Emma Fuhrmann.Photo: Vivien Killilea/Getty
Emma Fuhrmannis speaking out after being replaced as Cassie Lang in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The actress, who played the daughter of Scott Lang (a.k.a. Ant-Man) inAvengers: Endgame, thanked fans for their well wishes on Twitter Monday, after Marvel Studios announced thatKathryn Newtonwould be taking over the role in the upcoming third filmAnt-Manfilm,Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
“Just wanted to come on here & say that I see all your kind messages,” wrote the 19-year-old, adding a red heart emoji. “Thank you for all your support. Ithas meant the world to me. I was as sad as you all were to hear the news Thursday. I can only hope that this means there is something else for me in the future of the MCU.”
Fuhrmann said in a follow-up tweetthat she “will always be gratefulto have been a part of the MCU & the biggest movie of all time.”
“Being an actress is still my #1 passion & I look forward to what the future holds,” she concluded.
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“Peyton Reed is back to direct the third Ant-Man film,Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.Paul Rudd,Evangeline Lilly,Michael Douglas, andMichelle Pfeifferall return,” thestudio’s announcement read. “Kathryn Newton joins the cast as Cassie Lang and Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror.”
Fuhrmann’s version of Cassie inAvengers: Endgamesaw her aged up after her dad Scott (Rudd, 51) returned from the quantum realm five years after the events ofAnt-Man and the Wasp, only to find that villain Thanos (Josh Brolin) had snapped away half of the planet — including Hope van Dyne/The Wasp (Lilly, 41) and her parents, Janet van Dyne (Pfeiffer, 62) and Hank Pym (Douglas, 76).
Cassie is shown near the beginning of the film in an emotional reunion with a formerly presumed-dead Scott, who tearfully proclaims that she looks “so big,” and again at the end, happily bonding with her dad and his love Hope.
Paul Rudd and Emma Fuhrmann inAvengers: Endgame.
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Back in August 2019, Fuhrmann toldThe International Business Timesthat she had “Wikipedia’d Cassie Lang” and “learned about the character herself from the comics and the films there.”
“On top of that, I went back and watched every single Marvel film in order,” she said. “So that was pretty much my prep. I didn’t get comics before set, but I did get them after. And I can say that I’ve read some comics myself.”
Of becoming a superhero like Cassie (who, in the comics, later becomes known as Stature and Stinger), the young actress toldIBTthat “it would be a complete dream come true.”
“I just think having girls seemore and more female superheroesnowadays is just so empowering, and I would love to be a part of that,” Fuhrmann added.
source: people.com
