As many fans of "X-Men", X-Men: First Class "is one of my favorite movies Throughout the franchise; It is a step above "Logan" for me and a small step below "X2". But although I discovered that "first class" is an exciting (and refreshing) change of pace when it first came out, there is a scene that always pushed me: the one where the villain kills Darwin (Eddie Gategi), a mutant whose job is that he cannot die.

To make a stranger was a racial element: Darwin was the only black man in the group and he was killed simply as a quick method for Sebastian Show (Kevin Bacon) to flex his powers. You may think some fans look too deep in it by running Darwin's race, but that's the movie she's first. Joe gives a speech to young mutants, calling them to join his cause; He says he can either join them or they can be "enslaved", and as he says, the camera is cut right to Darwin.

The film is in parallel here between the struggle of mutants for acceptance and the fight of African Americans throughout American history. (This parallel is even stronger with the movie in the 60s, as the civil rights movement were taking steps.) Just like the X-Men films in the 2000s, they drew a lot of the LGBTK+ movement for their mutants, the focus of Darwin's race, Instead, the film kills Darwin quickly and tumultuous, and the racial parallels in the film are largely released from there.

In a A recent interview With a Hollywood reporter, Eddie Gategi revealed that it was not just fans who were disappointed with the death of his character. When he first read in the script that would happen, he had several notes.

"They gave me a few hours to read the script to determine if I wanted to do it," Gathegi explained. "That's how I read it, and I called on my agents to say, 'Hey, listen, I have a problem with the fact that this character is the only black face in the movie aside from Zoe Kravitz's character. I am also the only mutant to come to half -time death through the film." It was 2009 at the time, and I was like: “Killing the black man is first so playing.

However, the worst part was given false hope for Darwin's fate. As he explained:

"There were conversations that happened, and then they assured us that it was essential for storytelling in order to motivate mutants to avenge the death of my (character). They also intend to return my character as they do in the comics.

Spoiler warning: they don't. Darwin remains dead until the end of this X-Men timeline and no one mentions it in any of the sequels. In his few minutes, Darwin meets as an attractive character with a lot of potential, and "first class" seems to have thrown it all without much thought. As Gathegi has seen, "the message I received as an actor and as a man of this world is you can be the most powerful mutant in the world and they will never allow you to reach your full potential." Only 14 years later, Gathegi will star in a superhero film that sent him the opposite message.

"The pendulum was turning in a completely opposite direction," Gathegi told Tr. "With Mr. terrible in Superman, the message I receive is that you can be one of the most intelligent characters in the universe and help save the world. That's a different level of conversation. "

Surely, The new movie "Superman" It establishes the image of Gheethghi early as an important, intriguing person, and then actually follows. It gives him probably the coolest combat sequence in the whole film, allows him to play a key role in preserving the planet from Rift with a black hole of Lex Lutorand allows him to live to return to the inevitable sequel. Superman did everything "First Class" was supposed to do more.

The experience was exciting for Gathegi, and he explained how nice it was to play a character who was not only important for the narrative, but also undeniable: "When I looked in the mirror, I felt like looking back in a person who could save the world," he said. "So, standing to Superman, there are no words to describe the magic of it."