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‘Blue Beetle’ star is nervously excited about the upcoming DCEU blockbuster

It will be Xolo MaridueƱa's first ever role in a feature film.

Even if you’ve been working in front of a camera for the last decade, it doesn’t necessarily provide immunity from first-film jitters, especially when said film happens to be a big budget superhero blockbuster – the current lifeblood of Hollywood’s highest profit margins.

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Such is the case for Xolo MaridueƱa, the young actor of Cobra Kai fame who’s set to take up the mantle of Blue Beetle in the upcoming DCEU movie of the same name.

When asked by Variety about his emotions regarding the role, MaridueƱa remarked how daunting the prospect was, labeling his primary emotion as “nervous excitement,” given the film’s size in relation to the market.

“Excited is not the first word that comes to my brain. It is nervous excitement, itā€™s antsiness. Itā€™s the anticipation of knowing that youā€™re on the brink of something potentially big, but it still feels really intimate because youā€™re just with the cast and the crew.”

However, he would go on to note the feeling of unbridled excitement he felt with portraying a Latino superhero in a leading role.

“I canā€™t wait for people to see one of the ā€” if not the first ā€” Latino-led superhero movies ever.”

Blue Beetle, intended to be the 14th film in the DCEU following The Flash, stars MaridueƱa as Jaime Reyes, a teenager living in El Paso, Texas who discovers a mysterious alien resembling a beetle. The alien then merges with him, allowing him to create a suit that grants him supernatural abilities, becoming the titular superhero as a result.

Blue Beetle will release to theaters on August 18, 2023.


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Charlotte is a freelance writer for We Got This Covered, a graduate of St. Thomas University's English program, a fountain of film opinions, and probably the single biggest fan of Peter Jackson's 'King Kong.' She has written professionally since 2018, and will tackle an idiosyncratic TikTok story with just as much gumption as she does a film review.