It had been Marvel’s best-kept secret: Who would Sadie Sink play in the new Spider-Man movie? The actress herself has had to dance around the question in interviews, Tom Holland hasn’t said a peep, she wasn’t even introduced at the last Comic-Con. Everything was ready for tomorrow’s European premiere, and at last they’d done it: keep a secret to the very end. And then…
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On the red carpet at the premiere, Steve Lacy, a composer and singer who has a song on the official soundtrack, Oh Yeah?, answered a question that seemed simple enough at first: “Who’s your favorite character?”. Little did anyone expect that she was going to spill absolutely everything just like that, out of nowhere. A year and a bit of mystery, down the drain.
“Jean. I like Jean. She’s the villain, but there’s a reason for her madness. I like her, I like her character”. Of course, everyone fell silent: this woman had not only revealed who Sink was playing, but her secret role in this fourth installment. If I were her, I’d be getting ready to say goodbye to having any more songs in a Marvel movie. Who does that.
It’s worth remembering that at Comic-Con Kevin Feige resisted the urge to introduce his own X-Men team, although the rumors say we’ll have to circle the dates for D23 in red, from August 14 to 16, when the real surprises are expected… and now he might as well introduce Sink as the new Jean Grey. These things happen, Kevin.
