Hayley Atwell saw her own funeral. And it’s all thanks to Chris Evans. Sort of.
The Conviction star, who has played Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic universe for close to seven years, saw Peggy Carter’s funeral as it happened in Captain America: Civil War thanks to texts from Evans.
“Chris sent me a picture of him filming my funeral. Like, ‘You look pretty hot when you’re old and dead,'” Atwell told E! News at the 2016 TCA Summer Press Tour. “I went on set and I got her funeral program and I’ve kept it. It was great, she had a great turnout. She was obviously a very-liked lady. So I think she had a good send off.”
Atwell took Peggy Carter to the small screen for two seasons of Agent Carter. The series was recently canceled by ABC, but she’s staying in the family with Conviction, a legal drama where she stars as Hayes Morrison, the former first daughter of the United States who is now working as a lawyer tasked with leading a team who overturns wrongful convictions in New York City. Her costars include CSI: NY veteran Eddie Cahill as her boss Wayne Wallis, Aaron Ashmore, Emily Kinney and Merrin Dungey.
“What I liked about Hayes is you never know what she’s going to say next .She’s quite bold and she’s provocative and also she’s very relaxed in her own skin, that’s always quite fun to play really and you get to work with people like Eddie,” she said.
“It’s a relationship built on fireworks,” Cahill teased about his character’s relationship with Atwell’s. “One day it’s going to boom, the other day it’s going to pop. They’re competitors, they’re combative, they’re everything you want in two leading characters.”
As for Agent Carter, earlier in the day Atwell said she’s not saying goodbye to the character just yet. “I don’t feel like I’ve said goodbye to her. She does still seem to live on a lot for fans. Marvel is still such a big part of my career and I suppose my professional family, but I would absolutely not rule out the idea of going back to Peggy at some point, seeing her in other avenues,” Atwell said. “I love her and I hope that she has a life elsewhere in another time.”
“I hound [co-president of Marvel Studios] Louis D’Esposito on a regular basis saying, ‘Give me a movie,'” she later added. “I think the great thing about Peggy is we know from the [the movies] that she lives a long life, so she can come back. I’m thinking—I’m banking on when I’m in my 50s, let’s see what Peggy’s up to in this decade.”
Conviction premieres Monday, Oct. 3 at 10 p.m. on ABC.
