Hayley Atwell, who plays Peggy Carter, a French Resistance Agent, in Marvel's much-anticipated
Captain America: The First Avenger film, recently chatted with Lydia Slater of
Mail Online. And in that chat she shortly discussed her role, and the experience of signing on for this Marvel film in particular.
On her physical demanding role as Peggy Carter...
"Peggy has to look as if she’s able to outrun men while wearing heels.And she’s very tough, so I’ve been doing military circuits round Primrose Hill six times a week" She has also learned how to handle a machine gun and revels in hanging out with her co-star Tommy Lee Jones"
On Signing on for this Marvel film in particular...
(laughing)"I wouldn’t be allowed to do a DC Comics film for years, if ever. It’s like Coke and Pepsi." She’s already been hauled over the coals for revealing [Tommy Lee] Jones would be taking a role in the film before he’d officially accepted it, and reveals that she has to keep her script in a locked box. "We can’t even call it Captain America on set – we have to use a code word. [The film] looks stunning and the scale of it is hard to comprehend."
Captain America: The First Avenger is scheduled for theaters July 22, 2011!