It’s not something that is immediately apparent, but the detail of it really elevates the show in a way that is subtle and incredibly powerful. And the sets! Elena Albanese, who did the sets, the Mystic Castle set and the office set. Her team is so fantastic, her DP - the show looks amazing. Her preparation is so meticulous, and it really allows for spontaneity because so much of the world is in place there. I mean, our life is a collaboration, really, but I would say this was close to our first time collaborating, which was really fun and exciting. It’s been great, actually.Īnd what was it like working with your wife Kat Coiro, who directs the show? Do you collaborate together often? It’s just a very rare, almost off-the-grid way out here. No, because we’re living out in the middle of nowhere, and we have a bunch of chickens. In uprooting your life and moving to Georgia, was it hard to keep the project under wraps? There’s a lot of secret-keeping and spoiler-protecting in the MCU. There’s magic and clowning and stunt performing, and it’s fun to explore these other areas of performing and how they all interrelate. It’s so interesting how it’s a sub-discipline of performing.
And the studying of magic was really fun for me. We got to get in there with them and work on all these things, and sort of craft the magical acts. In the script, it says, “He does a magic show,” you know? So, we had time with the amazing, world-class Marvel stunt team who have their own building, like their own little laboratory, where they’re crafting these moments.
I think that the juxtaposition of the actual Kamar-Taj mystic arts with the sleight-of-hand magic is great. I really wanted there to be as much as possible. Yeah, there was a lot of practical sleight-of-hand magic that took place. It was so fantastic.Īnd is that you performing all those magic tricks on-stage, or was there a special effects element to it? He’s so committed to the joy of the moment. So many of his lines were not scripted, and Kat was, like, shouting them out to him in the middle of take, and he was just in the moment. I was in a constant state of interviewing him. I had such a fantastic time working with him, and I think it really comes across. And my partner, played by Leon Lamar, who is. He added in that scene, which was genius. There’s so many moments that we found on-set, too, like Wong revealing the ball from out of his mouth. This was not a role that you can sort of just show up on set and do We had a technical adviser, a great magician on-set that I worked with, talking about tricks - and we wanted to do as many tricks as possible in the show. Part of that, I believe, is the amount of preparation that went into it. For me, this show feels like a film, more than a show. I was cast somewhat in advance of shooting, so I had a fantastic amount of preparation time, which is really key in a lot of aspects.
What sort of preparation went into the role? Your character in the show, Donny Blaze, is a stage magician and a bit of a rebel. We all did that together, and it’s really amazing how cohesive the whole thing is. It was very interesting to watch them in that way. They loved it.Īs part of Kat’s preparation was to watch all of Marvel in chronological story order. They all got to come to the premiere, and it was just so wonderful for them. was a continual uprooting, but this was a big uprooting, and they had to go along for the ride. Yeah, I mean, it was a huge, life-changing thing for everybody because it was the middle of the pandemic, and we uprooted everybody. Were your kids excited that you and Kat would both be working on a Marvel project? In fact, I made a tape with my oldest daughter. No, it was very organic in the sense that they needed to fill the part.
How did your involvement in the show come about? Was it always in the cards for you to make a cameo? “I think that the juxtaposition of the actual Kamar-Taj mystic arts with the sleight-of-hand magic is great.”įrom his Georgia home, Coiro also spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about working with Marvel’s stunt team and collaborating with his 103-year old She-Hulk costar Leon Lamar. “There was a lot of practical sleight-of-hand magic that took place, and I really wanted there to be as much as possible,” Coiro says. Before he left, the magician stole a sling ring - like the ones that Doctor Strange ( Benedict Cumberbatch) and Wong ( Benedict Wong) use to channel their powers - to aid in his magic shows.Ĭoiro, who audiences may know from his time on Entourage, did a fair amount of preparation in order to perform all of those tricks on-camera. Donny was a former student of the Kamar-Taj until he dropped out after failing to adhere to the temple’s strict teachings. In She-Hulk, Coiro appears in the show’s fourth episode as Donny Blaze, a stage magician with a history in the mystic arts.
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