Musician/actress Reba McEntire (“The Voice”) wants to add super hero to her resume. In a recent chat with SiriusXM Hits 1, she told host Ben Harlum that she wants to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Which is something none of us ever expected to see, but now need in our lives.
“I’d love to do a Marvel comic,” McEntire said. “I wanna be a like, female Reba McEntire Power Ranger or something like that in a Marvel movie.” Despite Hasbro owning the Power Rangers IP, Marvel has published some of the comic adaptations.
“My superpower would be able to talk to animals,” McEntire explained. “Wouldn’t that be fun?”
Reba McEntire’s New Show
But if you can’t wait for her to join the MCU, you can catch McEntire on her new show “Happy’s Place.” A series that reunites her with former “Reba” co-star Melissa Peterman and showrunner Kevin Abbott.
The new show has her playing Bobbie, a woman who inherits her late father’s bar alongside a half-sister she never knew she had.
Abbott, who serves as the series creator, admits that it was originally intended as a revival of McEntire’s hit show “Reba.” “We worked on a reboot, and we spent about a year on it,” Abbott told TVLine. “We had it fully worked out. I pitched it to all the old cast members, they were all on board. I pitched it to Disney, which owns the rights to Reba, and they were on board.”
Unfortunately, this was around the time that Disney acquired 21st Century Fox. All of the turbulence with the merger ultimately led to the revival being passed on and the team moving on to make “Happy’s Place.”
You can catch “Happy’s Place,” exclusively on NBC and Peacock. You can catch McEntire in the MCU whenever Kevin Feige answers our telepathic pleas.
