
When Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley was cast as the villain of 2013’s Iron Man 3, no one could have predicted where things would go from there. For starters, Kingsley wasn’t actually playing iconic Marvel villain the Mandarin; he was Trevor Slattery, a washed-up actor posing as the Mandarin. From there, Kingsley reprised the role in a 2014 short about his character, All Hail the King, and again in 2021 with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. That, by all accounts, could have…

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