Echo Interview - Part 2
Spoilers ahead for Echo on Disney+.
Marvel’s Echo is finally here! The series starring Alaqua Cox’s Maya Lopez is not only the MCU’s first bingeable series, but the first to have a mature rating. While Echo has been greatly advertised as taking place on a more gritty side of the street, the latest of Marvel TV shows opened on a rather supernatural front. When CinemaBlend spoke to Echo director and producer Sydney Freeland, she shared with us why she chose to open the show how she did.
Echo opens with a group of indigenous people rising from magical pools. One woman decides to drink from one of the pools, leading to a bird appearing in front of her and then flying away. Suddenly, the group’s home begins to furiously shake before they are transported to a new place, blooming with greenery and the gaze of the sun. Their clay forms begin to melt away to reveal their human forms. The three-minute sequence leads into young Maya’s origin story. What was that all about?
Marvel’s Echo is finally here! The series starring Alaqua Cox’s Maya Lopez is not only the MCU’s first bingeable series, but the first to have a mature rating. While Echo has been greatly advertised as taking place on a more gritty side of the street, the latest of Marvel TV shows opened on a rather supernatural front. When CinemaBlend spoke to Echo director and producer Sydney Freeland, she shared with us why she chose to open the show how she did.
Echo opens with a group of indigenous people rising from magical pools. One woman decides to drink from one of the pools, leading to a bird appearing in front of her and then flying away. Suddenly, the group’s home begins to furiously shake before they are transported to a new place, blooming with greenery and the gaze of the sun. Their clay forms begin to melt away to reveal their human forms. The three-minute sequence leads into young Maya’s origin story. What was that all about?
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00:00 I wanted to ask about the way you opened the series,
00:04 because it was really surprising to me
00:05 about that supernatural way that you opened the show.
00:09 I was wondering if you could talk about the decision
00:12 to open that show in that way
00:14 and maybe some more context around it.
00:17 Yeah, you know, I think, you know,
00:19 we always knew that we were going to tell
00:20 a sort of grounded street level,
00:23 kind of a grittier side of things,
00:26 a story revolving around Maya Lopez.
00:29 But the other thing we always knew we were going to explore
00:30 was her ancestors or her ancestral lineage.
00:35 We didn't know that we were going to explore
00:37 her matrilineal ancestor line.
00:38 That was something that sort of came about
00:40 in the writing process and as the project evolved.
00:43 And then as we went further and further back in time,
00:46 and as we incorporated the Choctaw Nation,
00:51 then we got to create more specifics.
00:54 So in the beginning of the first episode,
00:57 we actually are there for one of the
01:00 Choctaw creation stories.
01:02 And that was something that came as a direct result
01:04 of our collaboration with the Choctaw Nation.
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