The following contains spoilers for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Episode 9, "Whose Show Is This?," now streaming on Disney+.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law creator and head writer Jessica Gao recently revealed that she tried and failed to convince Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige to cameo in Episode 9, "Whose Show Is This?".
Gao confirmed that Feige does not voice the A.I.-powered machine K.E.V.I.N. during the episode's fourth-wall-breaking finale in an interview for ComicBook.com's Phase Zero podcast. "That is not Kevin [Feige's] voice, that is a voice actor we hired," she said. "We campaigned very hard for Kevin to do the voice and he refused." Gao added that Feige also had issues with the design of K.E.V.I.N, as well: "The pre-vis team had already started mocking up all types of versions of K.E.V.I.N. They all had a little black baseball cap on top. Real Kevin says, 'You can't have the… It doesn't make any sense for a machine to wear this baseball hat.' I was like, 'Kevin, this is the problem you have with all of this?'"
Despite Feige's reticence to directly participate in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Episode 9, he was nevertheless a big supporter of its metafiction-heavy ending. Gao openly credits the Marvel Studios boss with encouraging her to break away from the established Marvel Cinematic Universe formula and develop a finale that felt more true to her. "[Feige] really opened my mind to the idea that it's OK to not do that because I was trying to do what I thought was the Marvel expectation of what the show had to be," she said.
She-Hulk Creator Unpacks the Show's Shocking Finale
In the same interview, Gao also explained why the She-Hulk: Attorney at Law finale breaks the fourth wall so much more dramatically than previous episodes in the series. The head writer said that this is because Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) was previously willing to play along with the events of the show because this was how she believed her story was supposed to unfold. However, by Episode 9, Walters comes to the conclusion that those in charge of telling her story "[don't] have her best interests in mind" which motivates her to confront them.
She-Hulk's encounter with K.E.V.I.N. isn't the only surprise in store for fans in "Whose Show Is This?", either. The episode also marks the MCU debut of the Hulk's son, Skaar, who is portrayed by Wil Deusner. Skaar only appears in the episode briefly, arriving late to the Walters family BBQ alongside his superhero father.
Source: ComicBook.com