The Oscar winner previews the backstory of Victoria Kord, the prime adversary of Xolo Mariduena’s Jaime Reyes.
“I just was so impressed by his passion,” she recalls.
“He has this art background, so he was this nerdy fan of superheroes.”
Susan Sarandon’s Victoria Kord surrounded by Raoul Max Trujillo as Carapax and Bruna Marquezine as Jenny Kord in ‘Blue Beetle’.Hopper Stone/SMPSP
Damian Alcazar (Narcos) plays Jaime’s father; Elpidia Carrillo (Mayans M.C.)
That rang a bell.
All of those themes I thought would really be fun to dabble in."
Victoria Kord (Susan Sarandon) scolds Dr. Sanchez (Harvey Guillén) in ‘Blue Beetle’.Hopper Stone/SMPSP
She maniacally muses in the film, “We are going to change the world” with its power.
Then she builds it back, but with great resentment because she’s been passed over."
“She has no family, she has no friends.
She’s not interested in anything but Kord Industries.
She doesn’t shop, she doesn’t hang out with her girlfriends.
She doesn’t have a lover; if she does, it’s nobody important.
So, everything has gone towards the building of power.”
“It doesn’t look like Donna Karan.
It’s not something out ofVogue.”
Parts of the movie are even performed in Spanish.
“It means a lot to have that representation,” she says.
“We didn’t have anyone who came late or was in it for the money.”
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