Blac🔥k Widow star O-T Fagbenle has revealed that he originally auditioned for another, very differen꧋t role in the Marvel movie: Taskmaster.

"Basically, I first auditioned for Taskmaster, and it was a really incredible💎 speech, actually. It was an audition I was very proud of," Fagbenle told . "I've still got it in the back someplace. I made him with an African accent, and he was this kind of maniacal-like character."

Instead, he ended up playing Rick Mason in the 2021 prequel, a figure from Natasha's past with ties to S.H.I.E.L.D. Taskmaster ended up being th🦋e alter ego of Antonia Dreykov, played by Olga Kurylenko, a Red Room assassin with photographic reflexes who's manipulated by her father.

"In the various iterations of the movie, that version of Taskmaster went away, and then they just came to me and were like, 'Hey, there is this character called Mason, do you want to play Mason?'" Fagbenle continued. "So I was like, 'Hell yeah, I'd l🦩ove to play Mason!' And so, the Taskmaster that I was going to be d💮idn't exist in that iteration of Black Widow."

Mason, however, made a brief appearance in the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Disney Plus series Secret Invasion in 2023, but Fagbenle hopes that isn't the last we've seen of him in the MCU. "Listen, this what I said to Eric [Pearson, scrඣeenwriter], I said, 'Why are you leaving me out of Thunderbolts*, man? I did come back. I did some Secret Invasion, Mason appeared there. And so, yeah, I mean, like a true superhero, when they give me the call [I'm ready to go]."

Kurylenko's Taskmaster returned to the big screen in new Marvel movie 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Thunderbolts*, alongside her Black Widow co-stars Florence Pugh and David Harbour. However, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:things don't go so well for her...

Thunderbolts* is out now in theaters. For more on the movie, check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Thunderbolts* review and our guide to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Thunderbolts* post-credits scenes.