Rebecca Hall, known for her work in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Prestige, and Christine, was supposed to be the first main female villain in a Marvel movie. But the president of Marvel Studios at the time, Ike Perlmutter, didn’t think they’d make as much money in toy sales:
“There was an early draft of Iron Man 3 where we had an inkling of a problem. Which is that we had a female character who was the villain in the draft. We had finished the script, and we were given a…