Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s Kathryn Newton Is Living Out Her Superhero Dreams and Revealing Paul Rudd’s Best Advice
16.02.2023 - 23:09
/ usmagazine.com
Achieving her wildest dreams. Kathryn Newton spent years wanting to play a superhero, and she finally suits up as Cassie Lang in Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
“I saw Iron Man when I was I was 8 or 9 with my dad,” Newton, 26, recalled in an exclusive interview with Us Weekly earlier this month. “We went to the theater, and I remember seeing that movie and being so inspired … I wanted to be the biggest Marvel superhero of all time. It was always my dream. And I think it’s ironic because Cassie Lang literally grows 40 feet tall and shrinks to the size of an ant. So she might just be the biggest one in the MCU. That tells you, you can dream big — but you better be specific.”
Marvel fans met Cassie as a 6-year-old in 2015’s Ant-Man and 2018’s Ant-Man and the Wasp. Quantumania, out Friday, February 17, catches up with Cassie as a young adult who spent five years believing her dad, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), was dead during the events of 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. The 18-year-old is ready to follow in her father’s footsteps — even if the adults around her disagree.
“We all have that moment where we think it’s so easy to do good, but we have no idea the power that we wield and we don’t really know what to do with it,” Newton explained. “So she’s learning just as a girl, not even as a superhero, how to harness her power and what to do with it.”
Cassie shares her dad’s talent for science and engineering, and she even has an interest in the Quantum Realm — perhaps a little too much interest. Cassie’s extracurricular activities lead Scott, Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) back to the Quantum Realm where they find a war brewing. They’re quickly separated