‘Black Panther 2’: This is how Marvel prepared Mabel Cadena not to give spoilers about her character

Since Hombre de Hierro (from John Favreau) to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (starring Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly, and which will premiere in 2023), going through Captain America: The Winter Soldier (with Chris Evans) Marvel Studios has made the Marvel Cinematic Universe not only one of the most successful franchises, but also one of the most secretive and secretive in the industry.

What is the company doing to avoid leaking spoilers? Part of the answer is found in recent statements by mabel chainMexican actress who plays Namora in the latest superhero movie, Black Panther: Wakanda Foreverdirected by Ryan Coogler (also responsible for Black Pantherwith Chadwick Boseman, and believestarring Michael B. Jordan).

In an interview for the podcast control lostalso an actress of The fall Y The dance of the 41 describes the strategy that Marvel uses to take care that the actors do not share details of the productions in which they work. It is not about threats or intimidation, but about a series of previous classes in which the company teaches its stars how to respond and approach the press.

In these lessons, the actors, including their colleagues Tenoch Huerta, Letitia Wright and Lupita Nyong’o, receive timely tools to respond in interviews regardless of the fact that journalists’ questions are often intended to obtain some advance or exclusive information. “How they take care of their product is very strong, in my life someone had given me a press class. […] You have a lot of specialists giving you the tools of how to speak.”

Cadena indicates that Marvel’s security is characterized by being so strong that there is no way to leak information without the studios finding out. “Friends would write to me and say, ‘we already found out that you are in Black Panther.’ What does it mean for me to write ‘Yes I’m in Black Panther’?”

Security at Marvel movies has always been tight, but recently it has become more difficult to obtain information. This was mainly due to the protective measures that Anthony Russo Y joe russo they took to guard the many secrets since Avengers: Age of Ultron until Avengers: Endgame.

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One of Marvel’s keys to preserving secrets is the small team they have and the limited amount of information they give other people. For example, in the last two films of the avengers, most of the actors received only their parts from the script. A select few, like Robert Downey Jr., were able to read the entire scripts.

This makes the information so secret even within Marvel Studios. This is not to say that producers don’t give actors everything they need to understand their roles or character arcs.. But many times that information is given at the last minute and in private. Elizabeth Olsen has said that this was how the cast found out about the end of Avengers: Infinity War.