Tenoch Huerta, Marvel’s New Namor, couldn’t swim before Black Panther Wakanda forever

Madrid, September 3 (culture and entertainment) –

There are only a few months left until the movie premiere Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which hits theaters November 11 and will end phase 4 of the MCU. After being criticized for his physique by a Marvel Comics cartoonist, now Tenoc Huerta who plays Namor in the movie, The legendary underwater hero who will make his big screen debut in the movie, admit it She didn’t know how to swim before filming started… and that he initially hid it from the producers.

“They asked me if I knew how to swim. I told him I never drowned I promised with my representatives‘, the actor confirmed in statements to Life and Style magazine. Of course I didn’t say anything at that time [de que no sabía nadar]Because they won’t give me the role. We had to explain to them through my US attorney that this is how we Mexicans are. We never say no and then we’ll see what happens‘,” explained Huerta, laughing, who would become the first Mexican to play a Marvel character on the big screen.

As the post notes, this happened two years ago. Shortly thereafter, the actor began training and preparing for the role. Before filming begins Black Panther 2 in AtlantaAnd the which lasted eight and a half months.

As the latest trailer for the movie showed, Huerta will play the less powerful Namor of his pinball version in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever It will be strongly associated with the Aztec culture. In fact, His kingdom will be the kingdom of Talukan, not the kingdom of Atlantis, Thus modifying the origin of the character who first appeared in 1939 in the first issue of Marvel Comics.

Together with Huerta as Namor, they completed the cast Black Panther sequel Letitia Wright (Syrian), Lupita Nyong’o (Nakia), Danny Gurira (Okoye), Dominic Thorne (Rari Williams/Iron Hart), Winston Duke (Mpaco), Martin Freeman (Everett Cross), Angela Bassett (Queen) Ramunda) and Michaela Cowell (Anika).