The Classic New Mutants Sunspot

By kristen tauer on august 27 2020.

The classic new mutants sunspot. In the new mutants henry zaga plays the hot headed sunspot and in our exclusive interview with the actor he talked about his extensive process in finding the character and giving him some new. Sunspot born roberto da costa is a mutant with the ability to absorb and channel solar energy. Roberto s parents were always busy with their work so they didn t have much family time. There is no excuse for the whitewashing of sunspot in new mutants by princess weekes aug 27th 2020 12 10 pm among the controversies surrounding the upcoming ish film new mutants has been the.

But many fans have objected to zaga s casting. Roberto had joined the surviving x men along with bishop warpath blink. The new mutants director addresses sunspot casting controversy jake abbate wednesday august 26 2020 henry zaga isn t the first actor to play roberto da costa sunspot on the big screen. While they were hiding in an underground bunker in moscow roberto and the other x men were warned of a sentinel.

Introduced in 1982 as the younger teen students to the now grown x men the new mutants have always been the grittier left of center b team that turned the teen angst up to 11. Henry zaga emerges in the new mutants the brazilian actor stars as teenaged superhero sunspot in the marvel film. By 2023 the sentinels had taken over the world in their mission to eliminate mutants and x gene carriers. In new mutants brazilian actor henry zaga plays roberto da costa a mutant also known as sunspot who gets super strength by absorbing solar energy.

Roberto is a member of the new mutants. The first team of new mutants characters was created by chris claremont and artist bob mcleod. The new mutants is a group of fictional teenaged mutant superheroes in training appearing in american comic books published by marvel comics they have been the main characters of three successive comic book series which were spin offs of the x men franchise. The heavily delayed x men film has stirred up a lot of interest because of its difficult road to the big screen but fans are just as intrigued by the story at its center the new mutants.