‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’: Meet Dominique Thorne, Marvel’s new iron woman
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Photo caption: Dominique Thorne makes her Marvel debut in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” before starring in Disney+’s “Ironheart.” Photo credit: Marcus Ezell. Article by Brian Truitt. USA Today – November 13, 2022.
It’d be pretty tough to top Dominique Thorne’s November: She wrapped filming on her new Disney+ series “Ironheart,” makes her Marvel superhero debut in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and just turned 25. She flies high – and delivers the biggest breakout in an iron suit since Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark – as Riri Williams in “Wakanda Forever” (in theaters now), where Thorne, an inventive 19-year-old gearhead and MIT student, battles alongside Wakandan heroes such as Shuri (Letitia Wright) and Okoye (Danai Gurira) in her own armored creation. […]