On his first day at work on "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," Tenoch Huerta gave an impromptu speech.
Hanging above his colleagues on wires in his Namor regalia — pointy ears, piercings, the shortest of short green shorts — the Mexican actor addressed everyone present to express his thanks and to convey his excitement about what the role and opportunity meant to him.
"This is the first superhero with an Indigenous background, a Mesoamerican background," says Huerta, who will be making his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Namor, the king of Talokan, in the "Black Panther" sequel, in theaters Friday. "It's a brown-skinned guy. This ancient culture is in his roots. And he speaks like me. We are making history. I told them, 'Let's do something to be proud of.' "
