Marvel Studios presents “WandaVision,” a blend of classic television and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) – two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives – begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.

Entertainment Affair recently joined Olsen and Bettany along with co-stars Teyonah Parris, and Kathyrn Hahn, series director Matt Shakman, series head writer Jac Schaeffer, and president of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige, for a virtual press conference moderated by Jaleel White of “Family Matters” fame, to talk about Marvel’s big TV experiment. Check out a few highlights of the event below.

“WandaVision” is Marvel Studios’ first series for Disney+ but that wasn’t always the plan. “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was going to debut first last year, followed very soon behind with WandaVision,” Feige said. “Creatively, [we] didn’t reshuffle. Part of having a long lead plan is having the ability and the idea of how to reshuffle should the need arise. I’m not saying we were prepared for global pandemic; we were not. But we’ve always, over the last 12–15 years of Marvel Studios, been able to shuffle around.”

The performances and settings in “WandaVision” pay homage to some of the greats in American sitcom history. “I think [my performance] was an amalgamation of Mary Tyler Moore and Elizabeth Montgomery," Olsen explained. "I think I accidentally threw in some Lucy in the '70s just because there was so much physical comedy.”

Paul Bettany was struck by how different Vision now seemed compared to his prior appearances in the MCU. “Initially, I was like, “Wow, this is feeling so different,” as I read the script, and I wondered, “How do I keep him the same?” And then, I realized he’s always becoming something else. He’s part Jarvis, he’s part Ultron, and he’s part Tony Stark. He’s omnipotent, but he’s also this naive ingénue.”

Teyonah Parris (Monica Rambeau) is playing the adult version of a character first introduced in 2019’s Captain Marvel. Audiences will get to see glimpses of Rambeau’s life before she landed in “WandaVision.” “We actually do get to learn particularly what things Monica has seen and gone through and how they’ve shaped her life.”

Kathryn Hahn plays the couple’s “nosy neighbor” Agnes. When asked if she has ever had a curious neighbor like her character she said, “We had a neighbor who was very much like this as well, who would pop over unannounced. We would definitely pretend to be excited to see them—and it was always the worst timing!”

Shakman and Schaeffer both drew from another TV staple to portray when the show shifted from the period sitcoms to the odd and the strange. “We often talked about when we were in our period sitcoms, that when something shifted from say a Dick Van Dyke or an I Love Lucy style into something that was outside of that, it was going into kind of a Twilight Zone [style],” Shakman said. In fact, Schaeffer said The Twilight Zone had been an “enormous influence” on her when she was growing up. “It was so incredibly deft at that turn, right? You think you’re in one sort of thing, and then suddenly, it’s flipped on its head. We were all incredibly enamored of that.”

WandaVision starts streaming exclusively on Disney+ January 15th.