{"id":16999,"date":"2025-07-23T03:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/16999\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T03:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:30:08","slug":"wonder-man-watch-yahya-abdul-mateen-ii-do-interview-as-simon-williams-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/16999\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Man: Watch Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Do Interview as Simon Williams – Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Wonder Man<\/a> video sees Yahya Abdul-Mateen II<\/a> do an interview in character as Simon Williams.<\/p>\n

Wonder Man is the forthcoming Marvel Television<\/a> miniseries created by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest. Premiering on Disney+<\/a> later this year, the show will see Abdul-Mateen II play the titular character while Ben Kingsley<\/a> will reprise his role as Trevor Slattery.<\/p>\n

What happens in the Wonder Man video?<\/p>\n

Shared on X<\/a> by Marvel Studios<\/a>, the Wonder Man video sees Abdul-Mateen II\u2019s Simon Williams answer questions about his history with the Wonder Man character at the premiere of The Fantastic Four: First Steps.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up a really big fan of Wonder Man, really big fan of comics,\u201d he says in the video. \u201cIt was actually the first movie that I saw in the theater with my father when I was very young. And, you know, that day, I left the theater wanting to be a superhero. So, it\u2019s amazing, and this is actually a very beautiful full-circle moment for me. Incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The interviewer then says, \u201cNow, we\u2019ve heard you\u2019ve become close with problematic public figure Trevor Slattery, aka The Mandarin. Can you tell us a little bit more?\u201d Before he can answer, however, Simon\u2019s PR person ushers him away.<\/p>\n

In Wonder Man, Simon is an actor stuntman who \u201cauditions to become the lead superhero in a new TV show,\u201d per TechRadar<\/a>. \u201cLittle does he know, though, that he\u2019s actually a superpowered individual.\u201d<\/p>\n

How Trevor Slattery \u2014 who made his MCU<\/a> debut in 2013\u2019s Iron Man 3, where he was revealed to be an actor who was hired to pose as the Mandarin \u2014 factors into the story remains to be seen, though the brief footage that\u2019s been released for the show seems to suggest that Kingsley\u2019s character gives Simon some acting advice.<\/p>\n

Marvel<\/a>\u2019s Wonder Man will premiere on Disney+ this coming December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Wonder Man video sees Yahya Abdul-Mateen II do an interview in character as Simon Williams. Wonder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11128,6460,96,5396,5228,11129,7468,2839,3513,56,54,55,11130,11131],"class_list":["post-16999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ben-kingsley","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-studios","tag-marvel-television","tag-mcu","tag-movies","tag-tv-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wonder-man","tag-yahya-abdul-mateen-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}