When Marvel fans tune into the new Disney+ show VisionQuest this week, they’ll finally get to meet the fourth part of Vision (Paul Bettany) and Wanda Maximoff’s (Elizabeth Olsen) nigh-on-impossible nuclear family.
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Ruaridh Mollica plays Thomas Shepherd, a Scottish teen fresh out of foster care who is haunted by memories of a life that has never been his.
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He remembers being “Tommy,” one of the sons of a witch named Wanda and a kind android with a face like a red devil named Vision.
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He can hear the laugh track of the WandaVision audience and remember when his dog died, but he doesn’t know where these thoughts came from.
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(His twin brother Billy [Joe Locke] used magic to put the soul of his lost brother into the body of a drowning Scottish boy in Agatha All Along.)
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**Spoilers for the first two episodes of VisionQuest, now streaming on Disney+**
At the start of VisionQuest, there’s only one person in Thomas Shepherd’s life who makes sense and that’s best friend and fellow pickpocket Lisa Molinari (Lauren Morais).
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We meet the teens pulling a clever confidence game in a pub before being pulled into the drama of the larger story.
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When Tommy falls into a panic attack, it’s Lisa who calms him down.
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VisionQuest Episode 2 opens with a flashback to when the kids met on a bus headed for a brutal psychiatric hospital; a terrified Tommy latches onto Lisa and the two help each other escape.
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“I think Tommy’s brilliant, but he does need a Lisa to get him through,” VisionQuest star Lauren Morais told DECIDER when she visited our offices last week.
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Lisa Molinari is known as “Coat of Arms” in the comics.
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She’s an artist and a bit of an anti-heroine, as likely to team up with the baddies as she is to stand by long-time friend (and sometimes love interest) Tommy Maximoff.
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When Morais visited DECIDER HQ, she teased how the new Disney+ show VisionQuest brings her character’s magical coat to life and confirmed that she’s totally game for a long-awaited Young Avengers project.
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She was mum on that, but totally down to explain how she became the MCU’s first Welsh character…
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You are joining the MCU.
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How much of a Marvel fan were you before starting this project?
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You know what, I was a recent Marvel fan.
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So in the last like year or two, my partner, she was watching Agatha All Along, and she was like, “This is a bit of you, Lauren.
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It’s so fun, it’s so camp, it’s got witches.
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You’re gonna love it.”
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I watched it and absolutely fell in love with it.
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Then she’s like, “If you like that, you’re gonna watch WandaVision.”
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So I actually watched it upside down almost, but I kind of appreciated it a lot more because I could see the bits.
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Then from there I got obsessed and obviously watched the new Spider-Man and Thunderbolts.
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But it felt like there was something for me in it, you know?
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You’re playing Lisa Molinari, who has a history in the comics with Tommy Shepherd.
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What was it like building that with Ruaridh on set?
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Because from the very jump you guys have this great chemistry.
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I mean, it’s so easy with Ruaridh.
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He’s so nice, he’s so fun.
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I think that was shown in our meetings when I had my final auditions.
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We had chemistry reads and he was so easy to get along with.
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We did funny bits with each other.
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I think we just got the same references and had similar vibes.
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Then our first scene was actually the meeting scene [in Episode 2], so we filmed that kind of in chronological order.
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I think that helped us because we were getting to know each other literally and in the series itself.
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Then it just built from there.
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I’ve only seen the first two and a half episodes so far.
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So let’s jump to Episode 2.
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What was it like shooting that on that tense bus?
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