Drag Race royalty Shea Couleé is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in an unnamed role – and fans think they know who she's going to play.
Couleé confirmed the news on Twitter on Wednesday (3 August) saying : "BEYOND excited to be strutting out of the Werkroom right into the Marvel Cinematic Universe."
She will star in the new Disney+ series Ironheart. Dominique Thorne will play the titular hero Riri Williams, a genius inventor.
There's been no official announcement on who Shea will be playing, but fans say all the evidence is pointing to one character.
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In 2019, Marvel comics writer Sina Grace and Nathan Stockman unveiled the first ever drag queen mutant superhero: Shade, more recently known as Darkveil.
Darkveil has the power to teleport by thworp-ing her fan (really), shows up to mutant pride parades and is all around fabulous.
Grace has said she was inspired by a number of drag queens in creating Darkveil, including one Shea Couleé.
In an interview with World of WOnder, she said : "Darkveil (formerly Shade) was inspired by so many drag queens, but I’ve kinda been officially quoted as saying that Shea Coulee, Dax Exclamation Point, The Vixen, and Monet X Change were my main go-tos."
Shea Couleé has previously said she'd "love to be cast as Darkveil in a Marvel film",
"The first drag queen to make an appearance in the Marvel Universe,” she told Fast Company , “and she was based off of me."
A mutant drag queen inspired by Couleé herself - seems like the perfect fit to us.
As one person wrote : "Shea confirmed that she’s going to be in the new Ironheart [series] and if that means that we’re getting Shea Coulee as Darnell Wade aka Shade aka Darkveil I will lose my f***ing s**t"
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