by: Alana Brown-Davis
The ‘Superman’ movie is hitting theaters across the world this Friday, and the anticipation is crazier than ever. ‘Superman’ is slated to become one of the most important films of the summer, and possibly the year. After the ‘Man of Steel’ era starring Henry Cavill, this new Kid from Krypton has been long awaited and also a adjustment for DC comic aficionados. There’d be no good Superman story without the fairytale love of Clark Kent and Lois Lane. However, this adaptation welcomes new stories like that of The Engineer played by Maria Gabriela de Faria.
This past Monday, the star wowed the red carpet at the TCL Theater in Los Angeles for the world premiere. In a captivating black sheer gown with lace, de Faria certainly dressed the part of a villainess with the confidence of the goddesses.
De Faria is making history as the first Venezuelan in the DC Universe. Her resume includes movies like ‘The Duel’ where she played Aphrodite, as well as ‘ The Exorcism of God’. Her character Angela Spica aka ‘The Engineer’ is an ally to Superman’s sworn enemy Lex Luthor, a relentless businessman played by Nicholas Hoult. Spica is a scientist who has nanotechnology built into her body that allows her to shape-shift.
In an interview with Comic Book, she spoke of how she dove into the character preparing herself mentally and physically for it. “The more she interacts with machines, the more she becomes a machine herself. And I feel that humanity gets a little bit lost every time she does that. Inside of her, I feel there are like two wolves, the machine and the human, who really, really tries to still be there. But the human feels, the human has a conscience, the human has a heart. So when she has to work for Lex and get to those goals that she believes are the right thing for humanity, the human cannot be around. It has to be the machine. So, it was a lot about that strength and how that feels in the body.
“When she connects to the machine, is it tickling? Am I feeling punctures? What is this? With James, we really came to that together, and it was a great creative process to play kind of a machine like that.”
Her role as ‘The Engineer’ introduces viewers and comic lovers to ‘The Authority’. The Authority is a by-any-means-necessary group of vigilantes that The Engineer is a part of. DC is seguing into this new film through the introduction of de Faria’s character.
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