[EXCLUSIVE] Luna Lauren Velez and her crucial role in the ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ storyline
us.hola.comLuna Lauren Velez has returned to the big screen! Fans of the Academy Award-Winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse will be delighted to hear that Velez is reprising her role as Rio Morales in this summer’s sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as the heart of the movie and mother to Miles Morales / Spider-Man.
Velez’s beloved nurse character will play a crucial role in the storyline alongside Brian Tyree Henry’s Jeffersoxfn Davis character. “I didn’t have this growing up.
I didn’t see a movie where the heroes were, you know, look anything like me, my father or sisters and brothers,” the actress notes. “So I think those are the things that excite me the most about the movie.”The franchise also portrays the Morales family differently, as Hollywood has used people to see on the big screen. “This family is successful.
They’re professionals. They live in Brooklyn in a brownstone, their son is going to school, and it’s been accepted to some great colleges.
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