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GLOW star Shakira Barrera joins the cast of Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ series, Ironheart, as a series regular, though her role is a mystery.

GLOW star Shakira Barrera has been cast in Marvel Studios’ upcoming Ironheart series for Disney+.

While the specifics surrounding Barrera’s role remain a mystery, it has been reported by Deadline that the actor will appear as a series regular. She will star alongside Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, as well as Anthony Ramos, Manny Montana, Alden Ehrenreich, Regan Aliyah, Shea Couleé and Zoe Terakes. Barrera starred as Yolanda Rivas in the second season of Netflix’s GLOW.

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It was later confirmed in August 2021 that Thorne would make her MCU debut as Riri Williams in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever before starring in her own solo Disney+ series, Ironheart, for which Chinaka Hodge will serve as head writer. The actor announced that she had officially wrapped filming on Wakanda Forever in March. “And that is a picture wrap on Riri Williams,” Thorne wrote on her Instagram story. “God is so good. See y’all in November.”

Ironheart’s Cast Grows

“We’re shooting Black Panther: Wakanda Forever right now, and the character of Riri Williams, you will meet in Black Panther 2 first,” Marvel Studios President/Marvel Chief Creative Officer Kevin Feige confirmed in August 2021. “She started shooting, I think, this week before her Ironheart series.” Before her role was confirmed, fans theorized that Wakanda Forever would introduce the hero to the MCU when it was revealed the sequel to 2018’s Black Panther would film at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where Riri is a student in the comics.


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Created by Brian Michael Bendis, Mike Deodato, Eve Ewing, and Kevin Libranda, Riri Williams made her Marvel Comics debut in 2016’s Invincible Iron Man #7. A 15-year-old genius and MIT student, Riri is able to reverse engineer Tony Stark’s technology to create her own suit of armor and become Ironheart. Ironheart was officially confirmed by Marvel Studios in December 2021. While it does not yet have a release date, the six-episode first season will premiere on Disney+ sometime in the fall of 2023 as part of Phase 5 of the MCU. Wakanda Forever will mark the end of Phase 4.


Ironheart is also rumored to feature the MCU debut of the supervillain known as The Hood, played by Ramos, following the release of set photos featuring the actor. Apart from Thorne’s role as the series protagonist, the roles of her co-stars are being kept under wraps.

Ironheart will premiere on Disney+ in 2023. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever arrives in theaters Nov. 11, 2022.

Source: Deadline

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