It was life imitating art — and the other way around — during the Heat Vision Live special screening of Wonder Man. Stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Sir Ben Kingsley went into full thespian mode, much like the characters they play in Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series about two actors trying to catch a big break and get cast in a superhero movie.
As creators Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest looked on, and to the delight of the audience assembled at the Directors Guild of America for the Jan. 23 screening, Kingsley and Abdul-Mateen talked about the show as if they were dissecting a script.
“It’s written as a duet,” Kingsley said of the show, “but the duet is in the base notes, not in the obvious high notes.”
Kingsley, an acting legend thanks to his Oscar-winning performance in Gandhi, later dived so deep into a scene from episode three that the crowd,…
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