The advertising for Black Widow has teed up a giant thriller within the film: who’s Taskmaster? As revealed within the trailers, the enigmatic metal-masked antagonist has taken cost of the Pink Room and all its Black Widow assassins, so Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) and Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) have gotten to take him all the way down to rescue their sisters. However who’s the person behind the masks?
Although the promotional materials for the movie has stored this quiet, it’s really turn into fairly a well known reality by now. Beforehand, star O-T Fagbenle shared a photograph on Instagram utilizing the Taskmaster hashtag, which he rapidly deleted. Pairing this with the truth that his character, Mason, has been completely absent from the trailers, and it paints a reasonably conclusive image. When you’re nonetheless not satisfied although, the actor’s once more virtually let slip that he’s Black Widow’s new nemesis.
The British thesp shared an Instagram Stay video this week by which he remotely chatted with a good friend. When you observe the hyperlink on the backside of the web page and soar to across the 6-minute mark, you’ll see Fagbenle deliver up the Marvel villain. “There’s a complete conspiracy principle that I’m Taskmaster.” His good friend then replied, “you in all probability are.” As an alternative of denying it, the star stated, “you’re attempting to get it out as properly? I assumed we spoke about this, I assumed we had been going to maintain some s*** on the DL.”
Like I stated, the identification of Taskmaster has turn into an open secret by this level. Even with out these social media slip-ups although, Mason is the prime candidate attributable to how he’s been stored out of the trailers, in a bid to wrong-foot the followers. To some extent this has labored, as some have suspected Rachel Weisz’s Melina prior to now. There’s an excessive amount of proof that Taskmaster is male, nonetheless, for that to actually add up. Not that Melina’s completely off the hook, thoughts you.
In any case, we’ll lastly categorically discover out the reality when, optimistically, Black Widow ultimately lands in theaters on November sixth.
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