When Kate points out a “Hawkeye” in Times Square posing for photos with tourists, he glances over and corrects her: “That’s Katniss Everdeen.” In the new series, Hawkeye feels like he’s been relegated to a second-tier Avenger, neither front-and-centre in the musical nor in life. She remembers her first meeting with Renner, who has played Hawkeye five times on the big screen, as well as in the Disney series What If…? “I realize looking back now that … he knew that regardless of what I had done in the past, this was going to be something unlike what I had ever experienced before. I wanted to have … those same qualities.” She’s hyper focused and overly excited and overeager and such an overachiever. And this is a character who is very ready at all times. “But really it was about mentally and physically getting to a place that I felt I could show up for this character … and have anything thrown my way and not be intimidated by it but be ready. “Watching any of the films, how do I consider that work?” she says. But getting up to speed wasn’t that hard. Steinfeld, 24, would have been just 12 when the Marvel Cinematic Universe kicked off with Iron Man in 2008. And adding a bunch of action on top of it – car chases and bow and arrows and all that – makes for a good time.”

And so I think finding that balance of lightheartedness and depth is always a challenge, but fun nonetheless. She continues: “It’s rooted in the reality of the tragic events that are taking place.

I don’t know that it even is until I hear someone laughing, you know?” “I always love where there is that comedic element in things, but … a lot of the times I never read it as comedy. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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