With the writer’s and actors strike going on, it makes me sad that with Blue beetle coming out this month, Angel Manuel Soto (the director), Xolo Maridueña, and the rest of the entire cast of Blue beetle won’t be able to promote or see the success of the movie if it does well. What I mean by this is because this is the first superhero movie to not only have a predominately Latino and Indigenous cast (minus Susan Sarandon), but the movie also has Angel Manuel Soto who is taking the lead as the director, and also Xolo Maridueña who is going to be the first Latin American actor to be the first Latino actor to be the lead in a live action superhero movie and even be centered on the promotional pictures for once. (Yes, I’m aware that Miles morales was the first Latin American superhero to be the lead in a superhero movie and to be on a poster, but Into the Spiderverse is animation and Blue beetle is live action and in live action superhero movies, Latin American people have been stereotyped which is a conversation for another day).
Anyway, as someone who is a huge advocate for Latin American representation and a comic book fan, I hope that the people in my community show up for blue beetle just like we did for Black panther 2. Support the actors and writers during this strike and let’s hope they all reach a fair deal and the studio CEO’s realize that they should pay their writer’s and actors, and they don’t have to rely on AI anymore. 🙏🏽🇲🇽🤎