Actress Alaqua Cox relates to deaf Native American amputee superhero Echo in Marvel series

Actress Alaqua Cox relates to deaf Native American amputee superhero Echo in Marvel series

The Straits Times - Lifestyle·2024-01-09 15:01

LOS ANGELES – The protagonist of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Echo, Maya Lopez, is not your typical superhero.

The Native American is also deaf and an amputee with a prosthetic leg.

And the actress who plays her, Alaqua Cox, shares all these characteristics – making her the first disabled actress, as well as the first indigenous American, to be the lead in a Marvel production.

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