{"id":255159,"date":"2026-01-28T02:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/255159\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T02:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:45:09","slug":"how-ben-kingsley-took-trevor-slattery-from-iron-man-3-villain-to-wonder-man-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/255159\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ben Kingsley Took Trevor Slattery from \u2018Iron Man 3\u2019 Villain to \u2018Wonder Man\u2019 Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Kingsley never expected Trevor Slattery<\/a> to endure \u2014\u00a0let alone to someday star in his own Marvel Television series.<\/p>\n

The Academy Award winner first joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a> with 2013\u2019s Iron Man 3<\/a>,\u00a0starring as the down-on-his-luck actor Trevor (who poses as the terrorist leader known as the Mandarin<\/a>). Kingsley later reprised the role in the 2014 Marvel One-Shot All Hail the King\u00a0and the 2021 film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings<\/a>.\u00a0Now, Trevor is stepping back into the spotlight, this time headlining the new Marvel Television series Wonder Man<\/a>\u00a0(premiering January 27 on Disney+).<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are not many beloved characters one can have an opportunity of revisiting so many times,\u201d Kingsley tells Marvel.com. \u201cTrevor Slattery now has his own franchise, which is very bizarre! I don\u2019t think he would have ever believed that as a struggling actor on stage in Liverpool!\u201d<\/p>\n

Created by Andrew Guest and Shang-Chi\u00a0director Destin Daniel Cretton, Wonder Man\u00a0follows Trevor as he returns to Hollywood and strikes up an unlikely friendship with Simon Williams<\/a>, an aspiring actor played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Together, the two thespians find themselves bonding over their shared love of the craft, as they both pursue life-changing roles in a remake of the 1980s movie Wonder Man.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The show\u2019s emotional heart is the odd-couple relationship between Simon and Trevor: Both are at wildly different points in their careers, as Simon is eager to land his big break and Trevor wonders whether his glory days have already passed him by. But there\u2019s a genuine warmth to their friendship, something that Kingsley says has always been a part of Trevor\u2019s DNA.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrevor is, at his heart, a kind person,\u201d Kingsley explains. \u201cIn the biblical sense, he has fallen amongst thieves, but he has made an attempt to restore himself and also made a concerted effort to be the actor his mother always dreamed he would become. There is a lasting bond between Trevor and his late mother, and it is that ambition that drives him to justify himself in her eyes, even though she may be in heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Kingsley never expected Trevor Slattery to endure \u2014\u00a0let alone to someday star in his own Marvel Television…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-255159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}