Tatiana Maslany to play Marvel's She-Hulk in Disney+ series

Deadline

The Emmy-winning Orphan Black and Perry Mason star has landed the title role in the Marvel series from Rick and Morty writer Jessica Gao. "The last major character to be co-created by Stan Lee, She-Hulk is Jennifer Walters, an attorney and cousin of Bruce Banner, aka The Hulk," per Deadline. "An emergency blood transfusion from her cousin gives Walters her powers, but unlike Banner/Hulk, She-Hulk was able to keep her intelligence and personality when she Hulked out...Maslany also becomes the latest female talent to lead a Marvel project following in the footsteps of Brie Larson in Captain Marvel and Scarlett Johansson in the upcoming Black Widow movie. Marvel head Kevin Feige has made it his mission to diversify the MCU and this latest addition to the universe does just that." Maslany has spent this year starring on HBO's Perry Mason opposite Matthew Rhys, playing Sister Alice McKeegan.