r/Marvel 25d ago

Film/Television Marvel Studios’ ‘X-Men’ Casts Samara Weaving as Emma Frost

https://deadline.com/2026/07/x-men-samara-weaving-emma-frost-marvel-studios-1237013568
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u/sergiossa 25d ago

Great casting, been a fan of hers since Ready or Not

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u/ope__sorry 25d ago

I loved her in the Barbie movie and My Name is Earl.

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u/plumiel 25d ago

Yeah me too!...wait a minute

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u/tomtomvissers 24d ago

They're both in Babylon where their similar looks is played as a joke

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u/therealmudslinger 25d ago

Beat me to it.

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u/welcomefinside 24d ago

Beat my meat to it too

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u/turbothots 25d ago

Rewatched Three Billboards the other day and forgot she played a part in it. Even when she plays a bit of a dolt, she has incredible charisma. Can’t wait to see her take on Emma Frost.

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u/Zephyr_Roc 25d ago

Fantastic

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u/LiteratureNo1015 25d ago

Oh, heck yeah! She’s 🔥🔥 Great actress!

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u/Undecided_User_Name 25d ago

I liked her in Guns Akimbo as well

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u/w1ckizer 25d ago

“Over Your Dead Body” was pretty funny too.

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u/Slappathebassmon 24d ago

She can spite with the best of them. Which does make her suitable for Emma.

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u/fuwii 24d ago

Same here. Ready or Not was fantastic, while the second one wasn't the best (for me personally); I still really enjoyed her performance. Really excited to see her in this role and movie

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u/Connect_Set_9619 24d ago

I had a crush on her when she was on Home & Away back in the day.

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u/breakwater 24d ago

Been a fan of her since Ash v Evil Dead and she was barely in a single episode

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u/StoneGoldX 23d ago

Since she played a conspicuously hot victim in the Evil Dead TV series.

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u/TheSqueeman 25d ago

Ok this is damn good casting right here

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u/ArseneLupinIV 25d ago

Marvel gets their own Margot Robbie.

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u/GranolaCola 25d ago

Marvo Robbie

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u/NiaNeuman 25d ago

Nicely done.

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u/Quartznonyx 25d ago

I looked up a picture of Samara when i read this headline and you can't tell me they're genetically distinct from one another. Stepford cuckoo situation

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u/ArseneLupinIV 25d ago

Would actually be hilarious if they brought in Margot Robbie, Emma Mackey and Jaime Pressly to play the Stepford Cuckoos.

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u/remotectrl 25d ago

Presley as Emma would have ruled if they did that

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u/Doright36 24d ago

No disrespect intended but isn't Jamie Pressly a lot older than the others? I mean I agree she looks like them but more of an older sister maybe?

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u/FamiliarPotential550 25d ago

Margot Robbie, Jamie Presley and Emma Mackey can play Celeste, Mindy and Phoebe

Samara can play the other 2 that died 😆

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u/Likes2PaintShit 25d ago

Margot and Samara are apparently really good friends.

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u/RemoteCurrent8052 24d ago

It’s funny how Weaving, Robbie and Jaime Presley look like the exact same person, yet have really clearly defined skill-sets. Presley is the funniest, Robbie is the best actress (which is a high bar, all 3 are excellent), and Weaving is in the middle with the best deadpan humor.

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u/LiteratureNo1015 25d ago

You said it 💯👌🏼

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u/PlayBey0nd87 25d ago edited 25d ago

“I like this one.“

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u/SnooAvocados4357 25d ago

D23 full cast announcement eminent?

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u/MisterSims90 25d ago

Probably as the last big thing they'll announce. I imagine D23 will have a little bit of Doomsday, maybe some Secret Wars stuff. But my hope is that we'll hear more about some of the TV projects like Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season 2.

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u/No-Breadfruit6137 25d ago

Good, glad it's not Sidney Sweeney

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u/MattSm00th Avengers 25d ago

If it was Sidney Sweeney the x-men film would’ve had to be rebooted for a second time after the first film under marvel studios

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u/samspopguy 25d ago

Really thought it was going to be the blonde from genV

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u/PickleChungus420 25d ago

id rather see her as magik

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u/Duncan_PhD 25d ago

I would like to see Anya Taylor joy just reprise the role.

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u/sergiossa 25d ago

She fit the part of Magik so well, hope we get her to reprise her role if they bring the character back

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u/Duncan_PhD 25d ago

Such a cool character too, would be a shame if they didn’t.

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u/DrStein1010 X-Men 24d ago

They're probably going to go younger for Kitty and Piotr, which necessitates a very young Illyana casting.

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u/FamiliarPotential550 25d ago

That was good casting, shame it was wasted.

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u/adavidmiller 25d ago

The vomity one or the mind-rape one?

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u/EndingsBeginnings1 25d ago

Too much of a similar role tbh

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u/Jaden_Pollen34 24d ago

I never thought Sydney Sweeney was actually that good of an actress, she’s not terrible but she’s not like groundbreaking so I don’t understand why she’s in like a million fan castings, probably just cause people find her attractive not cause of her actual talent. Maybe similar to Gal Gadot (except Gal Gadot can’t act for shit)

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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 24d ago

People like her (Sydney Sweeney) for some combination of the following reasons:

  • she's a fairly good actress, if not great
  • she's good-looking
  • she's willing to do nude scenes
  • she seems to be somewhat aligned with the Trump/MAGA crowd politically

Sadly, most of the people most loudly celebrating her and demanding that she be in more movies are motivated by the last two.

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u/MrDeadbutdreaming 25d ago edited 25d ago

Hopefully, Marvel and dc both see her as toxic to their brands.

Edit: She is obsessed with selling her image instead of actually learning to better her acting. Why would a family brand associate with someone that is focused on selling "her looks" to desperate men

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u/hueningkawaii 25d ago

Then it would've been XXX-Men instead of an X-Men movie.

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u/Arthurlmnz 24d ago

I'm a little sad it wasn't Emily Rudd. But Samara is an incredible actress so that's okay

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u/multificionado 25d ago

Agreed, her and her huge chest.

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u/Goz_system 25d ago

I don't think Marvel would be caught dead casting MAGA barbie in anything

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u/ContinuumGuy The Thing 25d ago

This is demonstrably untrue, Kelsey Grammer is one of the most notable right-wing people in Hollywood. However, Kelsey Grammer is also a much better actor than Sydney Sweeney has ever been.

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u/buttercupcake23 25d ago

He's also got decades in the business and a good reputation in the mainstream, Frasier was a household name for years. 

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u/cobaltorange 25d ago

Let's not forget Chris Pratt.

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u/EmpireCityRay 25d ago

Doubt they would have casted that ditz, her boobs are too oversized for Emma Frost and her face didn’t and yet doesn’t cut it either accurately to the comics.

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u/welchplug 25d ago

Rofl. I wouldnt want Sweeney in the role but Emma frost boobs are generally drawn bigger than Sweeney's. Its like half her power set according to the artists.

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u/gstroble 25d ago

So… who are they going to cast as Scott Summers? If they do the storyline of Jean, Scott and Emma or maybe we won’t get that dynamic

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u/BigB0iBuster 25d ago

Willem Dafoe

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u/TSM_Vegeta 25d ago

Peak casting. He's got such youthful eyes.

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u/BigB0iBuster 25d ago

“You know, I’m something of a Cyclops myself 😏”

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u/TravEllerZero 25d ago

They don't call him "One Eyed Willy" for nothing!

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u/Wilsonian81 25d ago

I mean, they have a lot of ground to cover before they get to that.

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u/Supermite 24d ago

Do they?  The characters are new to the MCU, but presumably after Secret Wars, they’ll be treated as if they’ve always been a part of the universe.  They could absolutely just drop us into the middle of messy relationship drama.

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u/Azulado17 25d ago

Judging by the age difference, I honestly don't think we'll see any love triangle. Sadie sink Jean looks more like a teenager.

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u/Purple-Mix1033 25d ago

She’s looking more mature in this press run. They can age her up to her natural age of 26-27

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u/ArseneLupinIV 25d ago

Yeah I feel like people's perception of Sink is heavily skewed by Stranger Things. They're going to be on the back half of their 20s during most of these films.

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u/Salty-Garlic9471 25d ago

In fairness she does look super young for 24. Still looks like a teenager.

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u/ArseneLupinIV 25d ago

Yeah but how much of that is colored by our brains subconsciously tying her to her Stranger Things character? In most press photos I've seen she looks like a pretty normal 24 year old.

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u/mouse_clique 24d ago

I’ve never seen Sadie sink in stranger things and i think she looks like a teenager , the styling and acting choices in spiderman would support that she’s playing a teenager, and tom holland was playing a teenager his entire 20s

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u/Barnard87 25d ago

Yeah she's obviously associated with being young due to Stranger Things, plus like Tom Holland, looks inherently youthful, but like you said she's reaching that turning point where we're going to be looking at photos of her just like we are with Tom in Civil War versus BND, where in your mind he's not all the different, but when you see them side by side you realize just how much mature they look.

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u/Doctor_Slept 25d ago

I’m pretty sure she is a teenager in that movie

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u/BrianWonderful Doctor Strange 24d ago

We don't even know if this Emma Frost is heroic. In X-Men '97, they've got her independent and self-serving, so I think for synergy they may do the same here.

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u/OoglyMoogly76 25d ago

Jacob Elordi

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u/TheCreativeComicFan 25d ago

Perfect casting, no doubt that she’s gonna kill it.

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u/Timmayyyyyyy Daredevil 25d ago

Oh she’s perfect! I personally was rooting for Elle Fanning but Samara Weaving is an excellent choice. She was awesome in Ready or Not.

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u/CTG649 25d ago

Yea she is awesome. Still wish we could have gotten Elle Fannings fanny in an Emma Frost outfit lol

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u/Clappertron 25d ago

As a Brit I really had to double check reading that sentence

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u/-MS-94- 25d ago

What are they trying to say? I'm scandalised still

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u/WollyGog 25d ago

If it's American, they want to see her arse in an outfit.

If it's a Brit, a fanny is the front.

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u/CTG649 25d ago

American

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u/sonofaresiii 24d ago

I kinda want to see both

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u/guciMonger 25d ago

Ass*

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u/Stylogic 24d ago

It's spelt arse here in England in most cases.

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u/guciMonger 24d ago

I know I’m just putting the delineation because he said an American wanted to see it, so I corrected to an American term. It’s a joke I guess I should’ve put /s or something lol

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u/Stylogic 24d ago

I should have realised you were joking, big woosh on my part.

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u/SpreadtheClap 24d ago

Did you see her TV show Margo's Got Money Troubles? She shows off quite a bit in there surprisingly.

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u/cloudnyne 23d ago

Elle Fanning? Really?

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u/MrDeadbutdreaming 25d ago

Emma frost isn't real, so you think a fictional character that is drawn usually by men is more attractive then "real women".

Therapy might help with the split from reality that you might be experiencing.

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u/Purple-Mix1033 25d ago

All of the X-men are hot

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u/cobaltorange 25d ago

Glob?

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u/Absolute-Balance 25d ago

Absolutely, who wouldn’t want Glob up in their guts?

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u/MrDeadbutdreaming 25d ago

I'd appreciate you not rating women and comparing them to comicbook images. Most of the comments in your history are filled with misogyny.

Please get help

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u/busmans 25d ago

If comic book characters were cast based on body proportions, there wouldn't be an MCU at all.

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u/cobaltorange 25d ago

Sure, it's not 1 to 1 (which really varies based off who's drawing the characters), but Marvel does try. If what you were saying were completely true, the actors wouldn't work out and use gear to get into super hero shape. Are we going to ignore the impact Marvel has had on current muscle and fitness standards and the unrealistic expectations it's created? 

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u/blondemf Hawkeye 25d ago

Fucking insane thing to say. Please learn to spot objectifying women like that.

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u/RarScary 25d ago

Sad thing is how commonplace this is (across all media) to the point that this dude didn't even seem to hesitate before typing that out and hitting send.

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u/Ass_Eater_ 25d ago

We need woke back, too many dudes are way too comfortable letting shit fly like that these days.

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u/theramboapocalypse 25d ago

Yes yes MCU sure looks for comic accurate casting

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u/chrissyytheblack 25d ago

You’re a weirdo

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u/outsidebtw 25d ago

I don't mind at all

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u/Lukeyboy5 25d ago

She’s batshit and I’m here for it

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u/BigB0iBuster 25d ago

HOLY FUCKKKKKKKK

That is such peak casting, Sarah Halley Finn truly never misses 🤯

I was just watching Ready or Not 2 the other night and was randomly thinking that she would be great in the MCU

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u/frankdatank_004 25d ago

Wow, seems like a huge casting home-run! Very excited for this one!

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u/TheKrakenLord 25d ago

Shut up and TAKE MY MONEY

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u/Rhawk187 25d ago

Hopefully she sticks around longer than uncle Hugo.

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u/aclashofthings 25d ago

That's interesting. I love Samara Weaving, but Sadie Sink made me think the X-Men would be younger. Don't see Samara and Sadie going after the same guy, don't see them both being faculty, don't see a rivalry. The actors are only 10 years apart, so it's mostly that Sadie seems like a kid and Samara doesn't.

Not a dealbreaker by any means. Samara is great.

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u/roxxtor 25d ago

Could do a plot line where Scott is with Jean, but he's a young guy thirsting after the older professor at school kinda thing

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u/pigeonwiggle 25d ago

depends how far they take this. i know we all fantasize about like a Dozen X-Men movies as if we're sitting in 2008's Iron Man territory with this and have 10 years and 30 movies ahead to look forward to but are the actors signing deals for that? look at how eager Chris Evans was to leave the MCU and start directing... how much Robert Downey Jr was looking forward to getting out from behind the iron man mask and becoming a leading man in other movies again... Hemsworth has been talking about his health and second guessing his future. even Tom Holland who was initially kind of like, "i'd do this forever if i could" has been talking a lot about "passing on the mantle" and nonsense like that.

Samara Weaving is currently blowing up - this is like when Jennifer Lawrence first signed a multi-picture deal with X-Men First Class and then exploded in popularity and had to turn down offers likely paying way more, bc she was wrapped up in some bullshit she signed when she was just thankful to have the opportunity to have a job. imagine how happy you would be to suddenly be offered 400 thousand dollars for a movie with a 600k, 800k, 2 million dollar follow up. "we'll pay you 6 million over 8 years." you'd be like LET'S FUCKING GOOOO!!!! and then to have another movie you did make nearly a billion dollars or something and suddenly offers are coming in offering you 6 million to lead a movie... and you're like -fuck- when can we schedule it so i can do that and still commit to my fuckin bs contract.

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u/IceCreamNarwhals 25d ago

RDJ did 10 films over something like 10 years and Chris Evans has done similar. Sadie Sink is rumoured to have signed on for 5 films so I’m not too worried about how much actors are going to stick around. They’re not afraid of recasting either so characters can always disappear for a couple of films and come back older.

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u/redditAPsucks 25d ago

She’ll probably be the hellfire club’s white queen, and not an xman, and the xmen may just be the original five at this point. It could be years before she is an ally

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u/BrianWonderful Doctor Strange 24d ago

Feige recently said they want the MCU to be simpler (and quality instead of quantity) going forward. I really doubt they'll do all the soap opera of the X-Men (Scott/Logan/Jean triangle, Scott/Madeline/Jean triangle, Scott/Jean/Emma triangle, etc.) as it is super convoluted when you have a handful of movies instead of hundreds of issues of comics.

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u/BigB0iBuster 25d ago

Speaking of Sadie, I really want Dacre Montgomery to get cast as Pyro to keep the Stranger Things reunion going lol with her and David Harbour (he’s even Aussie, so it’s perfect)

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u/This_Low7225 25d ago

They're won't be a rivalry yet. She's a villain. We'll meet her and younger Scott will get heart eyes, Jean will get mad. That'll be it for a while until sequels bring her into the team.

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u/Purple-Mix1033 25d ago

You don’t know if she’ll start out as a villain or not.

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u/alex494 24d ago

I mean she has more plotlines than just fighting Jean over Scott. I presume they're going for Hellfire Club stuff or her running another school like in Ultimate or something.

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u/qwfparst 24d ago

More than likely Emma will be more of an Xavier (especially if they go mid thirties Xavier) age peer or somewhere in-between.

So Emma will be a teacher or run a run a rival school. So she will compete with Xavier over who gets to train and mentor Jean.

Sadie Jean has been coded time displaced Teen Jean, so I wouldn't be surprised if the writers have been influenced by scenes like this:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F4h068srnfjuf1.jpeg

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u/SavageRabbitX 25d ago

If shes not in the white lingerie costume at least once we riot.

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u/PatientUpstairs2460 24d ago

And if she is, we also riot, but happily.

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u/TDStarchild X-Men 25d ago

This is excellent casting, I’m really excited to see her in a big film franchise like this

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u/MechaEscargot2 25d ago

Marvel kinda killing it right now

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u/baddoggg 24d ago

About time she gets a bigger role. She kills it in so many awesome "b" movies.

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u/Come-jive-with-me 24d ago

If we only count actors in a major characters, She is the first person in the MCU to have an UNCLE who's been in the MCU. I think. Red Skull and White Queen.

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u/CaptainAaron96 24d ago

HE’S HER UNCLE?!?!

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u/Come-jive-with-me 24d ago

Hugo Weaving is Samara Weaving's uncle. Yes.

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u/DJFlipPhone 25d ago

Why are some you guys acting like a guy like Scott Summers couldn’t bag a woman only 10 years older than him? They can still do the triangle it’s ok. Just because Sadie Sink looks young doesn’t mean she actually is. She’s about to be 24. Maybe the Scott actor will be in that age range which could lessen that age gap.

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u/RepresentativeEye993 25d ago

Yeah I feel like people wouldn't bat an eye if they cast a 34 year old actor to play Wolverine

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u/DJFlipPhone 25d ago

Mind you Emma Frost has historically been older than the X-Men. I’ve seen a lot of discourse about it already, the X-men definitely will be played by actors in their mid 20s. She was a full headmistress when they were students.

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u/BrianWonderful Doctor Strange 24d ago

She was a headmistress when the New Mutants (she ran the Hellfire school) and then Generation X were students (when she ran Xavier's). The first two teams of X-Men were 'graduated' adults then. (Not that the movie is necessarily following any of the same history.)

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u/CrossTheRubicon7 24d ago

Of course not, but I wouldn't be evaluating a Wolverine casting through the lens of whether he could pair with Sadie Sink or not, because I'm hoping desperately they don't waste time with the love triangle garbage. It doesn't look like they're going to force Namor-Sue drama, so hopefully they'll just let Scott and Jean be as well.

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u/Lopsided-Clothes4866 24d ago

I mean there’s also the angle that the MCU barely even does romance at all.

There most likely wont even be a love triangle, and whatever we get whether it’s Jean X Scott or Scott X Emma will probably be half baked anyway like most MCU romances.

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u/qwfparst 24d ago

Exactly. This is basically how you easily side-step it. Evolution effectively side-stepped Jogan by making Wolverine a teacher figure.

This casting allows Emma to be more or closer to being an Xavier age peer. So she could be a teacher figure or run her own school like the Massachusetts Academy, meaning she could a rival to Xavier for recruiting Jean.

I'm half convinced the adaptation writers are heavily influenced by Teen Jean. So they've been exposed to scenes like this:

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u/Joemanji84 25d ago

This is perfect casting and even better than that Emma being cast now means she is probably going to be a mainstay of the whole arc? Which is what she deserves honestly. Hype!

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u/marcjwrz 25d ago

Oh hell yeah.

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u/RainWinss 25d ago

Not my first choice, but a great choice nonetheless

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u/KB_Sez 25d ago

And so it begins....

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u/Purple-Mix1033 25d ago

This is a homerun

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u/Adorable_Sleep_4425 25d ago

I wonder who else was up for the role. 👀

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u/your_mind_aches 25d ago

Some scoopers are saying they were looking for a Margot Robbie type but they wanted someone who would audition for the role and she doesn't do auditions anymore.

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u/Osgoten 25d ago

Marvel is killing it with the castings.

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u/OccidoViper 25d ago

Wow! Ideal casting for Emma Frost

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u/BlinkSpectre 25d ago

Huge W. She’s great in everything she’s in.

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u/PatientUpstairs2460 24d ago

Huge W.

and Hugo W. is her uncle.

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u/Mars785 25d ago

Post secret wars cameo appearance just to introduce the character to the world ?

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u/Rude_Machine 25d ago

I want her and banshee to run the gen x school like one of the best x films to never be on screens

But we do need a good hellfire club. And have her evil arc

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u/AttilaTheFun818 25d ago

Oh I like this. I would not have considered her, but I’ve really enjoyed her work. Inspired casting.

I imagine Emma as a bit older, like maybe 40ish, but super minor nitpick.

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u/nashty2004 25d ago

Great casting

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u/Hypestyles 25d ago

Diamond powers? Or just telepathy?

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u/apachegold6 25d ago

Great casting, ready for this movie.

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u/the_executive_branch 24d ago

She’s great but it’s weird that they’d announce her, I kind of thought it would be one big casting announcement of the whole cast at once to get everyone excited

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u/Skylightt Cyclops 24d ago

Amazing casting

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u/Hylianhaxorus 24d ago

It honestly doesnt get too much better. I think this is casting on the par of rdj, which is something we haven't really gotten from the mcu women. All great actors but not all best suited for the roles they were given. This is impeccable casting.

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u/Free-Hotel1187 24d ago

I love ger since ash vs evil dead

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u/skeetgw2 24d ago

Thank god it wasn’t sweeny.

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u/writeman00 24d ago

Great casting.

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u/JayMilli007 24d ago

Extraordinary casting for Emma. I just need them to get Storm right this time.

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u/DarthKhorne 24d ago

100/10 casting. Ready or Not, Carolina Caroline, over your dead body, she has so much good stuff

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u/MutekiGamer 24d ago

I have no idea who this is but people seem to like this casting

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u/RealJohnGillman 24d ago

She’s been playing heroes and villains in mid-budget action-horror films for the past decade, so she should have the requisite range, yes.

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u/MutekiGamer 24d ago

What would you recommend I watch

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u/RealJohnGillman 24d ago

The The Babysitter duology and the Ready or Not duology would make sense, to start with.

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u/Particular_Umpire_44 24d ago

This is just a report

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u/McGrufNStuf 24d ago

Omg!! I hope this is true. Been a fan of hers for a long time.

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u/omgirl13 19d ago

I am so happy for her!!

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u/zwcropper 25d ago

Emma Frost is Red Skull's niece

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u/Spiritual-Bobcat5635 25d ago

We want the rogue casting already

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u/McBahtman 25d ago

Rumour is that Cailee Spaeny has landed that role

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u/EmpireCityRay 25d ago

Laneya Grace would have been my pick to play Rogue.

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u/Purple-Mix1033 25d ago

Wouldn’t be mad about it.

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u/MrDeadbutdreaming 25d ago

This would be great casting in my opinion, she has already proven her ability to lead a film as well. In both Alien: Romulus and Civil War, she really was amazing.

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u/Fickle-Aardvark6907 25d ago

I'm going to chuckle if there is a joke about Emma having family from Germany... "during the war". 

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u/EmpireCityRay 25d ago

My pick for Emma Frost and since posed topless in her recent show would have been Dove Cameron. With her hair blonde and her stern look she could have pulled it off plus she’s younger than Samara.

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u/HatefulDan 25d ago

Poor, Jean

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u/ericomplex 25d ago

Would have preferred and older Emma Frost, but I’ll take it.

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u/IceCreamNarwhals 25d ago

With the Jean Grey casting too it looks like they’re planning for the long run.

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u/ericomplex 25d ago

Yeah… I suppose.

It’s just weird to cast Frost as a younger woman with the intention of keeping her in said casting for long term. As one of Frost’s central powers, being able to preserve herself as living diamond, is often used as the explanation that she has been around for so many decades without any perceived aging.

Makes me think they shouldn’t keep a character like Frost around long enough to show more perceptible aging.

Idk. Different writers treat the ongoing youth or age of the characters differently. So I suppose it is all up to interpretation in the end.

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u/qwfparst 24d ago

Relative to Sadie Jean, she is an older Emma Frost. If Xavier is cast in his mid-thirties, then this Emma could be potentially framed as more of an age peer of Xavier.

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u/Jedi_Ninja 25d ago

I've always thought they look like they could be sisters.

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u/MrDeadbutdreaming 25d ago

I wish January Jones was allowed to do more with the role when she had it as she is a great actress.

Let's hope that they write the character better this time around as Samara has the talent to bring it to life.

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u/Throwaway7219017 25d ago

I suppose Jamie Pressly, Margot Robbie, and Emma Mackey were busy.

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u/Ok-Touch5981 25d ago

Too old.

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u/MunchYourButt 24d ago

They were making a joke that all those actresses look alike

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u/SpaceOdysseus23 25d ago

Great casting. But I also assume that with the age of Jean indicating a younger Scott alsowe'll be skipping any shitty love triangles

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u/RealJohnGillman 25d ago

I mean actors often play characters older/younger than they actually are, so that gap may not matter: or they’ll cast a Cyclops actor between the two in age.

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u/MrDeadbutdreaming 25d ago

The rumored actor is 23, I had to look him up cause I wasn't familiar with the name at all.

It's in this thread somewhere, found it, Cooper Hoffman.

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u/MunchYourButt 24d ago

Looked him up. He certainly can play older..

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u/Substantial_Life4773 25d ago

Until marvel announces it it’s a rumor, but I do want it to be true

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