These ants... they're trying to kill me.
At one point during Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) tells his wife, Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), that he went on a date with a woman named Linda while she was trapped in the Quantum Realm.
It was a bit of a throwaway moment, but writer Jeff Loveness has now revealed that he was thinking about including a flashback scene featuring younger versions of Hank, Janet and Linda, and he had a very specific actress in mind to play the latter: Emmy-winning White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge.
"Linda is my mom’s name, so I just tossed that in there for her," Loveness tells THR. "Linda has always been just a good go-to adult woman name for comedy. I don’t know if I should say this or not. I don’t think it even made it into pages, but we wanted Jennifer Coolidge to be Linda for a brief moment. It never reached beyond a Zoom between ourselves, but I had some good ideas there."
Loveness went on to lay out his idea for the scene, which would have paid homage to the erotic thrillers of the '80s.
"I tried to write an ‘80s flashback scene with Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Douglas, because why not? You have the two of them together so there’s gotta be an erotic thriller there, with a foggy lens, and Hank and Janet doing hot, hot science in the ‘80s. (Laughs.) But Linda never made it, and Jennifer Coolidge, I don’t think she ever got a call. We’ll save her for next time. I’m sure she’ll wind up in the MCU, sometime. She can be Doctor Doom. (Laughs.)"
Jennifer Coolidge as Doctor Doom? We're here for it.
It's a shame this didn't make the cut as it sounds like it could have been a fun scene, and it would have allowed us to take a bit of a break from the Quantum Realm.
Coolidge, who is probably best-known for playing Stifler's mom in the American Pie movies, would be a great addition to the MCU, but we'd like to see her in a more substantial role.
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