The 20th entry in the MCU, Ant-Man and the Wasp follows up on the events left hanging after Captain America: Civil War back in 2016. Since then, Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) has been sentenced to house arrest following his objection to the Sokovia Accords.
This so happens to coincide with the arrival of a villain named Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), which ultimately thrusts Lang back into action alongside Hope Pym/The Wasp (Evangeline Lilly) and her father/former Ant-Man Hank Pym (Michael Douglas).
In their pursuit for the greater good, the trio ends up unearthing secrets from the past – which partly has to do with Hank’s wife/former Wasp Janet van Dyne (Pfeiffer). However, it just so happens that Pfeiffer nearly never made it to the final cut of the movie, as the actress came close to the leaving the movie before filming had even begun. Given the nearly 30 years since Pfeiffer had starred in a superhero movie (as Catwoman in Tim Burton’s Batman Returns in 1992), it’s evident that she’s grown stylistically averse to the genre. However, given that other high-caliber actors like Douglas, Robert Redford, Cate Blanchett, and Anthony Hopkins have taken part in the MCU, their involvement may well have fueled her eventual enthusiasm.
