Cassie Lang will return in “Avengers: Doomsday.”
Kathryn Newton announced on Instagram on Friday that she is one of the, let’s face it, half of SAG-AFTRA’s membership who will be in Marvel’s next big superhero extravaganza. The actress, last seen in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” is back to help the MCU gang save the world from Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr. in villain mode). Newton revealed her return in a tongue-in-cheek fashion on social media, unpacking a box that had a director’s chair with her name on the back of it and the film’s logo on front. It’s a sly nod to the way that Marvel announced all of the heroes and villains who will be returning for the hotly anticipated sequel.
“[It’s] tiny because Cassie Lang gets tiny,” Newton exclaims.
The likely means that Cassie will be following in the miniature steps of her dad, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd). Truthfully, the ant was already out of the bag, because the trailer that Marvel debuted at CinemaCon on Thursday included a shot of Scott/Ant-Man kissing his daughter on the head.
Cassie will have plenty of company. Alongside her dad, returning heroes and villains include Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Panther (Letitia Wright), Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart), Magneto (Ian McKellen) and Gambit (Channing Tatum). Joe and Anthony Russo, the brothers behind “Avengers: Endgame” and “Avengers: Infinity War,” return to direct the sequel.
Newton most recently appeared in “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come,” “Griffin in Summer” and “Lisa Frankenstein.” She is the third actress to play Cassie Lang. Abby Ryder Fortson portrayed her as a child in “Ant-Man” (2015) and “Ant-Man and the Wasp” (2018), and Emma Fuhrmann was the teenage Cassie in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.”
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