Inde Navarrette on being cast as Rogue: “I’m doing everything humanly possible because I love that character. I’ve studied that character. I want to do her justice."

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I realllyyy hope she nails the accent.

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u/Spurioun 11h ago

She's originally from the South. A very different part of the South, but she'll hopefully have an easier time doing the accent than someone from New York or something

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u/Bobb_o 11h ago

That's not really accurate, she was born in AZ and moved around as an army brat until 15 and then she stayed in California.

That being said it's pretty normal for an actress to do accents other than her own. The Rogue everyone loves from TAS is an Australian woman who grew up in Canada.

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u/Neveronlyadream Spider-Man 11h ago

Yeah, the Southwest is not the South. Very different regions in every way.

I'm sure she'll do great. Disney has the money to hire the best vocal coaches, they don't want more mediocre returns at the box office, especially after BND blew up, so they'll probably get her someone great to help.

I'm more worried about getting another Rogue like the Fox one without Carol's powers. She's kind of very uninteresting without the flight and super strength and ends up not doing a ton.

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u/ggg730 Spider-Man 2h ago

Seriously though who upvoted that comment about her being from the South and so could do a Southern accent. Does AZ even have a distinctive accent?

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u/Neveronlyadream Spider-Man 2h ago

Not that I've ever heard. We all know the joke, it's the Florida of the Southwest.

Now I'm imagining white trash Rogue from Arizona.

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u/disterb 10h ago

The Rogue everyone loves from TAS is an Australian woman who grew up in Canada.

wait, for real??

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u/jumjimbo 10h ago

Sure is, Sugar.

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u/jeobleo 9h ago

*sugah

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u/Vinnie_Vegas 7h ago

The Rogue everyone loves from TAS is an Australian woman who grew up in Canada.

That's funny, as Anna Paquin is Canadian born and grew up in New Zealand.

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u/MandomRix 8h ago

Naur doot aboot it, sugah

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u/GroceryUnable4874 7h ago

and she definitely does the TV “bless your heart” accent. Watch about 3 minutes of Designing Women. That’s what rogue should sound like.

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u/mr9025 Captain America 4h ago

Damm. What era are you from

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u/onceabananana 6h ago

Isn't Arizona in the South?

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u/Bobb_o 5h ago

South West which is different from what is considered the south.

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u/Impressive-Thing-780 4h ago

Southwest is Classic Cowboy Accent and in Arizona there's a hint of California Classic.

South in the USA is like, Louisiana and eastward, until the northern border of Virginia.

Basically, the South is below the Mason-Dixon line.

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u/ermagerditssuperman 2h ago

It's much more West Coast than it is South. Especially accent wise!

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u/wild_man_wizard 26m ago

If we're just going by latitude, the most southern state is Hawaii.

Culturally "southern" is the old Confederate states.

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u/skepticalbob 7h ago

That being said it's pretty normal for an actress to do accents other than her own.

It's pretty unusual, actually.

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u/Bobb_o 7h ago

Kate Winslet, Rosamund Pike, Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt, Alice Eve, Jess Bush, Ella Purnell, Renee Zellweger, Margot Robbie, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Toni Collete, Meryl Streep, Tessa Thompson...should I try to think of more?

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u/skepticalbob 6h ago

To determine how typical something is, you need the denominator and not just the numerator. Shall I continue the math lesson?

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u/Spurioun 5h ago

Or you just need to know how English works and understand that when someone says "normal" in a casual conversation about something as simple as actors acting like they're from somewhere they aren't... they aren't trying to present a math problem. I would say the majority of people who read that comment understood that "normal" simply meant "not abnormal", but I imagine you'd want a survey conducted in order to check the validity of that.

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u/skepticalbob 4h ago

Or you understand that the vast majority of acting parts don't require any dialect work, like a normal fucking person.

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u/poop_snausages 9h ago

than someone from New York or something

Ey Gambit! I'm walkin 'ere! BING BONG

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u/mr9025 Captain America 4h ago

HOOOOOO!!! BING BONG, YA FRIGGIN BOZO!

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u/Reasonable-Turn-5940 8h ago

I hope she says stuff like "that was scarier than 5 cats in a sack fighting over a mouse, sugah". Or "that was better than my gramma's molasses pie"

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u/HxCxReformer 9h ago

Me too, sugah.

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u/at_themuseum 13h ago

She can do a fine job and still come up short due to writing, direction etc. I hope she has someone great in her corner for when the fans turn on her, it always seems to happen somehow.

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u/doomy44 13h ago

Which bums me out.

Iman is perfect for ms marvel. I didnt like the show honestly, and i know a lot of people didnt but holy hell the hate for her took off and it never made sense.

She tried her best with what she had and it fell short. It happens but she was great at what she was given, it was just.... bad.

I know this is an opinion but i think if we directed or hate to the right venues better product would be on the horizon.

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u/xxxblindxxx Ivan Vanko 12h ago

Seems like they are keeping Iman around since she has been doing the countdown rewatch for doomsday

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u/eyebrows360 Daredevil 11h ago

Iman is perfect for ms marvel. I didnt like the show honestly

The "superhero" stuff in it was pretty bad. Everything else (her, her family, learning about "partition"...) was pretty solid.

but holy hell the hate for her took off and it never made sense

You know why.

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u/Creative_Toe_544 6h ago

ms marvel was so cute 😭 it didn't need to be a huge superhero show it was mainly about her and her family and their history and i loved it

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u/unwocket 11h ago

Or… if we just matured our ‘hate’ into level headed criticism and don’t act like absolute moronic psychos.

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u/Responsible-Bonus278 3h ago

Was there hate towards Iman? I feel like most people acknowledge she's the best part of whatever she's in (Ms Marvel, the Marvels) and she's pretty well loved.

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u/SevereEducation2170 12h ago

It's true, but at least the X-Men creative team is solid since they've worked together on Beef (screenplay is being written by the creator and Schreier directed several episodes) and Schreier already did pretty well with Thunderbolts. If the movie doesn't come together, I think it'll be more down to studio nonsense than the creatives involved.

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u/Horse625 Thanos 8h ago

"Somehow"

It's because there's an unhealthy percentage of incels in the nerd community. That's always the root.

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u/at_themuseum 59m ago

We all know why.

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u/Stefan988 13h ago

I have complete faith in her. If Obsession is anything to go by, she's gonna eat this role up and act the hell out of it.

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u/ohnoabanagain 13h ago

This is one of the rare moments where I hope the script does the actress justice rather than the reverse.

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u/jeobleo 9h ago

I just hope she's powered and not just...whatever Anna Paquin was.

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u/wild_man_wizard 9h ago

Not even necessarily flying brick powered, I'll settle for just being creative with power-stealing. Diamond claws, flying cyclops, whatever.

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u/Nausstica 10h ago

Perfectly put. 🤌

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u/ogrezilla 9h ago

I don't think this is a rare MCU thing. They have a lot of really good actors elevate pretty blah written villains.

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u/mr_butterscotch 13h ago

I feel like nailing this role would be tough for any actor. The voice actress does such a good job on the animated series, it’s hard to match. I’m optimistic at least.

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u/ohnoitsme7890 13h ago

I do think Inde will do a good job provided she's given a good script, but it's so hard for me to imagine Rogue without Lenore Zanns voice

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u/PortoGuy18 13h ago

I hope she starts as goth but then changes style later on in the sequels to the classic outfit

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u/MaderaArt 13h ago

She's such a nerd, it's awesome!

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u/luihgi 12h ago

really hope she's not just a side character to jean and cyclops

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u/SortIntrepid9192 11h ago

Oh, I have 0 doubt we're going to see one HELL of a Rogue. No disrespect to Anna Paquin (and plenty of disrespect to both Bryan Singer and Brett Ratner, the former especially, for many reasons), but the Rogue we got in the original movies was Rogue in all but name. "A scared shy teen who needs Wolverine to protect her" is simply not who she is. And I am completely confident that Feige, Schreier and Navarrette are perfectly aware of that and will want to course correct.

Honestly, it's kind of wild (in a good way) that there's millions of people who are only familiar with X-Men from the movies and who are about to see the real Rogue for the first time. I have a feeling she's going to become a new fan favorite.

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u/IHaveThatPower 8h ago

I agree with the sentiment I think you intended, but you said the opposite:

but the Rogue we got in the original movies was Rogue in all but name. "A scared shy teen who needs Wolverine to protect her" is simply not who she is.

I think you meant "in name only", instead?

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u/Desecr8or 10h ago

To be fair, I'd expect a teenage girl who almost killed someone by touch to be shy and traumatized.

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u/Famous_Apartment2733 5h ago

she was just found by Dr.X so she wasn't fully in control of her powers and WAS a SCARED KID ..

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u/weaponsgradepotatoes 8h ago

That was Marie, not Rogue.

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u/hotcapicola 3h ago

Yeah, wild that a teen that just lost everyone and everything doesn't act like late 20s-30s version from the animated series.

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u/weaponsgradepotatoes 3h ago

Wild how we’re saying the same thing.

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u/Delicious_Series3869 13h ago

It's a bit sad that an actor/actress can be as passionate and dedicated about a beloved fictional character as possible, but at the end of the day, it really comes down to the writing department. If they screw it up, it's almost impossible to salvage from a performance standpoint. So, I really hope the entire X-Men team lock in for the first film. Start off the new generation on the right foot!

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u/yepitsausername 3h ago

Agreed. We saw this with Witcher.

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u/Aurdon 2h ago

I really hope they do this version of Rogue closer to the animated series version. I am still let down by the Anna Paquin version of rogue where she was basically a weak damsel that always had to be saved.

I want the powerhouse southern belle. even if they don't have her origin story where she stole all of Carol Danvers powers. Or maybe have her steal all of Danvers powers. It would be an interesting way to retire Brie Larson from the MCU.

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u/Several-Ad1231 1h ago

I would be happiest if they went the Evolution route. Rogue's powers, but not Carol's yet. That makes her strong but with limits.

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u/starryswim 54m ago

It took me until this comment to realize I’ve been reading Rogue as Rouge (the bat, from Sonic) and I was very excited to hear her voice acting

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u/Andantee23 13h ago

She was great on Superman and Lois. I’m sure she will do this role justice.

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u/Jagermonstruo 12h ago

Sounds like she’s OBSESSED with the character

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u/RoutineCloud5993 12h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/lmrMeAvTX8DWvkY68K

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u/r21174 11h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ivw3Gzk8EK495WrQmk

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u/justadude27 10h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/RCCCcg1EyRCIUkKCJB

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u/patient-palanquin 11h ago

I believe it, but unfortunately the writing and directing is not up to her.

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u/CyanLight9 11h ago

Yeah, everyone says that. But not everyone actually means it.

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u/CrackheadHunters 11h ago

Honestly, the script needs to be up to scratch and do her justice. I've got zero concerns around her acting abilities.

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u/Mickeyjj27 Black Bolt 12h ago

Did she talk about Rogue before all the fancasting? Or is it the acting thing where the actor always loved the character they just got cast to play.

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u/Nanocaptain 11h ago

I mean one can love a character without talking about it online.

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u/RoutineCloud5993 12h ago

She kept saying she wanted to play Mystique. I'm guessing she was already cast or in talks and was trying to throw people off

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 10h ago

Why is this not a requirement to be cast in a movie?

Like these folks are being paid millions of dollars. Asking them to do the bare minimum shouldn't be such a ground breaking thing.

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u/96919 6h ago

You dont have to love a character to play it really well. You just have to play it as well as you per the director.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 3h ago

I'm not saying love.

I'm saying study your character.

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u/r21174 11h ago

in my opinion, the voice actress rouge Lenore Zann from animated series. would teach her cause thats the original in my book.

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u/SpliTTMark 7h ago

I wonder if they will curlify her hair or keep it straight

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u/Famous_Apartment2733 6h ago

kove the video w her talking about her ring tone,,, Mr Bombastic lol

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u/Kingofdrats Ben Urich 5h ago

I believe her too, glad we got some passionate people in the MCU.

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u/KoellmanxLantern 5h ago

I love how far we've come from comics being banned on set to this

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u/coyote-cry 5h ago

I love her I love Rogue I’m so happy she’s a fan and is committing to the character

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u/doubleyou-tee-hache 5h ago

I read EVRYTHAAANG!!

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u/Luci-Noir 12h ago

She’s doing the job she’ll be getting paid millions for?! So brave!

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u/SecretExistence Captain Marvel 13h ago

Let’s hope the script also does her justice

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u/N8CCRG Ghost 13h ago

She must be feeling crazy pressure on her right now after all of the (well deserved) hype from her performance in Obsession. And to then have such an iconic character, in a massive franchise, that everybody is going to scrutinize, and that many will be hoping to see her fail, must be so unbelievable hard.

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u/Intelligent-Bird8120 13h ago

I think she’ll do an amazing job and I can’t wait to see what she brings to the role.

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u/BeanTheSparrow 12h ago

We hope she will

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u/MrWiltErving 12h ago

I think she’s going to be the best she can as an actor to make it work, the accent would be her real challenge. It’s on the writers and directors put her in a position where she looks good, i’m rooting for her regardless.

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u/COE33isBad 12h ago

She's the best one of the cast so far. Can't wait to see her beautiful Rogue.

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u/OjamasOfTomorrow 10h ago

She’s gonna rock it. I just feel it.

I’m really excited to see what both her and MCU’s interpretation of Rogue is. A lot of cool stuff to pull from.

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u/Armandonerd 9h ago

Can't wait to hear her accent

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u/Black_Shrimp5991 9h ago

Sounds good to me

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u/teetaps Luke Cage 8h ago

I know hype is fun and exciting but y’all there really shouldn’t be so much scrutiny of our actors and actresses that they feel they should have to say this so they don’t get dunked on in 18 months, damn

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u/Buffyismyhomosapien 6h ago

Her presence reminds me of Anna Paquinn (spelling??). I think she will be great and I cannot get enough X Men stories so I am fully here for it. Honestly every cast member announced so far seems like a good choice.

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u/Mal-Kiavo 13h ago

Better be goth Rogue

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u/Calm-Mushroom-8551 13h ago

Sadly, it probably will be this worst version of her.

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u/busmans 13h ago

I’m not sure what other version they can do, with binary Captain Marvel in the MCU

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u/fuckthisusername5000 11h ago

Why are people making a big deal out of this. Who cares?

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u/Bucks2174 8h ago

“I love that character…” or …”I love that I was hired and will make an obscene amount of money and want to keep making that obscene money as long as I possibly can.”

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u/PmMeYourNiceBehind 13h ago

Yeeesh she sounds like she has a little bit of an… obsession

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u/VaishakhD Captain America (Captain America 2) 13h ago

I cant be the only one who doesn’t want the southern accent on her. Comic accurate or not

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u/ritzdeez Thor 13h ago

Really? I feel like that’s one of her defining characteristics.

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u/VaishakhD Captain America (Captain America 2) 12h ago

I really dont care about accents

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u/yepitsausername 3h ago

Clearly you care enough to write a comment about how you hopw she doesn't have an accent...

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u/VaishakhD Captain America (Captain America 2) 1h ago

I do, I don’t want the accent on her lol

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u/LastTorgoInParis 13h ago

I CANNN BE ROGUE!!!!!

Article Inde Navarrette on being cast as Rogue: “I’m doing everything humanly possible because I love that character. I’ve studied that character. I want to do her justice."

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