Why Liv Tyler’s BRAVE NEW WORLD Scenes Feel Off Even Though Marvel Says She Was There
I think Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World is a pretty messy MCU movie. I even watched it a second time because I was told it was better the second time around, but no… it was worse.
The film feels like a Frankenstein’s monster of reshoots, edits, and last-minute stitching together. Scenes are riddled with continuity hiccups, characters appear isolated from the main plot, haircuts kept changing from scene to scene, one minute characters were in physical shape the next they have big bellies, and some interesting costume changes come with zero explanation.
Then there’s Liv Tyler’s return as Betty Ross. Betty plays a crucial role in the film’s emotional arc, particularly in relation to her father, Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford). The story emphasizes their estranged relationship, with Ross struggling to reconcile personal and presidential duties while dealing with his transformation into Red Hulk.
Yet despite the weight of this dynamic, Betty is barely in the movie, appearing only in two major scenes, which include a brief phone call before the climactic battle and a visit to her imprisoned father at the Raft.
Both scenes feel… off. In the phone call, Betty’s dialogue is very minimal, short, vague responses while Ford’s Ross carries the entire conversation. Then there’s the prison scene, where Betty is strangely obscured.
She’s lit in heavy shadow, only shown from the chest up, and often framed just out of focus. Her presence feels so bizarrely handled that many viewers speculated Marvel never actually had Tyler on set with her co-stars.
But according to a Disney spokesperson speaking to IGN, that’s not the case. The confirmed: “Tyler did provide dialogue voiceover for the phone scene,” clarifying that her lines weren’t AI-generated or spliced from old footage.
They also insisted that Tyler was physically on set with both Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford for the final scene.
Brave New World isn’t the first Marvel project to raise eyebrows with odd framing, lighting, and digital trickery. The MCU has a long history of patchwork filmmaking, where reshoots and post-production edits alter performances, add characters, or even place actors into scenes they were never physically present for.
Marvel stars have openly discussed filming entire sequences on green screens with little idea of who they’re supposed to be interacting with.
Ultimately, it’s unclear if the way Betty returned was a creative choice or a side effect of Marvel’s production process. Either way, if Tyler was actually on the set of the film, they should’ve actually utilized her talents and give her a real role to work with in the movie. Such a waste.
