Benedict Wong has turn out to be one in every of the most-featured actors in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, together with his character Wong showing in so many MCU tasks that even Kevin Feige has joked about it.
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Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Wong mentioned the “Wong Cinematic Universe,” a joke that Kevin Feige made to him in an electronic mail in reference to what number of Phase 4 MCU movies and tv collection Wong has appeared in.
“I’ve got the email, I’m seriously considering getting it as a wallpaper,” Wong joked. “No, I told the internet, and now it’s everywhere. But that’s really kind of him to say. For me, I’m just like an overexcited puppy when I get the call from him, you know? Like, “Hey, would you like to be in X?” And that comes from me, simply personally, being such a Marvel fan. Growing up as a child, studying Spider-Man comics, after which simply discovering myself on this world and discovering a personality known as Wong. I’m simply having fun with enjoying this function and the place it takes me. In each single sort of undertaking that they invite me to be concerned in, it simply pulls away one other layer of the onion, you realize? You get to search out a bit of bit extra about the eccentricities of the Sorcerer Supreme.”
Wong was then requested what he considered the response to his character’s appearances have meant for him throughout social media. To him, it’s laborious not to concentrate to it, and he’s “heartened” by it and that he loves enjoying round in the overarching MCU.
(*4*) stated Wong. “I’m really heartened by it, you know? The Marvel fans have kind of warmed to me, and I’m grateful of that. I take my work very seriously in terms of acting, but I also really enjoy having a ball in this universe. I was watching episode four [of She-Hulk] today and just marveling at the work of the VFX team. Just a simple hand gesture of the movement there that I can play, and then what they can fill in. Or just a fling of an arm, and all of a sudden, something else appears. And that, to me, is just the realm of being the big kid that I’ve always been. I’ve just got the most incredible team around me to realize it all. It looks visually stunning, especially with all the goblins [in episode four].”
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As for Wong’s character — additionally named Wong — he can at present be seen in the ongoing Disney+ collection She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, however may even probably seem in future Marvel Cinematic Universe tasks, the subsequent of which is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on November 11, 2022.
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