The Marvels (2023) Review
The catastrophic $237 million loss that confirmed audience withdrawal. Body-swap premise, Captain Marvel continuation, and franchise collapse.
Teyonah Parris appeared in Mad Men and Dear White People before WandaVision gave her Monica Rambeau, requiring her to perform inside multiple decades of sitcom pastiche within a grief narrative.
Chi-Raq, for Spike Lee, gave her a lead in a film adapting Lysistrata to Chicago gun violence, and Candyman and The Marvels followed. She trained at Juilliard.