We have updates on two major actresses confirming their roles in big superhero tentpoles, with Kiersey Clemons (Dope) confirming her Iris West will have a cameo in Justice League, and The Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira confirmed to reprise her Black Panther role of Okoye in Avengers: Infinity War.
Despite setbacks after her Dope director Rick Famuyiwa vacated the director’s seat of The Flash solo film, Clemons will debut Iris West in Warner Bros. Pictures‘ DC Comics adaptation of Justice League, which is set to open on November 10, 2017.
The film is directed by Ryan Coogler and produced by Kevin Feige with Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Nate Moore, Jeffrey Chernov and Stan Lee serving as executive producers.
Meanwhile, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Gurira is reported by Deadline to appear in Marvel Studios‘ Infinity War as Okoye, a member of the Dora Milaje, i.e., the elite personal female bodyguards of King T’Challa.