During a 2021 interview with AwardsWatch, Colman Domingo said that he wants to play the villain in a superhero film. He wasn’t preferential to either Marvel or DC, but he did mention that he’s built a physique that would make him fit the evil mold. “I’m jumping in. When it comes to Marvel or DC, I think I’m ready now,” said Domingo. “You know I’m worked out, fit. I think I want to play a villain — I just want to be the villain. I don’t want to be the good guy.”
While he’s not broken any official ground on that front, Domingo is aware of the fan casting. He explained to Entertainment Tonight that no one had approached him regarding the role. “I know there’s talk and conversations around, and I don’t know how much is true. I don’t even get that from my team, I can’t tell if it’s true or not,” said the actor. “The fans are passionate. Somehow my name is out there in the world [and] I like the idea of just having your name called and someone speaking lovingly and kindly about something is a beautiful thing.”
Marvel is notoriously unkind about fan casting. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” destroyed a popular “Fantastic Four” dream casting by killing John Krasinski, and “WandaVision” turned Evan Peter’s chance at reprising Quicksilver into a boner joke. All this to say, fans shouldn’t take Domingo’s politically lukewarm response as disinterest. He’s probably just setting reasonable expectations.
