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Olivia Colman Wants To Play A Marvel Bad Guy

tumblr_oam7rqzaHm1sgkxvao1_r1_500I've been quacking on about how gorgeously brilliant the BBC TV show Fleabag is for a while now, and today the Americans get to see what all the fuss is about after its made available to them on Amazon Prime.

It also gave Olivia Colman the chance to do a round of interviews, also off the back of her Emmy nomination for The Night Manager.

Now, Colman has established herself in Britain at any road as the ultimate guide to whether a TV show is any good, simply by her presence.

Leading roles in The Mitchell And Webb Look, Broadchurch, Rev, Twenty Twelve, Flowers, Green Wing, Look Around You, every single one a gem. And now The Night Manager and Fleabag. Plus appearances in Doctor Who (Matt Smith's first episode) and films like Tyrannosaur, The Iron Lady and Hot Fuzz. She is unmistakably a National Treasure, and held close to our collective hearts.

So what does she want to do next? Well, according to this interview in Vulture, she wants to play a Marvel baddie. Film, TV, she doesn't specify, just…

I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged woman they have in Marvel… . I imagine that dream is gone, but that would be amazing.

Well, she acted opposite Marvel baddie Tom Hiddleston in The Night Manager, is that where she caught the bug?

Kevin Feige? Simon Kinberg? Jeph Loeb? Your move… who can get to her first?


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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