![]() While she played it cool with Reed over Zoom, Newton confesses that on set, she was consistently surprised to see just how much it felt as though this iteration of Cassie had been written specifically for her. The fact that Cassie was recast for this film and that Newton will be joining the Ant-Man and The Waspensemble (Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, and Michelle Pfeiffer), who have already worked together, will amplify that emotional distance between the characters. This will serve her well in what she describes as the very “grounded” story of Quantumania, in which Scott Lang ( Paul Rudd) makes a deal with Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors) to get more time with his daughter Cassie after the Blip stole five years from them, rendering them near-strangers. The latter two roles especially have allowed Newton to tap into the power of playing characters who are initially discounted, only to calculate their way out of a never-ending day or reveal how deadly a teenage girl can be if she’s underestimated. “If I’m promoting a movie or on a movie on my birthday, it’s gonna be a great year,” she tells Den of Geek magazine over Zoom from her Los Angeles home-from the same room, in fact, where she first spoke with director Peyton Reed about the possibility of playing teenage superhero Cassandra Lang: “I remember finishing the Zoom and telling him, ‘This is going to be a really great movie, and whoever plays Cassie Lang is gonna have the time of her life.’” 17.Įven though she’ll be boarding a red-eye to Toronto instead of blowing out candles, Newton feels very lucky to combine these personal and professional achievements. Never one to shy away from setting ambitious goals, she told herself that “if you don’t get to be a Marvel superhero by the age of 25, get something else going-don’t quit acting, but find something else, go back to college.” So what a birthday gift it is to hit that career milestone right under the wire: The actress, who has been working in Hollywood almost her entire life, will turn 26 while jetting between premieres for Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, out Feb. ![]() Kathryn Newton is having the opposite of a quarter-life crisis. This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine.
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