Does the MCU have already got its new Kang? Colman Domingo reveals the reality concerning the rumor he’d change Jonathan Majors as Marvel’s subsequent huge villain.
Followers have been begging for Colman Domingo to hitch the MCU for years. And whereas the actor has lastly made his debut as Norman Osborn in Marvel’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, that didn’t cease followers from wanting extra. This led to them clinging on to any rumor they might concerning the actor making the bounce to live-action, with maybe probably the most prevalent of those revolving round him changing Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror.
Colman Domingo really addressed this rumor final 12 months in a profile with Vanity Fair. Whereas the actor didn’t explicitly deny that he was in consideration by Marvel to interchange Jonathan Majors, he did reveal that his group hadn’t introduced him any details about probably taking up the position of Kang the Conqueror within the MCU. Whereas this managed to subdue many followers, some nonetheless believed his cagey reply might have meant greater than he was letting on.
Colman Domingo Speaks On Kang Rumors
This rumor got here to the forefront as soon as extra in a current discuss that Colman Domingo had with Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. Throughout the chat, Domingo revealed that he really did converse to Marvel concerning the rumor that he was being thought-about to changed Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror. Nonetheless, in the end, he needs no matter position he performs within the MCU to be one thing completely unique to him.
“After some time, when it was continuously within the press and on locations like Twitter, I used to be like ‘Wait a minute, is that this true? Am I being talked about for Kang?’. So I actually referred to as up my group and mentioned ‘Are you guys having conversations that I don’t know something about’ they usually had been like ‘No. I don’t know.’ After which I used to be like ‘Are you guys being cagey or what?’ They usually weren’t. I don’t assume so.”
“However I feel there had been conversations of me coming into Marvel indirectly. And we did comply with up with a sit down assembly with the heads of Marvel. So I did do this. And we talked overtly concerning the panorama of Marvel and even just like the Kang rumors. And I personally knew that, like, pay attention. I’m simply all about power and I simply wish to do issues that make sense and brings light power.”
“However I really feel like need a position to be mine, no matter that position is, no matter I develop… One thing didn’t really feel proper of me like ‘Oh, would I change somebody?’ No, I wanna construct one thing from the bottom up that’s my very own. So I really feel like that was by no means a dialog from my viewpoint.”
These feedback appear to recommend that, even when the rumor of Marvel wanting Colman Domingo to interchange Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror is true, the actor has no real interest in taking up the mantle. And given how effectively he’s taking part in Norman Osborn within the animated sphere, it’s clear that the beginning as a expertise for bringing iconic characters into the MCU in a brand new mild.
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