“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is introducing two new major characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Namor (Tenoch Huerta), who will bring mutants into the MCU, and Riri Williams a.k.a.
Ironheart, played by Dominique Thorne, whose two film credits prior to this are “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Judas and the Black Messiah.”While there are — even in a Hollywood saturated with superhero films — plenty of comic book characters like Namor who have been around for decades yet are still waiting to enter the live-action spotlight, Riri’s path to MCU stardom has, like Thorne’s, been comparatively shorter.
It was only back in 2016 that Marvel Comics introduced the character, created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Mike Deodato, as a brilliant young M.I.T.
student who built her own suit of Iron Man armor in her dorm room.Fast forward to 2022, and now Riri is gearing
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