Meet Nana, the surprise standout of 'Blue Beetle,' played by Oscar nominee Adriana Barraza.
's Jaime Reyes, grabs a high-tech mega-gun, opens fire on a troupe of soldiers in the tunnels beneath an island fortress, and throws her head up to the ceiling as she gleefully cackles at all the chaos she's raining down on her enemies. It's part of a larger storyline that solidifies Nana as the surprise standout ofDirector Ángel Manuel Soto is already hearing fans' pleas for more Nana in future DCU projects.
Barraza, the beloved Mexican actress who was Oscar-nominated for 2006's Babel, worked with Soto to give many layers to the matriarch of the Reyes family. In a nod to the character from Blue Beetle comics, she starts off as a quiet, docile figure who's often comically seen sewing in the background as Jamie's superhero hijinks crash through their home.
Nana has a past as a revolutionary, which is why she feels in her element when the Reyes family starts suiting up in high-tech gear. Soto points to historical figures like Blanca Canales of Puerto Rico and the female soldiers who worked with the Zapatista Liberation Army in Mexico. "All these women who were leaders of revolutionary movements, where people think, 'Nah, that's a nana, that's a grandma.
Soto's approach to Nana applied to the rest of Jamie's close-knit family: Damían Alcázar as his father, Elpidia Carrillo as his mother, Belissa Escobedo as his sister, andas his Uncle Rudy. The filmmaker was acutely aware of how often in superhero movies these side characters are relegated to being props or one-dimensional figures used as bait to motivate the hero.
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