Thursday, September 13, 2018

Being Green...Maybe?

So, while researching yesterday's post, I glanced at the cast list for Spider-Man: Far From Home (Robert Downey, Jr.'s absence is part of the evidence that he is, indeed, leaving the MCU).

But I also found this:


This relatively young (he's 30, but looks younger in many shots) man is Remy Hii, whom some of you probably saw in Crazy Rich Asians (my rom-com hating self stayed away even while I cheered the movie on).

He's listed on the cast of Far From Home - but without a character name.

Which could mean he's just somebody Spidey bumps into in Asia. The villain appears to be Michael Keaton as the Vulture. Hii's fairly high on the listing, though, and is a talented up-and-coming actor that it seems somewhat unlikely Marvel would use in only one movie. He has a soap opera background (he was on the Australian soap Neighbours for two seasons), which is very solid training for an actor.

Going to stick my neck out here. A talented Asian actor being cast, with them hiding the character name, at this point in the MCU...when it's clear they're moving from established heroes to younger ones?

I'm going to make a guess, educated but perhaps out there, and say that this may be the MCU's face of Amadeus Cho. Ruffalo's contract is also coming up and if he decides to leave, then bringing in the younger Hulk makes sense. Cho is also a very popular character amongst younger fans, and would go a large step towards solving Marvel's Asian problem. The character showed up in one of the Hulk movies...horribly whitewashed...but most people have already forgotten that, and as the movie starred Norton, not Ruffalo, it's probably not in continuity anyway.

And, at one point in Cho's background, he was actually Spider-Man...so where else would he show up...

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