Michael Mando Says ‘Brand New Day’ Isn’t the End of Scorpion’s Story
As Spider-Man: Brand New Day enters its second weekend, one of its actors is glad to be back in action. Michael Mando first entered the MCU as Mac Gargan in 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming. Despite a post-credits scene teeing him up, it wasn’t until this new movie that Gargan returned, now working as the supervillain Scorpion.
- ▪As Spider-Man: Brand New Day enters its second weekend, one of its actors is glad to be back in action.
- ▪Michael Mando first entered the MCU as Mac Gargan in 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming.
- ▪Despite a post-credits scene teeing him up, it wasn’t until this new movie that Gargan returned, now working as the supervillain Scorpion.
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As Spider-Man: Brand New Day enters its second weekend, one of its actors is glad to be back in action. Michael Mando first entered the MCU as Mac Gargan in 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming. Despite a post-credits scene teeing him up, it wasn’t until this new movie that Gargan returned, now working as the supervillain Scorpion. For anyone thinking it was about time, Mando told the Hollywood Reporter it was something he tried to put out of his head. While he was busy playing Nacho in Better Call Saul, he “didn’t try to predict my destiny in any way. I trusted that things will come around when they do, if they do.” In Mando’s words, he had two creative meetings about Scorpion’s returning in Brand New Day, and met director Daniel Destin Cretton at the second.
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