{"id":118049,"date":"2024-01-09T13:14:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T13:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/marvels-echo-director-sydney-freeland-on-maya-the-goal-wasnt-to-turn-her-into-captain-america\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T13:14:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T13:14:16","slug":"marvels-echo-director-sydney-freeland-on-maya-the-goal-wasnt-to-turn-her-into-captain-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/marvels-echo-director-sydney-freeland-on-maya-the-goal-wasnt-to-turn-her-into-captain-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel\u2019s Echo director Sydney Freeland on Maya: \u201cThe goal wasn\u2019t to turn her into Captain America\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; border-bottom: 1px dashed #979797; padding-bottom: 25px;\" id=\"63710-0\" data-photourl=\"https:\/\/www.filmfare.com\/news\/hollywood\/marvels-echo-director-sydney-freeland-on-maya-the-goal-wasnt-to-turn-her-into-captain-america-63710.html\" data-seourl=\"https:\/\/www.filmfare.com\/news\/hollywood\/marvels-echo-director-sydney-freeland-on-maya-the-goal-wasnt-to-turn-her-into-captain-america-63710.html\" data-contentid=\"63710\" data-contype=\"1\" data-metatitle=\"Marvel\u2019s Echo director Sydney Freeland on Maya: \u201cThe goal wasn\u2019t to turn her into Captain America\u201d\" data-image=\"https:\/\/filmfare.wwmindia.com\/content\/2024\/jan\/marvelechocaptainamerica41704786008.jpg\" data-load=\"0\">\n<div id=\"photo_63710_0\" class=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThe director of Marvel\u2019s newest collection, Echo, has opened up concerning the MCU villain. Starring Alaqua Cox, Vincent D\u2019Onofrio, K. Devery Jacobs and extra, the collection delves into Maya Lopez\u2019s Choctaw Nation roots as he returns to Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>At a press convention, attended by Filmfare, director Sydney Freeland shared insights about spotlighting the character who&#8217;s a deaf-mute, Native American. She mentioned, \u201cEverything stems from the story. What is the character? Where are they coming from? Where are they going? What is the emotion? We have Maya Lopez who is introduced as a villain in Hawkeye. That was really our jumping-off point with Wilson Fisk and the New York criminal underworld.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 1200px; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfare.wwmindia.com\/content\/2024\/jan\/marvelechocaptainamerica11704786025.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Marvel Echo Captain America\" class=\"ed-img lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Echo is not going to attempt to paint Maya Lopez as an out-and-out hero, revealed the director. \u201cIt\u2019s actually very interesting that she\u2019s a villain. So the goal was never to try to turn her into Captain America. In the conversations with Marvel, the response was, \u2018Hey, let\u2019s lean into that. Let\u2019s see if we can push it out a little. Let\u2019s see how far we can go down that rabbit hole.\u2019 The tone and the visual style came from the story and the circumstances of the character,\u201d she mentioned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 1200px; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfare.wwmindia.com\/content\/2024\/jan\/marvelechocaptainamerica21704786035.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Marvel Echo Captain America\" class=\"ed-img lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div>\n<p>She added, \u201cWe checked out, \u2018Oh, this is a deaf, indigenous amputee girl from Oklahoma. How the hell does she end up being one of the top-ranking lieutenants in Kingpin&#8217;s army?\u2019 And answering these questions was such an thrilling place to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Echo will launch on January 10, 2024.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\nif( typeof skinningExist !== 'undefined' && skinningExist == true){\n\tdocument.getElementById('socialsticky').style.display=\"none\";\n}\nwindow.fbAsyncInit = function() {    \n\tFB.init({\n\t\tappId  : '301265226619562',\n\t\tsession : '', \/\/ don't refetch the session when PHP already has it\n\t\tstatus : true, \/\/ check login status\n\t\tcookie : true, \/\/ enable cookies to allow the server to access the session\n\t\txfbml  : true,  \/\/ parse XFBML\t\n\t\toauth: true\t\t\t\t \n\t});\t\n};\n(function(d, s, id) {\n\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\tjs.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The director of Marvel\u2019s newest collection, Echo, has opened up concerning the MCU villain. Starring Alaqua Cox, Vincent D\u2019Onofrio, K. Devery Jacobs and extra, the collection delves into Maya Lopez\u2019s Choctaw Nation roots as he returns to Oklahoma. 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