'I'm so excited for all the kids who are going to see someone who looks like them kicking butt,' Xolo Maridueña tells Newsweek's Parting Shot about playing the first Latin superhero to lead a film in 'Blue Beetle.'
Get the best of Newsweek via emailHonestly, it's indescribable. I think as an actor and as someone who wants to achieve everything, honestly, being a superhero is something unfathomable, so I'm so grateful and so appreciative. And I'm so excited for the movie to come out. It's very ambitious. It was a really big step for me, career wise. I'd never worked on a movie before. But I feel like we really knocked it out of the park.
You know what? She had the most perfect reaction, and it's funny you asked that. So I found out about booking this role at a dinner. I got surprised at the dinner with the director and the writer and the producers of the movie, my family hadn't known, my team hadn't known. So I'm at this dinner, and Angel [Manuel Soto], the director of, picked up the phone and said some really, really kind words.
XOLO MARIDUEÑA as Blue Beetle on the set of Warner Bros. Pictures’ action adventure “BLUE BEETLE,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.So what was what was it like preparing to play this character? And how difficult was it to like actually shoot some of these scenes?really helped prepare me for not only the stunt work, but just the pacing of having to do action and dialogue as well.
Honestly, what I've been so appreciative about the DC world, even before we entered in, is that they really seemed to highlight the filmmaker, regardless as to the project. I really feel like Christopher Nolan's signature is on the, I think that's no different. Angel Manuel Soto, our director, and Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, our writer, really found a way to bring their lives and their experiences to the page and on the big screen.
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