Krysten Ritter has just entered the fascinating world of Marvel comics, as she has been announced to portray the super-heroine Jessica Jones for a Netflix miniseries. The show, which will air in 2015, is made up of thirteen episodes, and they will all focus on the young actress, who makes her entrance into the universe of Marvel creations with this role.
Deadline informed that Krysten Ritter (known for her role in the TV drama Breaking Bad) had to fight other four actresses who were initially cast for the role, along with her. The list includes names like: Alexandra Daddario, famous for 2013’s Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, TV Series like White Collar (2009-2011) or True Detective (2014); Teresa Palmer (2010’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice); Marin Ireland (2013’s Side Effects) or Jessica De Gouw (2013’s Dracula). Eventually, she proved to be the most appropriate for the role of the female hero who becomes a private investigator as a consequence of her suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The Executive Producer/Showrunner Melissa Rosenberg recommends the actress to the role, as states: “Krysten brings both the hard edge and the vulnerability the role demands.” Furthermore, Marvel.com points to the spokesperson’s impatience for the actress to hit the screen in 2015. Another Executive Producer and Marvel’s Head of Television, Jeph Loeb, gives a more accurate description of the abilities which praise Krysten Ritter as the perfect Jessica Jones: ‘’Krysten Ritter has the type of range, spanning the comic to the tragic, that makes for the stuff of the best Marvel heroes. “
Apart from her short apparition as a supporting actress in the Drama TV Series Breaking Bad, Krysten Ritter also starred in Gilmore Girls (2006-2007) as Lucy, Gravity (2010), or the more recent Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 (2012-2013), where she takes the role of Chloe. Her part as Jessica Jones gives her the opportunity to assert herself as the lead of a beloved story in the comic series universe.