Wandavision actor on Marvel audition process and confidentiality

Amos Glick as Dennis The Mailman in Wandavison

Marvel Studios are known for their confidentiality and their extreme measures to keep the plot of their movies and shows a secret. The lucky few who have the opportunity to star in a Marvel project have to undergo an extensive audition process and comply with very strict rules during filming. Actor Amos Glick, best known for his role as Dennis The Mailman in Marvel's 2021 show, Wandavision was one of these.

Describing the process of becoming involved with the show in an exclusive interview with Red's Reviews & Interviews, Glick refers to it as "a bit strange". Often, not even the actors themselves know what they are auditioning for. "I think it just said Marvel project," he said while discussing his audition from early 2020.

Glick also revealed that "for the longest time, [Wandavision] had another name, even when I got hired. It was called Big Red". This, of course, is alluding to the titular character Wanda Maximoff, The Scarlet Witch. Adding to this, he mentions how "after I shot [the show], I found out the actual title of it was Wandavision,".

Amos in the series finale of Wandavision

Marvel uses multiple different materials on their auditioning actors, to see what suits them best. "I got three different pieces of script. One for a delivery man [the character Glick ended up portraying in the series] with a lot of dialogue back and forth with a woman he was delivering to, commenting on how beautiful her lawn and flowers were." He continues to explain, "I read a piece of commercial copy, so I guess I was auditioning for the commercial man". This character was ultimately played by actor Ithamar Enriquez and was subject to a lot of analysis by fans, trying to figure out his role in the bigger picture of Wanda's false reality.

"Commercial Man" portrayed by Ithamar Enriquez

The third piece of script tested Amos' comedic skills; "[the scene] was a man and a wife doing some chore in the house and joking about that." It's clear that the casting team at Marvel give the actors an opportunity to show their talents and experiment with multiple different characters.

When Amos found out that he was cast in August of 2020, even that was rather vague. "I found out from my agent that I'd booked the delivery man for sure for one episode, and maybe additional days, but it didn't say. So I had no idea what I was in for."

Discussing Marvel, Glick states that "they're so secretive". "I had no information on anything.....I didn't know who I was doing scenes with, I didn't know if I had dialogue to be perfectly honest!" Although his character was initially named "Delivery man through the decades", Amos was only booked for one episode, so didn't know how long the gig would be.

Amos played Dennis in 6 episodes of the series

He didn't receive any sides (pages of the script that are being shot on a particular day) either, so wasn't sure what to expect when the time to film his scenes came.

One day, the director asked "Amos, you got your lines ready?" Amos recalls thinking "I don't know what's going on!" However, the director explained, giving Glick "a chat about the context of what was going on," which enabled him to understand his character and portray him as well as possible. Although this was only "little bits and pieces, the vaguest impression that [Dennis] was in a reality that Wanda or someone had control of,".

After being asked if keeping details about the show confidential was difficult, Glick replied with, "Not at all. I just didn't say anything. It's really important to them [Marvel] ."

Not even actors who audition for roles are able to discuss the few details they know. Glick revealed, "I had to sign a non-disclosure agreement just to get the audition materials, so before being hired, just for being considered!" He continued, "Eventually, they did start giving me sides, and it had my name in a watermark across the whole thing. So if I went home and put it on eBay, it would've been very obvious who had stolen the side; you're supposed to hand those back in at the end of each day."

Marvel clearly go out of their way to keep their projects super confidential, but this didn't bother Amos. He explained, "More important for me is getting the role and making my employers happy and doing a good job, so why would I screw with that?"

It's rumoured that Dennis will return in Marvel's 2023 series, "Agatha: Coven of Chaos"

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Amos will return as Dennis The Mailman in Marvel's upcoming series, "Agatha: Coven of Chaos", which is headlined by Kathryn Hahn, reprising her role as Agatha Harkness from Wandavision.