She also couldn’t address whether she will appear in “Avengers: Doomsday”: “If I were in it, which I’m not, I couldn’t tell you, but I literally am not.”

Kat Dennings says she’s been body-scanned by Marvel: ‘They could put me in anything they want’

She also couldn't address whether she will appear in "Avengers: Doomsday": "If I were in it, which I'm not, I couldn't tell you, but I literally am not."

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Will Darcy Lewis return in *Avengers: Doomsday*?

Kat Dennings doesn't think so — but she also can't completely rule it out.

The *Shifting Gears* actress said that she didn't film any new material to reprise her kooky scientist character in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe crossover movie.

"I'm in the universe and as you know, I can't tell you anything, but I am not in it," she told *Entertainment Tonight*. "I mean, I'm not in it. And I'm telling you right now I'm not in it. If I were in it, which I'm not, I couldn't tell you, but I literally am not. I'm sure they already filmed it. I was here [in Los Angeles], I'm not in it."

Kat Dennings in 'Thor: The Dark World'.

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However, the *2 Broke Girls* star also noted that the character could still appear in a future project without her knowledge thanks to body-scanning tech at Marvel. "They did scan me, so to be honest, they could put me in anything they want at this point," Dennings said. "Who knows!"

Dennings first debuted as Darcy, the goofy sidekick of Natalie Portman's Jane Foster, in 2011's *Thor*. She reprised the role in the 2013 sequel *Thor: The Dark World*, and also appeared with a new configuration of characters on the 2021 Disney+ series *WandaVision*. She later voiced the character on four episodes of the animated series *What If?* and appeared in a small cameo in 2022's *Thor: Love and Thunder*.

Marvel has publicly acknowledged that the studio's productions often scan actors' bodies, though the scans are generally only used for visual effects purposes rather than storing actors' likenesses for future projects.

Kat Dennings on 'WandaVision'.

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"In most Marvel films, we scan all the actors in their costume with other costumes so that we have a really good 3d scan of everything," VFX supervisor Stephane Ceretti said while promoting 2018's *Ant-Man and the Wasp*. "So it's all built based off their real sizes, and we have to recreate the costume to make sure that they wrinkle correctly."

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As far as we know, however, no actor's digital scan has ever appeared in a movie without the actor's involvement, as Dennings suggested could happen to her in future projects.

*Avengers: Doomsday* will see Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans return to the MCU for the first time since Iron Man and Captain America's respective sendoffs in 2019's *Avengers: Endgame*. The film will reunite Downey and Evans with several other *Endgame* actors, including Chris Hemsworth, Paul Rudd, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Tom Hiddleston, Letitia Wright, and Winston Duke.

*Doomsday* will also feature a plethora of MCU actors who have not appeared in previous *Avengers* crossovers, including *The Fantastic Four: First Steps*' Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn; *Black Widow*'s Florence Pugh and David Harbour; *Black Panther: Wakanda Forever*'s Tenoch Huerta Mejía; *Shang-Chi*'s Simu Liu; *Ant-Man and the Wasp*'s Hannah John-Kamen; and *The Falcon and the Winter Soldier*'s Danny Ramirez and Wyatt Russell.

Additionally, the film will finally unite the Avengers with several actors from Fox's *X-Men *films, which took place in a separate universe that will presumably crash into Disney's MCU. Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Rebecca Romijn, Alan Cumming, James Marsden, Kelsey Grammer, and Channing Tatum are among the stars reprising their mutant roles from various *X-Men* projects.

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Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, *Avengers: Doomsday* hits theaters on Dec. 18.

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