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The Ryan Coogler–produced show stars Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, a character we first met onscreen as the MIT genius turned Talokan hostage in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. If that wasn’t clear enough, he added, “Long story short, Iron Man loves Ironheart.” Downey also offered encouragement after the show wrapped, Thorne said in an Empire interview. “It’s so crazy to be putting [ Ironheart] out now, at the time where AI is on the front of everybody’s mind, technological ethics are on the front of everybody’s mind,” Coogler told Deadline at the Los Angeles premiere of the show, “but also when the MCU is gearing up — we didn’t know it was going to be Doctor Doom and the Avengers when we first started, but he’s a guy in publishing who’s most famous for fusing technology and magic, so it’s a great sample of things that are to come in probably what’s gonna be the biggest movie in Marvel history.”
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