‘Echo’: Alaqua Cox On Exploring Maya’s Emotional Depth In Marvel Series
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the finale of Marvel Studios’ Echo. “Generations are echoing, reaching out to us at a time when we need them most.” Those are the words of wisdom imparted on Maya Lopez [Alaqua Cox] by her grandmother Chula [Tantoo Cardinal] as she grapples with how to relinquish herself from the pain of her past and embrace the parts of herself she was never able to after she and her father were exiled from their reservation.
It’s one of several scenes in the final two episodes of Marvel’s Echo that pack an emotional punch, cracking Maya open until she’s no longer the heartless assassin audiences first met in Hawkeye.
Cox had never acted before she was cast as Maya, so Echo represents more than just her first time as No. 1 on a call sheet. It was also the first time she’d been able to explore those emotional depths of a character and decide the kind of actor she wanted to be.
Maya is a deaf, Indigenous amputee, putting a ton of pressure on Marvel and Cox to nail the character and her emotional journey.
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