It was beforehand revealed that Xochitl Gomez’s character in Doctor Strange within the Multiverse of Madness — America Chavez — represents the LGBTQ neighborhood. The revelation led to the Marvel Cinematic Universe film getting banned in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Following the developments, the 16-year-old actress needed to face hate feedback from a sure part of the web. While Marvel didn’t bow right down to the ban, a number of social media customers targetted Xochitl.
Hate feedback aiming at Xochitl had been posted on platforms comparable to Twitter and TikTok. So a lot in order that Xochitl’s TikTok was banned as effectively. While it’s unclear what led to the ban, a number of Marvel followers consider trolls mass reported her account.
The teenager addressed these hate feedback throughout a media interview. When News18 requested her how she was tackling the hate coming aimed toward her character, Xochitl mentioned, “Online hate is a type of issues that I by no means actually take note of, I’m extra similar to no matter, folks have opinions, and I can’t change folks’s opinions. I can solely be myself. It was solely till my TikTok bought banned that I realised that this (her silence in direction of it) isn’t good,” she mentioned.
Xochitl added that when her TikTok account was restored, she decided not to turn a blind eye. “I got my TikTok back and I posted a TikTok because I know that I do have a very strong young following. So I thought it was only right to post a TikTok of (me saying) nothing can break me down, I’m going to stay strong, just keep going because it’s very important for young teenagers to have a positive person to look up to,” she mentioned.
During the identical interplay, Xochitl was requested about her ideas on Disney taking a stand and her being within the centre of it. She replied, “It’s a giant deal that America is on this film. It’s simply that it’s big and I’m simply so joyful that Marvel has caught to it and saved the scene in there. It’s simply fairly loopy that I get to be the one who performs America and though, sure my title could also be circled in inside hate and stuff, it’s okay.”
However, Benedict Wong (who plays Wong in Doctor Strange 2) was not going to brush the hate off easily. The actor defended her and said, “It’s not okay, it’s not okay. We all have to collectively understand globally that this is a… She auditioned at the age of 13 and she joined us at the age of 14, one of the youngest actors to join MCU film of that magnitude. She’s just a young girl playing her role and full praise for that, that is what she should be doing so there is a real level of shame for all those trolls that are cowards, not to actually put their face on and they should feel deep shame about what they’re doing. Let’s all just play nice, let’s all just enjoy what we’re doing, what we’re representing. It’s sad that fans in that country won’t get a chance to see this as yet. All we’re doing is representing, and voicing the voiceless and that’s all we can do so that they can be seen.”
Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness in theatres in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam on May 6, 2022.
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