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Xolo Maridueña
Newsweek US
|September 01, 2023
COBRA KAI'S XOLO MARIDUEÑA IS GOING FROM KICKING BUTT ON EARTH to doing so in the multiverse in the latest DC Comics film Blue Beetle (August 18).
"I'm so excited about people meeting this character for the first time." The film is not only the young actor's big-screen debut, but also the first DC Comics movie to focus solely on a Latin superhero."I really feel like it's taken all 22 years of my life so far to be ready for this moment." Despite the movie's groundbreaking progress and diversity, Maridueña wants people to see it for more than just that. "I hope people, with this movie, can start to marinate on the fact that this is a movie, that Latino is not the genre, that superhero was the genre, and the characters happened to be Latino." He also wants Blue Beetle to open doors for other superhero stories we've yet to see. "I hope tha
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