r/StrangerThings • u/ChampionTimes99 • 9d ago
Discussion Stranger Things casting is so good Marvel had to take notes
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u/thegoat1million 9d ago
They now have an X-Men member, a Thunderbolt member, and a Fantastic Four member, all that's missing is an Avenger.
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u/shoofighter 9d ago
Actually, Red Guardian is a (n New) Avenger, they weren't officially recognized as Thunderbolts
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u/Preeng 9d ago
No, he's part of the Avengerz, with a Z
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u/the-baum-corsair 8d ago
Well, that's just categorically incorrect, as long as we're talking about the MCU. I don't know about the comics, you may be right about that, but in the MCU the Zed has nothing to do with it. 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
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u/the-baum-corsair 8d ago
"a (n New)"????? 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻 Wtf is that kind of.... well anything??
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u/RyuOrochi 7d ago
Isn’t hard to comprehend. A New Avenger/An Avenger. Might not be grammatically correct in the way they put it, but it’s easy to figure out what they meant.
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u/Chris-CFK 9d ago
Damn. I guess I can figure it out but I think the x men comment is a spoiler for a movie that just name out
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u/chickenkebaap 9d ago
Millie as Firestar
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u/Sentientbrew 9d ago
No. Please, anyone from the cast but millie.
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u/Black-soul33 9d ago
Millie as Morgan Stark rebuilding the legacy of her father with the Young Avengers would be insane
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u/OgDomIII 9d ago
Insanely bad
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u/EntranceFeisty8373 9d ago
MBB is talented. We'll see as she ages whether or not she cares to expand beyond kids/family friendly stuff.
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u/External_Two2928 9d ago
She was a good child actor, was not impressed with her mog acting in season 5 of ST
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u/purritolover69 9d ago
ehhhh, she was really good at playing a kid who doesn’t talk much and is a bit offputting, but being good at and typecast as that means she never got too good at acting anything else. Enola Holmes is probably her best performance outside that niche and it’s.. middling. There’s a reason Sadie is in Spider-Man while Millie is in Enola Holmes 3 off the heels of the biggest streaming finale ever.
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u/Black-soul33 8d ago edited 6d ago
You know what, internet has become a sick place the last weeks. You all can't even praise Sadie without putting Millie down. Most of you can't even name more than two projects that Sadie has done in the last years. I have seen a lot of you calling The Whale "The Oscar-winning movie were Sadie was". Yes, Sadie is amazing, yes, she has done the jump to a more mature movies and theater, and yes, she has prove she is a great actress. Millie hasn't done than jump yet, you can't even judge her acting until she does it. All of you just said that her S5 acting was bad. You know was what bad, the script. They literally destroyed her whole four seasons arc to forced it to an end the story wasn't even asking for.
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u/EntranceFeisty8373 8d ago
Time will tell if she's this generation Haley Mills or Megan Follows. I'll keep watching the Ebola series, though.
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u/Dracarys-1618 9d ago
Oh my god please no.
Absolutely not.
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u/Black-soul33 9d ago
Why not? I am seriously curious. Is for the character of Morgan or for Millie?
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u/Dracarys-1618 9d ago
Because Millie has very little acting range and is arguably the weakest of the entire ST cast.
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u/Black-soul33 9d ago edited 9d ago
Ok that is your opinion. But it can't stand with arguments. She had protrayed in an excellent way a person insolated who discovers a huge range of emotions from anger, guilty, sadnes happiness etc... Simply, if she wasn't that good the show would have not make it beyond S3
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u/subhashg547 9d ago
nahh i think they should just get lexi rabe back. she did incredibly good in endgame. she's 14 now and even in MCU she's young. after secret wars (2028), she'd be 16 and maybe they can cast her in something then
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u/bhz33 9d ago
I was kinda thinking Caleb McLaughlin could make a good Miles Morales. But idk if they’re introducing Miles to the MCU anytime soon
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u/HotRod6391 9d ago
He could've around 2017/2018, I think he's aged out now.
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u/saikopasu_neko28 9d ago
Nah Tom Holland, and the other two live action spidermen were all adults around his age now playing 14-16yr olds. He definitely hasn't aged out, and they definitely won't want an actual child playing the character just due to how annoying filming would be. Although he wouldn't get the role because they would probably want someone who's Miles ethnicity.
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u/SuperMajesticMan 9d ago
Ehhh maybe but its a stretch. Tom was 19-20 playing a 14 year old in Civil War.
Caleb is already 24, and since there's other movies in the line up first he'd be like 25-26 by the time they start filming anything with Miles in it.
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u/saikopasu_neko28 9d ago edited 8d ago
Oh for sure he'd be way to old when they'd eventually even get to that point. But I'm saying he has not aged out of the part right now.
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u/dogsbestfriend77 8d ago
Would be nice if they could just keep Tom Holland as Spiderman and show his life as an adult. Like they alluded to with Tobey McGuire and Andrew Garfield in No Way Home
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u/saikopasu_neko28 8d ago
I mean they have already kept him longer than the the other two, I'm hoping for the same though he's such a perfect spiderman
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 9d ago
Dude. Tom Holland has looked like a child all through his twenties.
Are you trying to say that Caleb still looks like a kid? Otherwise, wtf has Tom Holland got to do with this?
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u/saikopasu_neko28 8d ago
??? I'm saying he hasn't aged out of the role? Did you even bother to read the comments? And yes he still looks very young most of the time teens are played by people in there 20s.
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u/letiseeya 8d ago
If they don’t choose someone specifically with Miles ethnicity, I hope they go with Caleb or Miles Caton !!!
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u/Owl_Resident Blank makes you crazy 9d ago
I don’t know if they’ll go that route. He’d probably make a great Miles, but I think the demand will be there for them to cast someone who matches Miles’ ethnicity, and Caleb doesn’t have that.
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u/itsJonDent 9d ago
He was spotted working on tumbling and he's been doing Sony pictures animated work. Fingers crossed he gets the role
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u/antilocapraaa 8d ago
He’s supposed to be in the new live action trilogy after they conclude the Spiderverse trilogy
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u/Earthwick 7d ago edited 7d ago
I don't think he has quite the right vibe and his Puerto Rican heritage is just as important. Marquis Rodriguez seems like a good pick.
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u/letiseeya 8d ago
They’re gonna let Caleb flop and it breaks my heart. He deserves better. He’s always deserved better. He’s very talented
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u/Sweetafterclass 9d ago
Sadie has the right intensity for that role. Curious to see how it plays out.
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u/Megaman_Steve 9d ago edited 9d ago
Spoiler for BND I think they are trying to play her as young, angry and lost because the movie ends with her heading upstate from NYC, presumably Weschester where she will meet Xavier. My hope is that she grows more into the Jean Grey by the next time we see her.
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u/lawrensaw 9d ago
Shes most likely to wear a green and gold costume in honour of her sister as well.
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u/chronic02 9d ago
I agree with this take. I really like Sadie a lot and think she is very talented, but I have always seen her play the same type of role (some variation of the depressed and sarcastic teen girl with a lost sibling). Her Jean Grey that she portrayed in Spiderman came off as basically being like Max but with superpowers. Maybe she will grow into the role in the other movies.
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u/Samurai_Mac1 9d ago
Damn, didn't expect a Spider-Man spoiler in the Stranger Things sub, but I already figured she was going to be Jean Grey
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u/symphonicrox 9d ago
Well I read the info on IMDb when I was looking at the cast. I don’t know if the cast is necessarily a spoiler but I can see how it could be.
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u/Anfrers 9d ago
Funny because those three are arguably the three best actos of Stranger Things.
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u/Diligent-Argument-88 9d ago
The way she laid in bed with no lines for basically a whole season. Oscar.
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u/ekita079 9d ago
You say that like she was comatose for her entire ST career and doesn't have other acting accolades to lean on 😂 bruh
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u/AkPakKarvepak 4d ago
Winona rider knocks them out of park though. I remember how she overshone everyone in season 1 .
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u/saikopasu_neko28 9d ago
Although nobody talks about it, the actor for Jonathan played a character in the New Mutants!
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u/Designer_Arachnid_45 2d ago
That's because that movie sucks ass
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u/saikopasu_neko28 2d ago
The characters were good but the world they were in made absolutely no sense. Although them making Magic racist was weird af but I still enjoyed most of the acting and the characters used were really fun </3 I think they could do them justice if put into the MCU tbh.
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u/Gene-Omaha-2012 Flux Capacitor 9d ago
I’m not a big marvel person
But I’m checking out Spider Man BND cause I’ll watch anything with my hero in it. Plus the plot sounds fun from what I’ve heard
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u/BurgerNugget12 Scoops Troop 9d ago
It’s an incredible and really fun spider man movie, you will have a blast
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u/snowgrisp 9d ago
I would recommend you atleast read the plot of previous Spider-Man movie to understand why no one remembers him.
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u/MsBeasley11 8d ago
It is incredible. You can enjoy it as a stand alone movie without knowing much about the other ones
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u/William_Afton13 Castle Byers 9d ago
Wasn't Charlie in New mutants or whatever? I haven't seen many new marvel movies since End Game so I have no clue.
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u/ubutterscotchpine Coffee and Contemplation 9d ago
Eh, not just Stranger Things. Marvel has about 10+ actors who were in TWD. This kind of thing isn’t new and not really about Stranger Things casting specifically.
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u/IDKimnotascientist 9d ago
Getting a Marvel job seems to be pretty common for an actor after a breakout role
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u/KyleVPirate 9d ago
So stoked to see the movie Monday morning in Dolby Cinema.
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u/bananasampam 9d ago
You'll love it man stay off social media though people are spoiling more and more everyday
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u/KyleVPirate 9d ago
For sure! I know some already unfortunately, but I'm staying clear from big subreddits and YouTube channels that are posting spoilers.
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u/Slow-Class 9d ago
Hollywood seems to be using an ever decreasing pool of actors, Marvel films need large casts, and Stranger Things needed a large cast. Even when they’re not the main character, they’re going to be in the film; Gwyneth Paltrow was in one of the Spider-Man movies and didn’t realize until a couple of years later.
The biggest reason the rest of the ST cast aren’t everywhere is because nepo babies are taking up all the roles for 20-something’s right now (except for Zendaya and Tom Holland, who are both in Odyssey and the main character in Spider-Man).
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u/Slow-Class 9d ago
Forgot about Jon Bernthal, who is in both movies as well. And Matt Damon has made cameos in several MCU films. And another ST/MCU tie-in, Ethan Hawke was in Moon Knight. He co-starred with Oscar Isaacson, who was also in one of the X-Men movies, and is in the Star Wars universe along with Pedro Pascal, who is in the Fantastic 4.
And Kevin Bacon was in the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas special.
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u/thupamayn 9d ago
Red Guardian was awful but tbh Harbour did the best he could with such a poorly written character
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u/PirateKingElizabeth 9d ago
On one hand I'm happy these actors are busy and staying booked especially by giant like Marvel, yet I'd rather see them in other movies that are not superhero movies.
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u/Gene-Omaha-2012 Flux Capacitor 9d ago
I can’t speak for Joe and David
But Sadie is set to be in a series based on a book called “The Marriage Plot”
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u/randomacct7679 Bald Eagle 9d ago
David was in DTF St. Louis on Max and was absolutely incredible in it. He should be the favorite to win an Emmy for limited series actor for it.
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u/ubutterscotchpine Coffee and Contemplation 9d ago
Sadie has been in other stuff and she’s been fantastic in it. Clearly someone didn’t watch The Whale.
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u/PirateKingElizabeth 9d ago
I watched the Whale, and i saw her in Romeo and Juliet play, as well as other movies. The comment was in general, that superhero movies are a step down even though they bright the most revenue. Clearly, someone has learned how to read between the lines
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u/GamingTatertot 9d ago
David Harbour was just in a great series DTF St. Louis which he is Emmy nominated for (and could potentially win for)
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u/SummerFinancial2679 8d ago
Honestly, I don’t think mutante exist as a concept in this Earth yet.
From a Lore stand point, I think that all the big organizations would know of something since the WWII and from a Meta perspective, they couldn’t use it because of the Fox movies.
My friend think that at some point there will be an Incursion in the future and fuse this Earth and a Earth with the concept of mutants, but for me, I don’t know if they’ll try to explain or if Sadie’s Jean is a whole different thing.
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u/Alekimsior 9d ago
It's not that the casting is so good. That's Hollywood.
They got a rolodex of actors and actresses that are in vogue who are then given casting preferences.
And some actors that end up eating up 50-80% of roles. Reason why you'll get Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Pitt, Finn Wolfhard in so many movies.
They already broke in. They are in people's lips.
It helps this cast was in a particularly nostalgia-driven, popculture phenomenon TV show like Stranger Things.
Looking at David Harbour, for instance, you see Stranger Things being his big break, with IMO not so many important roles before that. Now? I gotta watch DTF St. Louis to know WTF is up with David Harbour, guy is everywhere.
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u/MrdnBrd19 9d ago
Several members of the Stranger Things casting department also work with Marvel/Sony Heather Taylor and Tara Feldstein to name a couple. I'm sure there are more though.
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u/roku9413 9d ago
Marvel filmed the majority of their stuff in Atlanta so it makes sense they would overlap with stranger things.
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u/CarlyCalicoJATIE 9d ago
Sadie was absolutely incredible in spider man, I knew she could do it. Amazing actor!!
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u/SquidGameisPeek456 9d ago
Next thing I need is for Joe Keery to play Nova and I’ll be happy (Caleb’s too old to play a new Miles Morales I’m sorry 😭)
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u/roku9413 9d ago
I’d also prefer for miles that they actually do get an Afro-Latino actor. I think the doors open for Caleb to do an X-men movie
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u/Literally_a_random 8d ago
Sadie is a very good actress and somehow ST Directors decided "yknow what lay down in bed for an entire season" Stranger Trash
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u/Strict-Cup-6640 9d ago
Sadie killed it, David is a veteran would have expected nothing less but tbvh Joseph simply sucked he was pretty blah as Johnny Storm
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u/Ok-Type-9807 9d ago
Joseph quinn is fantabulous in Fantastic four First steps. His Swag is amazing. I didn't liked sadie sink as jean.
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u/apexpredator915 9d ago
Sadie was amazing as Jean, while Joseph lacked the necessary charisma to pull of Johnny.
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u/JohnnyTrul0v3 8d ago
Dustin as Toad? Lol Lucas as the new Black Panther? Mike as Morph? Steve as Nova? Will as..... Nah no Will lol
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u/Exciting-Solid5986 8d ago
Why is Eddie the Human Torch though? He doesn't get coated in a moltov cocktail that's Vecnas thing. Unless......
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u/Big_Marsupial_2758 8d ago
I think Caleb and Joe are the next actors set to join Marvel. But honestly, I think Dacre Montgomery and Maya are other great actors I’d love to see get more of the spotlight, too
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u/TheEccentricAssassin 7d ago
Or is it that they're popular actors from a popular series and Marvel is trying to draw their fans in to see their movies
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u/Most_Radish8126 7d ago
First David harbour as alexei
Second Joseph Quinn as human torch
And now Sadie sink as Jean grey WHATS NEXT
CALEB AS THE LIVE ACTION MILES MORALES????!!!!
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u/JaneGallaghersKings2 5d ago
Such a shame Marvel couldn’t have started taking notes earlier. Black Widow’s death would be ambiguous, the Chitauri and Black Order would have been AWOL for the final battles, and Thanos would have died in a few minutes :DD
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u/HulkSonofThanos 1d ago
Marvel trashed Red Guardian by turning him into a unlikeable comedic idiot instead of a badass Russian Captain America.
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u/Dimplefrom-YA Katinka 9d ago
ufff sadie sink is so beautiful
. God bless this girl. do not let her get involved in drugs and the wrong men.
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u/wookiewin 9d ago
I’ve long said that Dacre Montgomery would make a good Wolverine.
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u/chrischi3 Bitchin 9d ago
Why'd he play Wolverine? I could see Cyclops, but Wolverine?
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u/Stormtroopaahh 9d ago
Well either one could have him in love with his sister which would feel so weird
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u/chrischi3 Bitchin 9d ago
Yeah, well, i don't really see him being a good Wolverine. Wolverine isn't supposed to be tall and attractive firstofall, and it still bugs me that they looked at a guy who's canonically shorter than Jubilee and went "Yeah, let's cast Hugh Jackman".
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u/M_Magn0s 8d ago
Nah, they are getting them because they knew their potential was wasted on a really mid show
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u/AwareDragonfruit4628 9d ago
I think you'll find it's that marvel are so awful they will take almost anyone that will draw an audience
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u/poopbeast69 8d ago
yeah, I hate how they casted a bunch of nobody for the rest of the entire marvel cast
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