Tatiana Maslany Teases 'Like 20' 'She-Hulk' Alternate Endings

Actress Tatiana Maslany is opening up about the ending of the "She-Hulk" Disney+ Marvel series and the possibility of an alternate ending.

In addition to a "more serious" ending that she filmed for the live-action series, Maslany revealed that there were "like 20 versions" of the ending that writers had discussed before they decided to have Jen Walters break the fourth wall.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Maslany opened up about the season finale, revealing that she and head writer Jessica Gao discussed "all kinds of different ways" that they wanted the show to end.

"Jessica and I talked about the ending a lot because tonally it could have gone in all kinds of different ways," Maslany said. "Jess said that there were like 20 versions of it. I never saw 18 of those versions, but I did see two: the one that we went with and then one that we shot prior."

Maslany said that the alternate ending was "very different, a little more serious, and less like Jen's version of it." The alternate ending featured a lot more of She-Hulk and was reported to be "way too expensive," which is why it was scrapped. Maslany also said that the "serious" alternate ending had a "different strategy" to it, adding, "The thing that I love about this one is that we get back to Jen feeling like K.E.V.I.N.'s her collaborator and like an equal, and that her ideas deserve respect. Even sitting down on the ground and asking about the X-Men is like, 'We're buddies now,' you know what I mean? Something about that feels very Jen, and feels very funny."

The 37-year-old actress had nothing but positive things to say about the ending of "She-Hulk," adding that she was "thrilled" they got to film it.

"I couldn't believe we got to do it," Maslany said. "Because it's the kind of writing, it's the kind of dismantling that I get so excited about as an actor and as an audience member, and as a creative person. It's the stuff that I'm most interested in. It's such a huge moment and it requires so much clarity of idea, because it really is Jen speaking her direct truth about herself."

"It's the moment when she is articulating that things aren't good enough, that this isn't what she wants or deserves, and to name that, you have to know yourself really well," she continued. "So it took a while to find it, but Jess always had that idea and it was always going to destroy things and at the same time build things again."

The Canadian actress said that the scenes where Jen broke through Disney+ and actually walked into the writer's room were her favorite part of the season. "It was so fun," she recalled. "We shot it at different points during the series, so it was with varying levels of feeling connected to what this show was and finding the tone of it. It just felt so revelatory to be walking through the Burbank Disney lot in my mo-cap suit being like, 'This is a character for the show that is being written in that room.' It was super fun and meta."

She also added that everything she said in the writer's room was scripted and not improv, as some fans had initially speculated. "The only improv element of it is that on the day, I think Jessica and Zeb [Wells], the writers, were both launching [alternate lines] at me," Maslany explained. "They would throw an alt at me or we would try this alt or we would ask K.E.V.I.N. this question."

The one alternate line that was written on the spot while filming was when she asks, "When are we getting the X-Men?" as she winks at the camera. "The X-Men question was one in a series of alts where that was the one that made it in," Maslany explained. "But I definitely did not improvise it. The only thing I think I improvised was sitting on the ground, but other than that, it was all Zeb and Jessica."

"She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" is available to stream on Disney+.