{"id":53861,"date":"2020-06-18T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T18:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=53861"},"modified":"2020-06-18T21:19:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T04:19:27","slug":"american-gods-yetide-badaki-continues-push-to-play-storm-in-the-mcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=53861","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN GODS&#8217; Yetide Badaki continues push to play Storm in the MCU."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AMERICAN GODS actress <strong>Yetide Badaki<\/strong> has been campaigning to portray weather Goddess mutant <strong>Storm<\/strong> since last year, being vocal on social media about her desire to Marvel Studios&#8217; head Kevin Feige. Recently, Badaki reconfirmed her desire, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YetideBadaki\/status\/1271489098859999234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeting<\/a> &#8220;Yes, this is still True.&#8221; in reference to a post from last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes, this is still True \ud83d\udda4\u26a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/STORM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#STORM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g1gpFzujjG\">https:\/\/t.co\/g1gpFzujjG<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Yetide Badaki (@YetideBadaki) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YetideBadaki\/status\/1271489098859999234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A component of Storm in modern X-Men comics involved Ororo forming a relationship and, at one time, marrying the Black Panther. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, T&#8217;Challa is portrayed by actor <strong>Chadwick Boseman<\/strong>, who is 42 years old; Badaki is 38, which would fit. That&#8217;s not to say this aspect will even be explored on film; that&#8217;s a big question mark. For further reference, <strong>Halle Berry<\/strong> was 34 years when <em>X-Men<\/em> released in 2000 and <strong>Alexandra Shipp<\/strong> was 25 when <em>X-Men: Apocalypse<\/em> came out in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess when mutants make their first appearances in the MCU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMERICAN GODS actress Yetide Badaki has been campaigning to portray weather Goddess mutant Storm since&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"AMERICAN GODS' Yetide Badaki continues push to play Storm in the MCU #XMen.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[60,15,97,66,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casting","category-crew-talk","category-disney","category-storm","category-x-men"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/yet.jpg?fit=1018%2C640&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}