By Oscar nominee Colman Domingo spoken about the rumors he was set to replace Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Domingo recently spoke with Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast and indicated that it wasn’t until after all the social media buzz suggested him for the role that he actually met with Marvel Studios:
“There had been conversations of me coming to Marvel in some way. So we [him and his team] did follow up with a sit-down meeting with the heads of Marvel. So I did do that, and we talked openly about the landscape of Marvel or even the Kang rumors.”
Turns out Domingo doesn’t really have an interest in the role, namely because someone else played it beforehand and if he was going to do something with them, he prefer to build a character with them:
“I feel like I want a role to be mine, whatever that role is, whatever I develop. Something didn’t feel right of me, like, ‘Oh, would I replace someone?’ No, I want to build something from the ground up that’s my own. I feel like that was never a conversation from my point of view, if I was discussed [to take over Kang]. I still don’t know if I was discussed. I just know that I would want to build something up from the ground up. So, there’s still talks.”
Domingo is working for Marvel at present, voicing Norman Osborn in the animated “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” series. He says he’s very open to bringing that role into live-action:
“[Your Friendly Neighborhood is] cool, but I do want to get the live-action out, too. Wouldn’t that be kind of cool? I would love to tear that up on the big screen. But I’m having a good time, I love the animation. I love the idea of playing Norman Osborn and you’ll see his evolution as the Green Goblin in the coming seasons.”
The new animated series takes place in an alternate timeline where a young Peter Parker (Hudson Thames) is mentored by Domingo’s Norman Osborn, rather than Tony Stark. Though the story does not take place on Earth-616, it is technically part of the MCU.
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