Dominique Thorne Says "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" Lets Audiences "[Get] to Know" Ironheart

In 2020, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Huerta would be playing the movie's villain, and since then, more details about his character's identity have slowly emerged. Per Entertainment Weekly, he'll be playing Namor, king of a nearby region called Talocan, which was created especially for the film and which is modeled after the ancient Mayan empire. In the comics, Namor is the king of Atlantis and has a long-standing conflict with T'Challa and Wakanda.

Huerta has a thriving career in Spanish-language media; to English-speaking audiences, he's best known for playing infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero on Netflix's "Narcos: Mexico."