Louis D'Esposito

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Funny story about that, when I went in for my Marvel audition, like at my screen test, it was with Sarah Finn and Lou D'Esposito, and Sarah and I took a selfie together, or like we took photos with all the producers, and it was on Sarah's phone.

So she AirDropped to me.

AirDropped it.

And then some really, like, intimate small ideas, uh, like character ideas, um, that it's q- it's quite a balance.

Um, but yeah, no, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm privileged enough to be working with, uh, you know, Kevin Feige and Lou D'Esposito at Marvel, and the Russo brothers who I worked with before on, um, Community when I was a-

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... writer producer on Community.

As much as the Russo brothers help produce and direct, these two, uh, help to, to write a lot of these films and make sure that all the storylines line up and things almost as much as Kevin Feige.

So the fact that they, uh, developed this show, or co-developed this show and, you know, wrote the first episode and, you know, executive produced it as well as, uh, Louis D'Esposito, um...

I probably butchered that name, and I apologize.

Um, having directed it, uh, that person also directed several of the Marvel One-Shots that we've talked about in the past, and was also at one point the, uh, co-head, on paper at least, I, I don't exactly know how it worked 'cause not a lot of people referred to him, but was the, the co-head of Marvel Studios with Kevin Feige.

It was always Kevin Feige as the president, and then co-president, uh, Louis D'Esposito.

So it's interesting that that person, who's also been a producer, and again, has featured on many things, um, with regards to behind the scenes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, directed, uh, this episode.

And I feel like a lot of those give more credence to this series than even perhaps Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. being sort of in the fold of the, the Marvel Cinematic Universe at large.

So this, I feel like this film, there's a lot of like behind the scenes history.

And then normally I wouldn't talk about a first AD, but in this case, I am going to talk about it because it was Louis D'Esposito.

You have seen his name before because he has now been the EP for every single Marvel Cinematic Universe film, but The Incredible Hulk with Edward Norton.

So he started as a first AD, and now he's one of the most powerful executive producers in Hollywood, which I think is very interesting.