‘VisionQuest’ Star Talks Finale Cameo and Marvel Reunion: ‘It Had to Happen’

Warning: this article contains spoilers from VisionQuest finale, “Forever”.

Most people think that Ruaridh Mollica first met his Marvel brother, Joe Locke, while he was filming the play. Clarkstonwhich ran from September to November 2025 at the Trafalgar Theater in London’s West End. In reality, they connected long before that in secret during VisionQuest.

Locke, known for Falling for somethingdebuted as adult Billy Maximoff in 2024 miniseries Agatha throughout. The wizard son of the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), born by magical means during the events of WandaVision (2021), found his soul transferred into the body of an Eastview teenager killed in a car accident, Billy Kaplan.

Determined to find his brother, a speedster named Tommy, Billy used his powers to draw the spirit of his fraternal twin into the body of Tommy Shepherd, a foster child who died in a swimming pool tragedy.

Marvel has chosen Mollica to play the elder Tommy in VisionQuestthe show which now closes the studio WandaVision trilogy. The season finale (available to stream now on Disney+) finally reunites the Maximoff twins on screen with their father, Vision (Paul Bettany).

“We met before for coffee to get to know each other better as brothers,” Mollica says. Weekly Entertainment to meet Locke for the first time. He had so many questions: what was it like to work on a WandaVision to show? How is it going when the series comes out? What is Comic-Con like?

“There were a few Agatha throughout fans at the cafe next to us, but obviously nothing about me was announced,” the actor continues. “So they were taking pictures of Joe and I was like, ‘You have no idea the other Maximoff brother is sitting here.'”

Showrunner Terry Matalas confirms: “We didn’t do a chemistry read with (Mollica). You just hope that these two are going to complement each other in different ways. It was so much fun to work with and play with.”

Locke’s surprise appearance comes when Tommy contacts Billy through the supernatural ether. By drowning in a bathtub, which recreates the conditions of Tommy Shepherd’s death, he manages to commune with his brother and ask for help to save their father.

“It had to happen,” Matalas says of Locke’s involvement in the mix. “We knew Billy was there looking for Tommy. The question was when. We had thought about seeing him in a dream sequence earlier, but then I felt like that kept us from earning that final reunion moment of these two, which is what I think people are hoping for. I was lucky enough to direct those scenes. We’ll even have deleted scenes of some of the back and forth.”

One particular exchange confirms that there is another character hidden in their scenes, Agatha Harkness. Agatha throughout ended with the witch’s ghost absorbing Kathryn Hahn’s magic accompanying Billy on his search for Tommy.

Hahn doesn’t show up VisionQuest. “We couldn’t afford it,” confirms Matalas. “That was never really an option.” But Agatha is there while Billy is talking to someone Tommy can’t see – a parallel to Vision always talking to the invisible AI programs in his head.

“I just thought it was funny,” Matalas says of that brief moment. “Tommy had been watching Vision talking to invisible people, and it seemed pretty clear to me that he wouldn’t be able to see Agatha. So the idea of ​​Billy doing that seemed brilliant to me.”

Billy reappears at the very end of VisionQuestrocking his now iconic blue crown as a Wiccan comic book character. In a time of great need for Tommy and Vision, Billy travels to them via a portal and combines his magic with Tommy’s speed energy to save their android father.

“It felt like this family needed to be reunited by the end,” Matalas says. “It had to be at the right moment, the most impactful emotional moment… (Billy) is a kid who just learned he has witch powers, but he’s not good at it. He has Agatha as his guide, but is he going to be able to get to London from New Jersey in a few hours? You forget that, so by the time he do come back, I hope it will be thrills.

The next day, to follow the VisionQuest final filming with Locke, Mollica went to audition for Clarkston. The play would star Locke as Jake, a descendant of William Clark who is determined to retrace his ancestor’s American odyssey through the West when he meets a young man named Chris, Mollica’s role, while stocking the shelves at a Costco overnight in a rural town.

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“We started this piece with this huge secret,” Mollica recalls. “We spent a lot of time getting to know each other, so it made the transition into the part quite easy, especially in the audition room,” he adds. “Everyone was sitting there wondering, ‘Do these guys already know each other?!’ Because (Locke) told me all the notes that the director was giving to the other actors who were auditioning for the role. So I went in and just took all the notes. It was like, “Something is wrong here. »

Once Mollica got the role, he and Locke then spent a month together, sharing meals and rehearsing before performances began. “We became so close on this piece,” he adds. “I mean, obviously, because we had to. We embraced every show, too.”

Difficult to say if the Maximoff boys now have a future in the MCU. All Disney+ shows and movies so far have heavily reported a reunion of the Young Avengers team, which includes Billy and Tommy as featured members. The end of VisionQuest also leaves the door wide open for other adventures, but there is the matter of Marvel drastically scaling back its live-action output over the past few months.

When asked about the potential of Young Avengers, Mollica simply says, “I love comics and it would be nice, but I don’t know anything.”

On the other hand, this wouldn’t be the first time he’s kept a huge Marvel secret.