STAR WARS Actor Ahmed Best Is Campaigning to Play Blue Marvel in the MCU
Star Wars actor Ahmed Best, who played Jar Jar Binks in the prequel trilogy and Kelleran Beq in The Mandalorian, is now looking to get in on the Marvel movie action! The actor recently shared a post on social media where he is campaigning for the role of Blue Marvel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The actor shared some fan art of himself as Blue Marvel and said: “I think I would make a dope #bluemarvel […] As my mother would say #manifesting LOL.”
Best also tagged several accounts for Marvel, Marvel Studios, and, of course, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. The art of Best as Blue Marvel was created by an artist known as dieselfunk.
Blue Marvel, aka Adam Brashear, is a character who made his debut in Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel #1 in 2008. A brilliant scientist with a PhD in theoretical physics and a decorated Marine veteran, and during a project to use antimatter as an energy source, Adam was caught in an explosion and became a living stable antimatter reactor and gained superhuman abilities. These abilities include vast super strength, flight, nigh-invulnerability, and energy manipulation. His power level was so immense that he was often likened to some of the most potent characters in the Marvel Universe.
During the Civil Rights era of the 1960s, after the public discovered he was an African-American superhero, societal prejudice led the U.S. government, including John F. Kennedy, to ask him to retire from superhero activities, as they feared the implications of such a powerful black superhero during a racially tumultuous period.
Though Blue Marvel had been sidelined for many years, he eventually reemerged to help the Avengers and other heroes confront various threats. He also faced the challenges of both reconciling with a world that had changed in his absence and combating the prejudices and socio-political complexities of his past.
This seems like a good Marvel character for Best to play! I have no idea if it will ever happen, but if it does, I think fans would dig it. What do you think?