Whoops. Thanks to a review leaking the info, Sacha Baron Cohen’s character is revealed for Marvel’s Ironheart.
As they say, the devil is in the details.
Spoilers below.
Who is Sacha Baron Cohen playing in Ironheart?
What should come as no surprise if you have been following all the news and rumors, it’s revealed that Sacha Baron Cohen is indeed playing Mephisto.
The reveal comes thanks to a review from the UK’s Telegraph who notes:
An old favourite delivers the bad boy goods. It’s been a while since the arrival of Sacha Baron Cohen has inspired anything other than an indifferent shrug, but he steals the show here – admittedly not difficult – as a pantomime villain version of that old favourite, the Devil, here going by one of their many noms d’evil, Mephisto.
Mephisto leaked image?
This is what Sacha Baron Cohen reportedly looks like as Mephisto from an earlier leak.
Update: Image is a fake. Here is a first look at Sacha Baron Cohen. Apparently, he doesn’t appear in his “devil” form. Note: We go over spoilers here.
Ironheart and Mephisto fail to deliver
The review isn’t a good one, it gives Ironheart 2 out of 5 stars (ouch) and adds about Cohen and Mephisto:
Foxily marrying Danny Dyer’s accent – we Brits are always the evil ones in this kind of caper – with Victorian-style face furniture, Baron Cohen’s Mephisto feels parachuted into Ironheart from an altogether higher camp planet, a hammed up slice of melodrama many worlds away from Ironheart’s weary stab at a cool urban milieu.
At the eleventh hour, Mephisto kickstarts the momentum of a show that too often gets bogged down in box-ticking emotional backstories and half-baked explorations of the potential ramifications of AI. If Mephisto had locked horns with Ironheart earlier, we might have had a show worth saving. Instead, it looks headed for the ever-mounting superhero scrapheap.
Per the info for the series, it seems as if Mephisto gives Ironheart magical abilities for some reason. Is she dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight, too?
What’s next for Mephisto in the MCU?
While promoting the series, both Domique Thorne and Anthony Ramos said they don’t think it’s the last we will see of Mephisto.
“I hope not,” Thorne told ETOnline.
She added, “We know how much the fans, and how long the fans, have been waiting for that. For it to be in this show that they get him, let’s go.”
Ramos teased, “He’s one of the elite actors of our time, too, so that also helps [laughs].”
The final three episodes of Marvel’s Ironheart streams Tuesday on Disney+.
