This story contains spoilers for the Season One finale of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Jon Bass loves to play the piece of shit. The She-Hulk actor, who plays the billionaire Tony Stark wannabe Todd Phelps, is sitting on a park bench in New York City when I ask him to describe—over the phone, in public—how it feels to be a satirical incel on TV. “So embarrassing,” he says, half-teasing. “Sorry! I crack myself up.” Bass, 33, is a generally silly dude who grew up doing impressions of Jim Carrey in The Mask, only to undergo his own abnormally green transformation, years later, in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. In the show’s climactic moment, Bass’s character reveals that he was the secret villain working behind the scenes, publicly shaming She-Hulk, the entire time. Poking fun at She-Hulk’s most unbearable critics, he transforms into a Hulk himself—and, we’re meant to understand, a physical manifestation of misogyny. It’s a ludicrous ending that forces She-Hulk to break the fourth wall, pop out of the Disney+ home screen, and convince the writers to give her the ending her character deserves. “For a glimmer of a beautiful moment, I get to Hulk out,” Bass says, calling the moment “a dream come true.”Growing up in Bellaire, TX, Bass did what any aspiring preteen actor does: immersed himself in school theater. Af… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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