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‘Ironheart’ Star Dominique Thorne on Reintroducing Riri Williams With a New ‘Ingenious’ Iron Suit and the MCU Show’s ‘Heavier Emotions’
'Ironheart' star Dominique Thorne on reprising her role as teen tech genius Riri Williams for the Disney+ series and making changes to the supersuits.
Those are the type of questions the series — executive produced by “Black Panther” filmmaker Ryan Coogler, with “Snowpiercer’s” Chinaka Hodge as creator — spends most of its six-episode run exploring. At its core, “Ironheart” is a story about a young woman figuring out how to move forward after suffering a tremendous personal loss — the deaths of her stepfather and her best friend — so the armor she’s building to protect herself and those she loves is both literal and metaphorical. Remember how much fun we used to have?” Like, this is not a wholly negative and terrible thing; the grief may come in heavily, but a big part of that weight also comes from the fact that the love and the joy and the friendship was so pure and so real and so grounded.
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