EXCLUSIVE: She’s Gotta Have It star DeWanda Wise has landed a co-star role opposite Brie Larson in Captain Marvel, the Anna Boden-Ryan Fleck-directed Marvel superhero pic. She’ll co-star opposite Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law and Ben Mendelsohn. Wise takes the role just as Netflix renewed for a second season She’s Gotta Have It, the series adaptation of Spike Lee’s breakthrough film about a woman balancing a life with three lovers.
It marks the first major movie role for Wise, who previously starred in the series Shots Fired and Underground. She’s repped by UTA and Bold Management & Production.
I swear to God if I watch this movie and they kill her off for what’s her name or turn her into a Falcon type character I’m going to tight
Omg, just found out she’s cast as “
Monica Rambeau
“(Everyone google and get familiar with her quick.)
Oh, hey, Monica-of-the-thousand-codenames-but-one-of-them-was-Captain-Marvel! (Is she still Spectrum right now?)
Monica’s got a very impressive power set, she’s a former Avenger, she’s former law-enforcement, and she’s generally pretty badass. You probably don’t know who she is because, kind of like Carol during her Binary phase, Monica is so powerful that writers don’t know what to do with her. (Also off-the-page stuff like she was created to maintain squatting rights to the name and there was already another black lady superhero in Storm and who needs two?)
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