During crunch time in Marvel postproduction—which seemed to be all the time, given that the studio now regularly released three movies a year—workdays could last twenty hours, a punishing schedule particularly hard for legions of anonymous CGI artists. Alonso did what she could to ameliorate the pain, ordering stacks of pizzas and walking around the offices with an oversized inflatable baseball bat covered with smiley faces that she dubbed the “Happy Stick.” She wielded it as she made her rounds, making sure that “everyone is still remembering that we’re supposed to be having fun, too.”
