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Evan Peters surprised fans last week when he made an appearance on Agatha All Along! The 37-year-old actor reprised his WandaVision role as Ralph Bohner for a cameo in a throwback scene with Joe Locke and Miles Gutierrez-Riley. In a new interview, the Marvel series’ showrunner Jac Schaeffer dished on Evan‘s return, how it was always planned, what ideas he brought to the scene and even teased more surprises for the final episodes. Keep reading to find out more… “So, I always knew that, you know, once it was an Agatha show and it was gonna be a spinoff and we were gonna return to Westview, I mean, even before that I was like, ‘If it’s Agatha, there will be songs, there will be costumes, there will be Evan Peters,’” Jac shared on SiriusXM’s The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw. “That was kind of the thing because I love working with him so much and because I thought it was hilarious and we also always had more to his story and still have more to his story, so that was just fun. The fact that he became the kind of the exposition dump, I knew that I wanted to do, in WandaVision episode four is what we call The Rewind where we’re like, we’re in a sitcom and then, ‘Hey, just kidding.’” “I knew I wanted to do that again because that was just way too much fun and the sort of delight in revisiting what you’ve already seen from a new perspective, I love that kind of non-linear double narrative. It’s so thrilling to me, so I knew that we were gonna do that and I think kind of quickly, I think we settled on it being six because we knew the pilot would be the misdirect Mare of Easttown. Kind of its own bubble, and then episode two would be the pilot proper,” Jac continued. “That would actually be the table setting of the show, and then in my sort of internal rhythm, I felt you needed 1, 2, 3 trials before you pull the rug, which similar to WandaVision, you get 1, 2, 3 sitcoms and then you pull the rug. It’s just rule of threes, so then I can’t remember. I wish I could credit one of my writers. I can’t, maybe it was me. I don’t remember how we came up with it that he would be like the avatar of the backstory and we’re geniuses for doing it that way because Evan is one of those rare performers who can deliver on what would be boring exposition and make it like wildly entertaining and also live the real drama of it. He’s truly traumatized, but also make it funny, like it’s so specific, and he brought so much to the table.” She added, “He came up with so many ideas. The witch spray was him. That weird, creepy rattle was him and he was, you know, I mean, he was there for a day. I barely saw him ’cause it just was so fast and he was very in character, but the fans seemed to have really enjoyed it and it’s a secret that we managed to protect so that also felt like a real victory.” There are still three episodes left of Agatha All Along and Jac teased even more surprises are in store! “I mean, I don’t know about a billion, but there are [more secrets], yeah. There are things that, you know, that can’t really be predicted,” she teased. “You know, I think part of the joy for a lot of people who love these shows is the piecing the puzzle together and I think, you know, people do figure things out, but it’s always my design and hope to have something that can’t actually be guessed so that there’s just like, it’s sort of like the way you sort of, you hold, you know, you do Christmas morning and then you hold back one present for around dinner time. It’s like that feeling.” Speaking of Joe Locke, the actor recently opened up about playing Scarlet Witch’s son and his possible future in the MCU.
