Marvel’s Black Widow had a fun post-credits scene that sets up a great dynamic for a future project. If you haven’t seen the film yet, you might not want to read ahead. Regardless, the writer wanted a longer post-credits scene, but he delivered what he could.
The post-credits scene of Black Widow revealed that Yelena Bolova (Florence Pugh) is working for Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a mysterious character who was originally introduced in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. They had an amusing little exchange of words and Val is setting up a faceoff between Yelena and Hawkeye, and she is made to believe that Hawkeye is responsible for Natasha Romanoff’s death. This is obviously setting up the upcoming Hawkeye series.
In an interview with Collider, writer Eric Pearson talked about how the Black Widow credits scene came together, and how it was originally meant to introduce Val before she appeared in The Falcon and The Winter Solider:
“I just know that they told me we have plans to introduce this character Valentina, and it’s going to be played by Julia Louis Dreyfus. And I couldn’t get to the computer fast enough.”
Pearson went on to say that he was so excited for Val and Yelena to interact with each other that he wanted the scene to be much longer:
“That tag scene was probably like five pages long because I was just so greedy. I was like, I want Yelena and Valentina just back and forth, bouncing dialogue off of each other. And ultimately that’s never going to happen. You’re not going to have a full scene as a stinger at the end. So we went with the smaller version, but I was just so excited to get those two actors together, to get those two character dynamics together. And I also love taking an emotional moment, like Yelena at the grave, and then flushing it down the toilet with Valentina blowing her nose.”
I’m really curious about this Val character, and there’s no doubt that we’re going to be seeing a lot more of her in the future. We still don’t know much about her, but she’s such a fun character. It’s going to be interesting to see what exactly she’s doing with this team that she’s putting together.