of the decades. Although she said that the 60’s episode was the most challenging to film, she certainly made it look effortless during her first appearance in the finished episode. The tribute to sitcoms of each decade have added another layer to WandaVision that balances out the dark mystery that seems to be asking to be solved. Dottie did make a brief appearance in the 70’s themed episode, and she does show up in the WandaVision mid-season trailer.
Could Dottie possibly be behind what’s really going on in Westview, or is she just an innocent lost resident like the rest of the town’s people? Hopefully WandaVision will answer this question in the remaining episodes of the series, episodes which showrunner Jac Schaeffer has promised will be a wild ride for WandaVision fans. It will be interesting to see what transpires as the show peels back the mystery.
Source: Comicbook.com
Originally from https://screenrant.com/wandavision-1960s-episode-emma-caulfield-reaction/