When\u00a0Stranger Things\u00a0alum Sadie Sink was cast in\u00a0Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Jeff Sneider was first to report that she would play Jean Grey. Initially, that was easy to dismiss as nonsense\u00a0because why would Marvel Girl make her MCU debut in a\u00a0Spider-Man\u00a0movie?<\/p>\n
Since then, speculation about who Sink is playing has dominated the conversation. Just as it was starting to look like she might be Shathra, there were rumblings among social media’s usual suspects that the villain’s name being put out there was a misdirect to throw any leakers off the scent. Names like\u00a0Rachel Cole-Alves, Firestar, and Spider-Girl have also been thrown around<\/p>\n
Rumour has it that the Department of Damage Control will be hunting Sink’s character in Spider-Man: Brand New Day and that, post-Avengers: Secret Wars, they’ll be the ones tasked with keeping mutants in check (likely using the Stark Industries resources they’ve seized to create Sentinels).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sink is already confirmed for Avengers: Secret Wars, and taking that into account, Jean arguably makes the most sense. Today, trusted leaker\u00a0@Cryptic4KQual<\/a>\u00a0has chimed in to reveal that\u00a0Sadie Sink is playing the MCU’s Jean Grey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.<\/p>\n While still not “officially” confirmed, this is probably the most reliable source to have linked Sink with Jean. With mutants slowly showing up on the Sacred Timeline (Ms. Marvel, Namor, and Wonder Man), we may meet Earth-616’s Jean as her powers start to develop, and by the time the X-Men reboot rolls around, she’ll likely be part of the team as the future Phoenix.<\/p>\n There are surely worse ways to introduce one of X-Men’s leads than in Spider-Man and Avengers movies, even if it does feel like an odd way to eventually put Jean front and centre in Jake Schreier’s upcoming reboot.<\/p>\n Discussing her MCU role, Sink previously said,\u00a0“Oh, it was crazy. I found out while we were wrapping up season five [of Stranger Things]. Spider-Man has always been my favorite. I love Spider-Man. I love Tom\u2019s Spider-Man, especially.\u00a0To be a fan of something and then join it is a familiar feeling for me, because I was a fan of Stranger Things before I joined the show.”<\/p>\n “I was super excited about what they had planned.\u00a0I also worked with the director, Destin Daniel Cretton, in one of the first movies I ever did when I was 14, so it\u2019s kind of a full-circle moment. I had an amazing time working on that film. I can\u2019t wait to talk about it more. There\u2019s so much I want to share.”<\/p>\n “That\u2019s why I feel like keeping Stranger Things secrets are kind of easy,” she added, “because I have so many Spider-Man secrets I\u2019m sitting on that feel even more secretive.”<\/p>\n The first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day is expected to swing online next month, meaning we hopefully won’t have much longer to wait before Sink’s role as Jean Grey is made official.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
She’s Jean Grey. pic.twitter.com\/2AkxAOLMiv<\/a><\/p>\n
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