Tenoch Huerta hopes Wakanda Forever helps Latin Americans embrace their roots

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A tight profile shot of a man with pointed ears who is wearing many necklaces featuring intricate beadwork that form a wide collar down his chest. In the foreground is an ornate spear that the man is holding.
Tenoch Huerta as Namor in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. | Image: Marvel Studios

The way Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s Talocan bears little resemblance to the Atlantis of Marvel’s comic books is one of the most intriguing things about the movie and its central villain: the sea-dwelling antiheroic King Namor, played by Tenoch Huerta. Namor’s short shorts, winged feet, and intense hatred of the surface world are all still important parts of his character that Wakanda Forever spotlights with a tale about how he’s moved to lead Talocan to war.

But what Huerta was most moved by as he stepped up to the challenge of bringing Namor to the MCU is how Wakanda Forever’s story and its conceptualization of Talocan are celebrations of Latin American identity with a distinct focus on its shared Indigenous and African roots.

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source https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/31/23433010/tenoch-huerta-namor-black-panther-wakanda-forever-talocan

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