Olivia Colman may make her Marvel debut in Secret Invasion

Oscar winner Olivia Colman is in talks to star alongside Samuel L. Jackson in Marvel’s Secret Invasion show. Who might she play?

Olivia Colman has won an Oscar for her role in The Favorite, turned heads as Queen Elizabeth II on Netflix’s The Crown, and was hilarious on Amazon Prime Video’s Fleabag. But in today’s Hollywood, you’re no one unless you’re part of a superhero franchise. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Olivia Colman is finally someone.

Or at least, she’s in negotiations to be. THR reports that Colman is in talks to join Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury) in Secret Invasion, one of many Marvel TV shows coming to Disney+ over the next few years. There’s no word on who she might play, but The A.V. Club has a good guess that she could play the main villain of the piece: Vernake, queen of the shape-shifting alien Skrulls, who in the comics discreetly replace people on Earth as part of a…you guessed it…secret invasion.

Yeah, it would kind of be type-casting to cast Colman as another queen, but there’s nothing wrong with sticking to your strengths. The show will also star Ben Mendelsohn’s as Talos, a good guy member of the Skulls introduced in 2019’s Captain Marvel; and Kingsley Ben-Adir (One Night in Miami) as a “likely villain.”

Disney and Marvel Studios are lining up some impressive people to star in these shows. You’ve got Orphan Black veteran Tatiana Maslany as She-Hulk, Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke in Moon Knight, and now the queen of England herself as (maybe) an interstellar space monarch. We see you, Marvel.

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