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The New Mutants features a same-sex love story between Maisie Williams’ Wolsfbane and Blu Hunt’s Mirage

March 10, 2020 by EJ Moreno

After years of waiting for the release of The New Mutants, director Josh Boone is finally opening up about the journey and some of the film’s more important details. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Boone has revealed that while the film is described as supernatural horror, there’s “a beautiful love story” at the center of the film, “which I know is a weird thing to hear”.

Boone confirms that the story he penned with screenwriter Knate Lee features a same-sex relationship between Rahne Sinclair (Maisie Williams) and Danielle Moonstar (Blu Hunt): “It’s sort of the spine and focus of some of the character-driven stuff in the film.”

“Rahne and Dani have a telepathic connection in the comics, and so we just wanted to extend that in the film and put that within reality,” actress Maisie Williams explains. “If they really could understand each other on that level, then you’d probably end up falling in love with that person.” Williams clarifies the relationship is “not something that is spoken about too much in the film”, but that’s also why she loved it as it didn’t feel like a “gimmick.”

“It’s not really a story about these two characters understanding their sexuality,” Williams continues. “It’s not centered around that, and they don’t really necessarily label it. No one else does either, and no one really questions it.”

SEE ALSO: Josh Boone and Maisie Williams discuss The New Mutants, confirm there were no reshoots

20th Century Fox in association with Marvel Entertainment presents “The New Mutants,” an original horror thriller set in an isolated hospital where a group of young mutants is being held for psychiatric monitoring. When strange occurrences begin to take place, both their new mutant abilities and their friendships will be tested as they battle to try and make it out alive.

The New Mutants is directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) and features a cast includes Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) as Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane, Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch) as Illyana Rasputin/Magik, Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) as Sam Guthrie/Cannonball, Henry Zaga (13 Reasons Why) as Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, Blu Hunt (The Originals) as Danielle Moonstar/Mirage and Alice Braga (Queen of the South) as Dr. Cecilia Reyes. It is set for release on April 3rd, 2020.

Filed Under: Movies, News Tagged With: Blu Hunt, Maisie Williams, Marvel, The New Mutants, X-Men

About EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno is a film and television critic and entertainment writer who joined the pop culture website Flickering Myth in 2018 and now serves as the executive producer of Flickering Myth TV, a YouTube channel with over 27,000 subscribers. With over a decade of experience, he is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic who is also part of the Critics Choice Association and GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

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