AP2HYC: Andrea, you play the Boss Lady in the show. Is that an original character or is that based on someone in the comics?
Andrea: Yes and no. The honest truth is we were trying to figure out a role that I could play and ultimately I don’t fit the usual genre for female superheroes or anybody in that kind of comic thing. It started off as a joke, as most of my roles with Chris are. We got into an argument the day we were starting to cast for the characters and he basically always says that I’m in charge or…
Chris: You’re the boss.
Andrea: …that I’m the boss and everything goes my way, whatever, whatever. He ended up making a joke about how… How did you explain me as Boss Lady when you were getting mad?
Chris: You’re his money? No. His meal ticket.
Andrea: Yeah. Because he doesn’t fear anybody but the one person that’s in charge. So it’s kind of like a reference on being the real boss. So we’d been going to the store and we found these hair extensions, put them in. We found this jacket that didn’t go anywhere. We put it together and somebody ended up telling us that I looked like the character Victoria Hand. And we were like “What?” So we looked it up and it literally, to the T, if you look at her and me you could say that I was Victoria Hand. So we ended up kind of rolling with it but we weren’t gonna announce that, so it’s kind of on a hush-hush basis until the end.
Chris: We are still developing the Boss Lady character in terms of what direction we’ll take her in and what references we’ll make with her. We have a bit of a lid on it, but there are Victoria Hand elements to Boss Lady.
Andrea: It rolls together because of who Victoria Hand’s boss is right now. So we’re kind of thinking of how to incorporate other characters, so we decided to go down that route. It opens up the Avengers, it opens up other characters.
Chris: There’s room for expansion into the Marvel Universe.
Damian: I mean, that’s the cool thing with Deadpool. Like Chris said, Deadpool’s pretty much touched up on everybody in the Marvel Universe. It opens up windows and doors for so many things.
AP2HYC: Can you tell us any characters we might see later in the series?
Chris: We’re going to have Taskmaster make an appearance. Episode 8 is entitled “Go Home Taskmaster”. We’re going to be having a cameo from another Deadpool ally, but I’m gonna save that one as a bit of a secret. We’ll also be bringing in Dr. Ellen Whitby, so all the mania associated with that character will be included.
Andrea: Season 2 is also gonna broaden, crossing our fingers that we still make it to season 2, we’re gonna broaden a bit of Deadpool’s past and bring in other characters like Satana. She’s a very sexy character that we were thinking about incorporating. Death, that’s another one we’re thinking of incorporating in season 2.
Chris: It could go anywhere.
