Scottish actor Ruaridh Mollica has said he hopes fans will accept his accent as he stars in the latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
The 27-year-old plays the speedster Tommy Maximoff in the new Disney+ miniseries VisionQuest, which is based on the superhero comic book character Vision.
Tommy is an 18-year-old orphan who is newly out of the foster care system in London but has memories of his mother and father – Avengers Wanda Maximoff and Vision.
Mollica told The Saturday Show on BBC Radio Scotland that speaking in his own accent helped him give the character a fuller personality.
“I want the fans to like what I have done with the character and accept that I have a Scottish accent,” he said.
“It threw a lot of people off at the start, but having my own accent meant I could put my own spin on the character.”
The eight-episode series has been described as the conclusion of a trilogy that also includes WandaVision and Agatha All Along.
Its cast includes Marvel veteran Paul Bettany, award-winning actor James Spader and British performer Joe Locke, who Mollica made his London West End debut with.
When Mollica was added to the lineup in October 2025, he described it as “the best day of my life”.
“I submitted the self tape into the abyss thinking I’m never going to get the role, but after a five-month audition process I was on the plane to New York to do a screen test with Paul Bettany and Terry Matalas, who created the series,” he said.
“My manager in America phoned me and goes, ‘your life is about to change, kid,’ and I just cried.
“I bawled my eyes out, sat on a wall and it started raining in a prophetic fallacy kind of way.”