The infamous entity known as the Shadow King appears in numerous guises and forms throughout the first season of Noah Hawley’s acclaimed X-Men spin-off. When is a king not a king? When, despite still being a king, she’s a queen, of course. Despite the shift, Swinton chose to portray the character as androgynous, adding another interesting layer to one of the more fascinating castings in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. A strange choice, one might say, given that the character in the comics was in fact an elderly Tibetan man. “Can you imagine not having pockets?” Whittaker mused in Vulture.įrom playing a dishevelled archangel Gabriel in 2005’s Constantine to a tanned, glamorous magazine editor in Trainwreck, few would be surprised if it was announced that Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton was to play Arnold Schwarzenegger in a biopic!ĭirector Scott Derrickson was clearly enticed by Swinton’s legendary versatility, choosing to cast and write the role of the Ancient One in Doctor Strange entirely around her.
Not only was the shake-up needed, but the Thirteenth Doctor also came complete with a totally cool and very functional new outfit (complete with pockets, a given for men’s outfits, but not always for women’s). When you think about it, for a Time Lord who is hundreds of years old, there’s no way that the Doctor wouldn’t have regenerated in female form. All is as it was – and, possibly, even a little better.” Although Whittaker came up against some critics, Lucy Mangan said it best in The Guardian after the first episode aired: “If you’re reading this, the world did not end. More than 50 years after Doctor Who hit screens, Jodie Whittaker was cast as the first female Doctor, while Ruth (Jo Martin) turned out to be another incarnation of the Doctor, making her the first POC to play the role.
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However, Thor star Chris Hemsworth deserves a special shout-out for his hilarious portrayal of Kevin the secretary in the Ghostbusters reboot from 2016.įind series 11 & 12 in Apps & Games > BBC iPlayer Interestingly, there actually aren’t that many instances of male characters who were originally female. The Equalizer certainly hasn’t been the last show (or film) to change a key character’s sex, so here we investigate a few other switcheroos. Lorraine Toussaint ( Concrete Cowboy), Adam Goldberg ( A Beautiful Mind) and Chris Noth ( Sex And The City) also star, with Laya DeLeon Hayes ( Doc McStuffins) playing Robyn’s daughter Delilah. We love to see it! Executive producer Debra Martin Chase said in a video interview, “I have been trying for almost 20 years to bring a Black woman who kicks butt to the screen.”
This reboot gives the original series from the 80s and the films from 20 a run for their money, with Latifah carrying out some of her own stunts, dressed in all black and often riding a motorcycle. When she’s not single-handedly fighting crime, Robyn is also a single mum raising her teenage daughter.
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