JOE LOCKE: What’s your favorite thing about being in the MCU?
RUARIDH MOLLICA: Normally, you make something and you let the fans into it as a new world. But this is the first time where you’re making something that already exists, and it’s like you’re giving it to the fans as a gift. You hope that they like it, and they enjoy it, and that you’ve done an accurate representation of what they’ve grown up with or seen or read in comics. That’s been a really novel experience for me.
JOE LOCKE: It’s quite daunting. It’s that thing of wanting to live up to their expectations but also wanting it to be your own as well.
RUARIDH MOLLICA: Totally. It’s walking that line of: How do I bring my own spin to this? And I think we both did.
JOE LOCKE: That’s the great bit of it, that the fans on the whole are very supportive of you making it yours. And we definitely have.
RUARIDH MOLLICA: We had a lot of creative license because we were both put into the bodies of new people, which was good.
JOE LOCKE: What kind of research did you do for this?
RUARIDH MOLLICA: I watched all of WandaVision, which was great. I imagine you did the same thing, right? That’s all of [Tommy and Billy’s] memories.
JOE LOCKE: Hmm, you didn’t watch all of Agatha All Along?
RUARIDH MOLLICA: Uhhh… [Laughs] No, of course I did. I loved that show.
JOE LOCKE: What if you were like, “No, I actually avoided that one.”
RUARIDH MOLLICA: “Yeah, I knew you were in it, so I didn’t watch it.” But obviously, the first thing I did was get all the comics where our characters were on the front. I also read so many fan theories on Reddit, just because I really wanted to see what people wanted.
JOE LOCKE: It’s crazy how accurate they can be sometimes.
RUARIDH MOLLICA: I know! Sometimes people say stuff, and I’m like, “How do you know that?! We’ve not even shot that yet!”
JOE LOCKE: Have you found keeping all the secrets hard?
RUARIDH MOLLICA: Definitely.
JOE LOCKE: Do you remember when we were doing the play, and we had a Q&A after? We had obviously met on set filming our scenes, and we’d maybe let it slip to the director of our play that had happened. We were doing a Q&A, and he was so adamant like, “Well, you guys [already] filmed together…” And we were like, “No! No we didn’t! [Laughs]
RUARIDH MOLLICA: That was scary! [Laughs]
JOE LOCKE: But look, here we are!
RUARIDH MOLLICA: Here we are! We didn’t get fired! Well, it’s a bit late now. They already filmed the show.
JOE LOCKE: We didn’t get fired! [Laughs] But I’m so proud of you, Ruaridh. I think that everyone is going to absolutely love VisionQuest, and I’m just so happy that you’re my brother.
RUARIDH MOLLICA: I’m happy that you’re my brother. I love you.
