Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Age: 39

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (/ˈjɑːhiə/; born July 15, 1986) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Black Manta in the superhero films Aquaman (2018) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), Bobby Seale in the Netflix historical legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and Morpheus / Agent Smith in The Matrix Resurrections (2021). For his portrayal of Cal Abar / Doctor Manhattan in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He also starred in episodes of The Handmaid's Tale (2018) and Black Mirror (2019). He made his Broadway debut in the Suzan-Lori Parks play Topdog/Underdog, for which he received a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play nomination. He portrays the Marvel Comics character Simon Williams / Wonder Man in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

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for Blue Marvel in My Ideal Marvel Cinematic Universe

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My Ideal Marvel Cinematic Universe

It goes without saying that Marvel (in both the comics and the movies) is undoubtedly a franchise with more than a few interesting characters in its very expansive catalogue. So many that I'd be a fool to pass up on a chance like this to put forward my own ideal casting choices for some of the characters that I find most Interesting. So if I were put in charge of crafting the whole MCU starting all the way back in 2008 with the first classic Iron Man movie, here's who I'd choose to play the characters featured in it

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

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My Ideal Marvel Cinematic Universe

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