COBRA Kai star Xolo Maridueña is shifting from tv to movie in his new endeavor into the DC universe.
The 20-year-old is finest identified for his function as Miguel Diaz in The Karate Child spin-off, Cobra Kai, in 2018.
Who's Xolo Maridueña?
Xolo Maridueña, whose full title is Romário Xolo Maridueña entered the Cobra Kai TV collection at 16 years outdated however received his begin in 2016 on the present Parenthood.
A Los Angeles native, Maridueña attended Cathedral Excessive Faculty earlier than he joined Younger Actors Area (YAS) in California.
The YAS program trains younger actors and says it's "a process-oriented college" that carries out the mission "to coach actors to make robust decisions, get out of their heads, and into their hearts."
Earlier than he took the function of Miguel Diaz on Cobra Kai, Maridueña had prior martial arts expertise, albeit it was from ten years prior.
"I did one 12 months of karate within the first grade," Maridueña mentioned in an interview with Cryptic Rock.
He mentioned the audition mentioned if the actor had karate expertise, it might give them a greater probability of securing the function.
"After reserving the function I believed, 'Nicely, I went for a 12 months of karate, I am athletic, this needs to be a breeze,'" Maridueña mentioned.
"I went in for the primary day of coaching earlier than we even began to movie season one, and our movie coordinator kicked my butt! It was so brutal, I by no means regretted feeling cocky a lot in my life."
The place is his appearing profession headed subsequent?
Maridueña is entering into the DC universe to turn into the subsequent live-action comedian e-book superhero.
His function will pull him into the uniform of Blue Beetle. The character Jaime Reyes turns into the third individual to tackle the superhero function after two males had taken up the mantle.
Within the DC-verse, the Blue Beetle superhero function is taken on by a person who has a historical past working with the scarab beetle, with the character Dan Garrett taking over the talisman first.
Dan Garrett was an archaeologist learning the scarab beetle in an Egyptian tomb when he was granted the powers to battle crime because the Blue Beetle.
Maridueña will now painting the third within the line of Blue Beetle characters as Jaime Reyes who turns into bonded by the identical scarab Dan Garrett had gotten his powers from a long time earlier.
Maridueña says he'll use his expertise engaged on Cobra Kai to convey the suitable combating expertise to his new function as Blue Beetle.
"The chance at “Cobra Kai” has actually blessed me; I can do stunts, we will do loopy stuff," he mentioned in a USA As we speak interview.
"Including this new stage of inexperienced display and fits and CGI and all of this can add an entire new loopy stage to it that I’m so excited for."
Will Xolo Maridueña nonetheless seem in season 5 of Cobra Kai?
Though season 4 of Cobra Kai was launched on December 31, 2021, it was confirmed that season 5 had already completed filming.
With filming for Blue Beetle not set to start till later in 2022, Maridueña will proceed to look by way of season 5.
He advised Selection that he has no intention of instantly leaving the TV collection and plans to proceed within the function of Miguel Diaz.
"I'd love to stay round for nonetheless lengthy would make sense. ... There’s nothing extra dissatisfying than following a present as a loyal fan for years after which having it finish not properly," he mentioned.
"So I hope the present ends when it’s speculated to and we will look again on it years later and say, 'Now we have the chance to do a derivative 35 years from now as a result of it ended with folks wanting extra.'”
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