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For anyone who hasn’t seen 2013’s “Iron Man 3” — although, given its $1.2 billion global gross, that list isn’t huge — Slattery’s appearance in “Shang-Chi” could feel rather random. In “Iron Man 3,” Slattery is a hedonistic out-of-work actor hired to play “the Mandarin,” i.e. the head of the Ten Rings terrorist organization, as a deliberately provocative amalgamation of various American evil-doer stereotypes meant to distract from the actions of the film’s real villain.
“That first conversation ended with Sir Ben Kingsley shouting to somebody from the other room,” Cretton said. It was only after a few back-and-forths that Cretton realized that Kingsley was actually “talking” to Trevor Slattery, and then holding the phone away from his mouth and replying as if Trevor was shouting back from nearby.
On a thematic level, Cretton was also gratified to have an opportunity to address the history of “the Mandarin” as a racist stereotype from a cruder era in Marvel comics history.
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