Thandiwe Newton Reveals She Rejected ‘Meh’ Superhero Film

Many actors working right this moment would eagerly settle for nearly any position within the DC or Marvel Cinematic Universes. Thandiwe Newton, nonetheless, will not be content material taking part in a plot system in one other character’s tragic backstory.  

While selling her new movie, “Reminiscence,” Newton shared her need to star in a comic book guide film with the British outlet LADbible–however solely in the suitable half. The actress revealed that she was pressured to reject a very underwhelming position in such a movie. 

“I was offered a role playing someone’s mum who just dies,” Newton advised LADbible. “I was like, ‘Meh, no.’”

“It was more the role, you know what I mean?” she added, earlier than explaining that she really actually admires how sure filmmakers are tinkering with the style’s well-tread conventions. 

“I love what’s happening with these genres now, where filmmakers are f—ing with the genre,” she stated. 

“The perfect example is Taika Waititi, what he did with ‘Ragnarok.’ I love that the actors in it really want to push it too, of course they do – it’s boring otherwise, Jesus.”

She continued, “And you know, the fact that Watchmen used Tulsa [race massacre of 1921] in the origin story of that show, that’s critical race theory, you know, looking into the past and actually merging with it in the present so that we have a better understanding for our future.”

Newton admitted that she was initially skeptical of tentpole filmmaking however finally modified her tune as soon as she skilled these motion pictures’ potential to be each commercially and artistically priceless.  

“As a genre they bore me, these big franchises, and I’m quite cynical about it too, because it’s just about money, it’s this behemoth of money that’s just like rolling forward gathering more money, right?” she stated. “But now I feel like there is a demand from both the audience, I think people who are involved in the movies – but certainly the world – that there is better substance around these superhero things.”

It seems that the “Westworld” actress is deciding on initiatives extra rigorously after the expertise she had engaged on “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” Newton lately expressed disappointment that her character bought the axe within the 2018 movie with a view to reduce manufacturing prices.  

“I remembered at the time thinking, ‘This is a big, big mistake — not because of me, not because I wanted to come back,” she stated. “You don’t kill off the first Black woman to ever have a real role in a ‘Star Wars’ movie. Like, are you f—ing joking?”