Star of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Hayley Atwell reveals the identity of Peggy Carter’s husband in 2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier – like, like, something like.
What happened to Peggy Carter’s husband?
In an interview with Collider for Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part OneAtwell cleared up the mystery of Agent Carter’s husband.
During World War II, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) watches a documentary at his own exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution and learns—through a clip of an interview with Carter—that he saved his former lover’s husband. As it turns out, the art department was prepared to place a family photo of Agent Carter next to her bed for the scene where she reunites with Cap, but Marvel Studios quickly intervened.
“I remember when I was filming it, the prop guy put a framed photo of Peggy with her husband and kids on Peggy’s bed, and Louis de Esposito came running over just before we started rolling and was going to ‘pull it out.’ We don’t know yet. We don’t want to limit ourselves to the assumption that this is who she married,” Atwell recalls. “And I know it was deleted. And I thought, “OK, this is really interesting.”
While the decision to remove the photo surprised Atwell, she respected the fact that Marvel likes to keep audiences interested in supporting characters like Agent Carter.
“I think what (Marvel) is so good at is giving audiences what they want and exceeding their expectations,” Atwell continued. “And I think that’s why they’re always conscious of just giving the audience the amount of information they need to know to keep them interested, but also delight them and surprise them with new information.”
The only other member of Agent Carter’s family to appear in the MCU is niece Sharon Carter (Emily Van Camp), who appeared in 2016’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Captain America: Civil Warand 2021s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Agent Carter died off-screen during Civil War, but was later reunited with Cap when he time-traveled through the Quantum Realm in late 2019. Avengers: Endgame.
Atwell will star opposite Tom Cruise when Mission: Impossible: Deadly Reckoning opens in theaters July 14. Part one”.