Vin Diesel’s MCU animated series I Am Groot has been renewed for season 2 and Jeffrey Wright’s The Watcher is all set to return to the show. Wright’s character first appeared in the first season of What If…? and he’ll reprise his role as a cosmic narrator in the Kirsten Lepore-created series.
The news of Wright’s return as The Watcher was exclusively confirmed by the Marvel Studios in a recent press release. In the fifth episode of season 2 of the Disney+ show, Groot and Great Prophet, The Watcher will narrate the cosmic adventures and follow Groot on his adventurous journey.
Jeffrey Wright’s The Watcher Returns
Program creator Kirsten Lepore recently revealed that she has loved the process of Jeffrey Wright’s voicing for the role of The Watcher. “Bringing that character into play and getting to work with Jeffrey Wright on showing a different side of the Watcher from the most stoic version we’ve seen in the past perhaps yeah that was um that was really fun,” Lepore told Josh Wilding in a recent interview.
“Working with Jeffrey Wright was amazing. Yeah, like can’t say enough great things about that record session and um such a cool guy. We had actually done, we’d actually done like three different scratch, you know, like the temporary dialogue for that episode 1. Did one, uh, we had one of the editors at Marvel who has a really great Watcher voice, do a few of them. So, I feel like we were just reworking the scratch you know to pitch this episode to make sure that it was working and then you know, we were kind of like, oh I don’t know, and then as soon as Jeffrey came in it was just like boom there it is like incredible performance just like knocks out of the park you know first time around. I mean he is the Watcher like he embodies it.”
Explaining further, the director said that it was magical to witness him “uh bring that character to life in that capacity” and to give him a little bit of “a sense of humor you know that we haven’t always seen.” The return of The Watcher will certainly be exciting as many fans have been applauding the news.
Kirsten Lepore on Seeing Vin Diesel as Baby Groot
The writer-director has all the good things in the world for Vin Diesel to say as he has been always supportive. The director also revealed that the actor’s journey as the Baby Groot has been wonderful. Diesel as Groot in the MCU has explored different phases of the character and the fan-favorite character never ceases to amaze the fans. Recalling the recording sessions, Lepore said, “he’s [Vin Diesel] always been so supportive and wonderful.”
“Um, and like truly amused which makes me so happy as a writer and director, I’m like he likes it. He’s like and then you know and you see that you know, in the performance and the work you hear it. Um that he’s he’s really bringing his all to it. Um and, and really enjoys and loves this character truly and yeah, he’ll, he’ll not only do the lines but like he’ll always put in all the additional efforts and everything that he’s not even required to do but he just fully commits. Um, and I love that about his performance,” Lepore said of Diesel.
The director further revealed that she’s open to working with the character even further as long as Marvel allows to explore the possibility of the character extending into perhaps more seasons or maybe a feature film.
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