Black Widow star O-T Fagbenle has revealed that he initially auditioned for one more, very completely different position within the Marvel film: Taskmaster.
“Mainly, I first auditioned for Taskmaster, and it was a extremely unimaginable speech, truly. It was an audition I used to be very pleased with,” Fagbenle advised The Direct. “I’ve nonetheless acquired it within the again someplace. I made him with an African accent, and he was this sort of maniacal-like character.”
As a substitute, he ended up taking part in Rick Mason within the 2021 prequel, a determine from Natasha’s previous with ties to S.H.I.E.L.D. Taskmaster ended up being the alter ego of Antonia Dreykov, performed by Olga Kurylenko, a Pink Room murderer with photographic reflexes who’s manipulated by her father.
“Within the varied iterations of the film, that model of Taskmaster went away, after which they simply got here to me and had been like, ‘Hey, there’s this character known as Mason, do you wish to play Mason?'” Fagbenle continued. “So I used to be like, ‘Hell yeah, I might like to play Mason!’ And so, the Taskmaster that I used to be going to be did not exist in that iteration of Black Widow.”
Mason, nevertheless, made a quick look within the Disney Plus sequence Secret Invasion in 2023, however Fagbenle hopes that is not the final we have seen of him within the MCU. “Pay attention, this what I mentioned to Eric [Pearson, screenwriter], I mentioned, ‘Why are you leaving me out of Thunderbolts*, man? I did come again. I did some Secret Invasion, Mason appeared there. And so, yeah, I imply, like a real superhero, once they give me the decision [I’m ready to go].”
Kurylenko’s Taskmaster returned to the massive display in new Marvel film Thunderbolts*, alongside her Black Widow co-stars Florence Pugh and David Harbour. Nevertheless, things don’t go so well for her…
Thunderbolts* is out now in theaters. For extra on the film, take a look at our Thunderbolts* review and our information to the Thunderbolts* post-credits scenes.
