Films That Rock, Jul 24, 2022 "Black Panda [sic]: Wakanda Forever" Panel from San Diego Comic Con 2022.
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This pancocojams post showcases a YouTube reaction vlog of a panel discussion and trailer for the November 2022 movie Black Panther- Wakanda Forever. This post also showcases the first official teaser for that movie.
This article excerpt and all of these comments were written in July 2022 before the Black Panther- Wakanda Forever movie was released.
The content of this post is presented for socio-cultural purposes.
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Thanks to all those who are associated with the Black Panther movies, and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to the publishers of these videos on YouTube. RIP Chadwick Boseman.
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Official Teaser
Marvel Entertainment, July 23, 2022
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total # of views as of July 26, 2022 at 2:27 PM ET= 23,147,783
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ARTICLE EXCERPT
by Pablo Valdiva, July 25, 2022
"Tenoch Huerta being cast as Namor is big for all brown and Indigenous Mexicans."
And while the trailer introduced us to a few new characters,
Namor and Namora are continuing to make waves online...literally and
figuratively. The two are played by Mexican actors Tenoch Huerta and Mabel
Cadena, and seeing them in the mix of an already incredible cast has been a joy
to watch.
They — along with the rest of the cast — appeared at San
Diego Comic-Con over the weekend, and both shared their gratitude for being in
the film as well as their love for their Latino fans.
BuzzFeed was in Hall H during the Marvel Studios panel in
which Tenoch said, "I'm excited and I'm so happy to be here, it's an
honor. And I want to say something really fast about inclusion. I come from the
hood, seriously. And thanks to inclusion, I'm here. I wouldn't be here without
inclusion. A lot of kids out there in their hoods are looking at us, dreaming
to be here, and they're gonna make it! They're gonna make it."
He then addressed his Latino fans in Spanish, "And the
second thing. Sorry, I need to switch to Spanish. Thank you to everybody, all
my country folk, all the Latin Americans. You crossed the river and you left
everything you loved behind. Thanks to that, I am here. Thank you. By the way,
Namor is amazing."
[…]
Latino fans, especially Indigenous Latinos, are expressing
nothing but joy over seeing Tenoch be a complete badass in the film.
Alejandro Ruiz
@AlejandroRuizVO
As a Mexican-American actor with darker skin and a child of
indigenous parents, I’ve felt firsthand the colorism inflicted on
Latin-Americans in entertainment. As such, I can’t describe the joy of
recognizing the gorgeous, talented
@TenochHuerta
in the
#WakandaForever trailer. 👑
12:32 AM · Jul 24, 2022·Twitter for
iPhone
⤷ his (✿◠‿◠)
@redirewolf
tenoch huerta being cast as namor is big
for all brown and indigenous mexicans. an actor who barely got any roles in his
home country for those two reasons finally has this huge opportunity in one of
the largest media franchises in the world. this opens the door
12:42 AM · Jul 24, 2022·Twitter for
Android
[…]
Armani
@historyoarmani2
Atlantis being inspired by Aztec culture
and Namor being played by Mexican actor Tenoch Huerta in Black Panther Wakanda
Forever is about to be the hardest sh-t* the marvel has ever done
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*This word is fully spelled out in this tweet."...
SELECTED COMMENTS
All of these comments were published July 24, 2022 - July 26, 2022 at 11:30 AM ET.
Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66_91wBXlfA BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER | Marvel Comic Con 2022 Panel (Letitia Wright, Danai Gurira)
Films That Rock, Jul 24,
2022 "Black Panda [sic]: Wakanda
Forever" Panel from San Diego Comic Con 2022.
1. U__V_RAYS_ _____ 963
"This movie looks incredible🔥🔥🔥 I
just know it will be amazing and so meaningful. We will always love and
remember Chadwick Boseman❤️❤️❤️ The Black Panther lives on
forever in our hearts❤️ May he Rest In Peace🙏"
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2. Jenny Akhara
"I was in tears from Ryan mentioned Chadwick but when Danai
mentioned about the merging of our cultures and we as people celebrating each
other, it broke me even more. I am Cuban, Jamaican and a proud product of black
and white and I am moved and inspired by the evolution on my cultures. I am
proud to be present in this era where we embrace each other, as people, as
humans, as mankind and not by the colour of our skin or difference in our
cultures. United we stand, divided we fall. We still have a far way to go and I
look forward to us continuing to evolve as people and I pray for the day that
we are free from all sorts of racism and prejudice and fully ACCEPT each other
Bob Marley "Out of many one people"
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3. G E R A R
"As a latina i would’ve never thought i see people that look
like me in a Marvel movie.This is truly special!"
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4. GgAboveAverageGamer
"America Chavez: 👁👄👁"
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5. G E R A R
"@GgAboveAverageGamer im including her too btw 😂"
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6. ChemyNoSurfea
"@GgAboveAverageGamer to be fair Xochitl (America Chavez) is born
and raised in the USA. Tenoch is full on Mexican, that's what he means by
"the hood" (weird way of putting it lmao). I'm so happy seeing him there!"
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7. Cristina Rodríguez
"@ChemyNoSurfea He wasn’t referring to Mexico as “the hood”.
He was talking about Ecatepec (the literal place he grew up in). Ecatepec is
one of the most dangerous delegations in Mexico"
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8. ChemyNoSurfea
"@Cristina
Rodríguez yeah I just wasn't specific
enough, but that's kinda what I meant. He knows the Mexican struggle"
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9. Sam West
"I’m already a fan Tenoch! Go’head and represent
for the Latin community. Black & Brown unite"
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Malibu’s Most Wanted
10. "Love this Black and
Brown Unity ❤️"
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Jafet Ortega
11. "Tenoch is my guy! Representing us prietos haha"
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"Prieto" in Spanish slang means "[a person who is] "blackish" or "dark" https://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish-to-english/linguistics/612777-prieto.html
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12. P. WILD TV
"Even in the movies they want blacks vs Mexicans. We need
unity lol. I’m joking y’all"
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13. David-Arthur Muland
"Dude it’s a celebration of africa and it’s culture and dude
came and made it about Spanish ahah"
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14. Mystic Flame
"Not Spainish, Mexican"
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15. Luis A. Gonzalez
"Including the LATINO community. This feels good. 🔥"
16. "Black people are very welcoming of other cultures but not
vice versa. They should kept it all black"
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17. Jose Fonseca
"Now if we can get the Latino equivalent to wakanda not to be
blue that would’ve been a bigger deal"
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18. Juan Duran
"African and Mesoamerican
representation!!! Love to see it baby!!! 🖤🤎"
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19. ElBigShegun
"Man the way Tenoch talked in Spanish for
his people to understand is sick! He better be in secret wars"
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20. Vincent Alvarado
"I'm guessing he will
be one of the most important characters going forward considering his status
generally in the comics."
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21. 1904 daygobaby
"@Vincent
Alvarado for non comic book readers can
you elaborate further ?"
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22. Marcel B
"@1904 daygobaby he's played huge parts in diff popular comic
book arcs, he was actually apart of the original illuminati unlike the one from
multiverse of madness, and whenever he isn't acting like a dick, he joined the
avengers, xmen, and fantastic 4 fighting so pretty strong villains like thanos
and his army, hulk and red hulk, etc"
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23. Lainie Medina
"I love that Black Panther is gonna have a go a representing
not one but two very ancestral cultures at the same time! Love love it! As an
afrolatina this hits right on my best parts!"
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24. Hey
"@Lainie
Medina two culture that shared a lot in
common both in the past as the present"
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25. Noel Srx
"Dude he's playing NAMOR. he will obviously be in secret
wars."
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26. Chrisencius MSF
"He better be in everything! I'm Southeast Asian brown &
for some reason i feel represented."
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27. barbara&_
"18:28
"Thank you all...all the "paisanos", all the
latin americans. You crossed the river and left behind everything you loved,
thanks to that... I'm here" "
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The slang word "paisanos" came from the Italian word for "peasants." Its contemporary Italian and Spanish meaning is "countrymen" and its slang meaning is the same as the African American vernacular English word "homies."
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28. SonNitsuga TheSavage
"Bro. Tenoch made me tear up. As a Mexican making it in
America; I am proud.
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29. Frado’s channel
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30. azuredivina
"viva la raza!!"
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31. Russell Turcotte
"Wanted Namor to be Native American but it’s cool guess we
got Echo 😕"
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32. Jah Ali
"@Russell
Turcotte he is Native American"
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33. Frado’s channel
"@Russell
Turcotte I’m sorry that he’s not from a
group that originated specifically in the US but he is indigenous since the
Mayan and Aztecs are indigenous but from Mexico. But Mexico is part of North
America (not Central America) so it’s still technically a North American
indigenous group"
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34. Frado’s channel
"@Russell
Turcotte I am very proud that he’s
Mexican. It made me cry to hear him say those words in Spanish and I know it
will make me cry to see him in the movie knowing that he’s Mexican in a lead
role in a marvel movie and I can’t stop thinking of how amazing it will be for
people to learn a little more about Mexican indigenous groups. Estoy muy
orgulloso de verlo a él ahí. Soy mestizo y Oaxaqueño y mis padres me trajeron
aquí cuando tenía dos anós para darme la mejor oportunidad que podría tener en
mi futuro. Espero que todos amén nuestra hermosa cultura"
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Google translate from Spanish to English:
"I am very proud to see him there. I am mestizo and Oaxacan and my parents brought me here when I was two years old to give me the best opportunity I could have in my future. I hope you all love our beautiful culture."
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35. Russell Turcotte
"@Frado’s channel why do you think I wanted him Native
American? The same reason Namor is a huge character and he’d be big for Native
American culture it would be like black panther the affect it had on the world.
There’s tons of other Mexican characters they could also make a character like
doctor doom or ghost rider Mexican to make up for Namor being Native American.
Marvel has 2 Native American characters Echo which the show is gonna flop just
because she’s a female and has no real big ties to anything besides kingpin and
daredevil who we’ve already seen. And the other character is wolverines gf who
doesn’t have a big role in the comics"
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36. Russell Turcotte
"@Cizzurp 215 indigenous and Native American are 2
different things Mexicans and Native Americans are not the same and marvel has
tons of Mexican characters it just would’ve been cool to see a Native American
character as big as Namor in the MCU it would have a black panther cultural
affect."
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37. Cindy Ramirez
"@Russell
Turcotte wtf. You’re erasing hundreds of
Pueblos Indígenas that STILL EXIST TODAY in so called “Mexico” and other “Latin
American” countries. It’s true that many Mexicans are whyte European
descendants and others are “Mestizos” who are severely disconnected from their
indigenous ancestry and culture…. BUT still, there ARE literally thousands of
Indigenous Peoples in “Mexico” today.
Especially in regions like Oaxaca and Yucatán, Indigenous communities have been able to resist colonization. They’ve been able to continue practicing their indigenous cultures— whether it be Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya, etc.
So how are natives/indigenous peoples from “Mexico” not “real natives”?
Our ancestral lands (‘Mexico’) is home to about 68 indigenous languages! Nawatl (or Nahuatl) is the most widely spoken indigenous language in ‘North America’. In fact, the number of Nawatl speakers is a lot greater than that of Navajo, spoken by Diné people in the so called “USA”.
Next time, instead of deliberately erasing Pueblos Indígenas south of the “U.S.” border, reconsider how harmful your thinking is.
(By the way, many of the people migrating to the “U.S.” are indigenous peoples from “Central America” who only speak an indigenous language. They struggle to communicate with officials, attorneys, volunteers that only speak Spanish. Ideas like yours harm these migrants. It exacerbates the idea that these migrants only need resources in Spanish—which in many cases, can be detrimental to their asylum claims and to their safety/well-being.)"...
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"I want to thank Ryan Coogler for giving Latinos a in to the
MCU. He made Atlantis a meso American
myth. And WE know what colonizers will do to an indigenous culture."
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39. Jay 88
"Its not a Mexican movie, its a BLACK MOVIE you and your
people are welcome though"
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The bold font is the way those two words were written in that comment.
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40. Cizzurp 215
"@Russell
Turcotte Native American is an outdated
term for what we used to call Indian. The correct term for them is Indigenous
no matter what tribe or from where in the Americas but okay 😂.
Seminole, Lenape, Kiowa, Inca, Aztec, etc all Indigenous people. If you wanted
a group specific to the US and the history of the trial of tears and such like
Reservoir Dogs, just say that."
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41. byronicman
"Mohawk Indian and 40 plus year Marvel true believer here..
and when I learned that Namor was to be an indigenous American I was blown away
and a little emotional. Such an awesome idea.. I'm super excited to see Namor
on the big screen finally. And Chadwick,
we miss you terribly. Thank you for
bringing to life one of my childhood heroes so beautifully. We were the same age and you're gone wayyy
too soon. WAKANDA FOREVER!!!!!!!"
"I am so stoked for this cast!
He openly speaks about the colorism and the systemic racism
in Mexican media and lack of opportunity for non-fair Mexicans to play roles
out of stereotypical roles. So this role in the MCU is breaking glass ceilings
and he deserves this and more. He is such talent!!!!! Felicidades ❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉"
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43. Imperious Rex
"I know they should just create original Mexican characters
or used the ones that they have. Also, I don't mind them using the actor but
they could have used makeup and CGI to make him look like Namor. If they can
make Mr spock they can make Namor. Also he does not have enough muscle
definition. Namor is ripped. This is a huge mistake. But look whose directing
the movie. A kid who probably never read a comic until he had to read Black
Panther."
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44. Ricardo Rojas Toledo
"@Imperious Rex and what does it matter?"
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45. Imperious Rex
"@Ricardo Rojas
Toledo umm, I just told you in my
previous post. This is a lazy attempt to recreate The first Marvel character."
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46. Chris Connors
"@Imperious Rex
Well when you find a white skinned Atlantean that is a good
muscular actor with pointy ears & winged feet let Marvel know."
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47. Imperious Rex
"@Chris Connors I don't need to find anything. People are proud about representation of a character that was never Mexican. I'm all for diversity but make an original diverse character. You could just make an original mexican character for the movie then introduce them to the comic. Harley Quinn was done this way. Not hard. But making an original character a person of color with false influences to create diversity is just fake pandering. The man can play Namor but just make him Namor. I didn't have a problem with the Himdall race swap. The reason, no virtue signaling done. Let me mention that I'm black because your perception is that only white people have a problem with this. That in itself is a crime."
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48. JAK Of all and that is all
"@Imperious Rex You’ve been brainwash, to feel that way. I
think it’s cool they made the Atlanteans brown skin.
These comic book stories are fictional characters can change
at any time. Stop caring so much about whitewashed comics. How the weather
lanterns probably was Brown skin looking.
But we were taught to believe like everything else. That
they were white. Get out of your white wash mine and expanded a little bit. Who
knows you might just enjoy the movie. FYI I’m black too, and it’s a crime for a
black man to be hating on another minority forgetting their spotlight!"
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49. WolveWick
"too bad namor isnt latino. another woke washing character"
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50. flm5
"@WolveWick he is aztec"
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51. WolveWick
"@flm5 he isnt in comics."
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52. ChemyNoSurfea
"@WolveWick keyphrase "in the comics" "
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53. Juan Duran
"@WolveWick he should be now! Mexican Namor is going to
blow comic Namor out the water 😎 MCU synergy baby!"
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54. WolveWick
" @ChemyNoSurfea keyphrase. another woke washing character to
fit check marks in movie."
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55. Sebastian Mohiam Darkholme Stormborn Harkness
"@WolveWick tell me, who should play Namor?"
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56. WolveWick
"@Sebastian Mohiam
Darkholme Stormborn Harkness
IDC bro just tired of see people that need acception in
world applauding this emptyless mcu with bad villains that they, mArVeL DiSnEy,
cant even give them the looks of comics. and they cant even give stories as
good as comics. they cant even give some heros the personality of comics, like
thor.
mcu is just a list check to fill the emptyness of people in
real life.
congratz for you people that get so hyped over shallow stuff
like mcu."
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57.
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58. Fernando Flova
"@WolveWick and???"
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59. Sebastian Mohiam Darkholme Stormborn Harkness
"WolveWick you say you dont care but you obviously
object to namor being played by some specific ethnicity. so, who should play
namor, because atlantean is not an option."
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60. Preston Nightwing
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61. weebnibba15
"I'm half Black Belizean & half
Mexican mayan and I'm excited! 😭"
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62. Imperious Rex
"@Hellkite1985
I wonder how the Mayan and Aztec culture make it all the way over to the
North Cost of Africa.
Location
ATLANTIS was a legendary island realm of
the far west which was sunk beneath the ocean by the gods to punish its people
for their immorality. The term "Atlanteans" was also applied by the
Greeks to the Phoenician colonies along the Barbary Coast of North Africa--i.e.
those living near the Atlas Mountains."
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63. Anirudh Bharadwaj
"It’s so interesting to see “inclusion” turn into segregation
so quickly. The Latino actors were hugging themselves and the black actors were
hugging themselves, they didn’t all embrace each other as if they were a family
like they said. Oh the irony."
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64. DE BERGEVIN Hugues
"Getting to see a hero/ villain of Mayan or Aztec descent is
super cool and refreshing and important as growing up on the west coast seeing
the changing feud between black and brown is well represented"
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65. Jay 88
"Why was there even a fued in the first place"
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66. DE BERGEVIN Hugues
"@Jay 88 because of street beef with gangs and drugs:
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67. Estela Astrid Aguilera Acosta
"Sólo por el discurso de Tenoch Huerta ( que me dejó con la boca abierta, de lo buen actor que es en "Días de Gracia") y la presencia de Mabel Cadena (chingona en "el Baile de los 41") , regresaré a ver una peli de Marvel. Aquí no es Wakanda Forever, sino Poder Prieto Forever.😍🤩🤩"
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Google translate from Spanish to English:
"Only because of Tenoch Huerta's speech (which left me open-mouthed, what a good actor he is in "Días de Gracia") and the presence of Mabel Cadena (a badass in "El Baile de los 41"), I will return to see a Marvel movie. Here it is not Wakanda Forever, but Poder Prieto Forever.😍🤩🤩"
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Google translate didn't translate "Poder Prieto Forever". I believe its English translation is "Power to Dark skinned people forever"
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68. Chris Connors
"Yes I have a feeling his performance will take him as a
actor to a whole new level, and open the doors for other Hispanics."
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