As he gears up to bring Ghost Rider into the Marvel Cinematic Universe this coming Tuesday with the premiere episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season four, Gabriel Luna has been chatting to CBR about taking on the role of the Spirit of Vengeance.
“You know, the moment I found out, all they had to say was two words: ‘Ghost Rider’,” said Luna. “If that doesn’t get you fired up and make you want to do everything you can and do all the work necessary to make that character the best you can make him – first of all to get the job, but then to execute once you’re there – I don’t know what does. But it was also cool just knowing that the audience is built in. It’s been here since the ’60s.”
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Rather than Johnny Blaze or Danny Ketch, Luna is playing the most recent incarnation of the Spirit of Vengeance, Robbie Reyes, and he also spoke about the opportunity that provides:
“It’s extremely cool, man. The book itself, the All-New Ghost Rider book by Felipe Smith and penciled by Tradd Moore and Damion Scott – it’s such a cool take. The Spirit of Vengeance has inhabited many individuals in the past, and Robbie just happens to be our latest iteration of Ghost Rider – just in time for me to step in and represent him as a Mexican-American, and as a kid from LA. I am from Austin, Texas, but I seem to play a lot of kids from LA. But yeah, I just thought it was a great opportunity, to expand on the canon and to do things that are going to be known as the things Robbie Reyes’ Ghost Rider did.”
Catch Ghost Rider’s debut this coming Tuesday, September 20th when Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns to ABC.
Originally published September 14, 2016. Updated October 24, 2022.
