How do you go from being an actor nobody's ever heard of to being the buzz of the Internet in a matter of minutes, all without a single movie credit to your name? Easy, get cast as DC Comics superhero Cyborg with a solo film in the works. That's what happened with Broadway actor Ray Fisher, who signed on for the role some months ago to little fanfare, probably because people didn't know whether to believe it was true that an unknown would be cast in such a prominent position in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. A few days ago we got confirmation that it was real, along with a slew of other big announcements from Warner Bros., and now Fisher is talking about the whirlwind experience of playing a prominent member of the Justice League. He tells EW...
“I didn’t know the extent to which DC and WB had planned on taking my
character. When I signed on, I just wanted to be part of this world. But that
specific information, I found out then and there. I didn’t think I’d be
getting my own stand-alone film.”So if he didn't know anything then, can he reveal anything about what's in store? While admitting he thinks fans will be in for a "hell of a treat", he didn't spill the details on much else except to say that he's already met most of his Justice League co-stars.
"I met everyone in the Justice League except Henry Cavill and Ezra Miller. It was surreal. You get this idea of going to work on a Hollywood set as being really stressful and nerve-wracking. But it blew that stereotype away. If they did have stressful times, it wasn’t while I was there."
Fisher had recently added some much-needed muscle for a role on stage as Muhammad Ali, and it probably will serve him well as the robotic Victor Stone aka Cyborg. The actor has already wrapped filming on his scenes in Batman v Superman, and will then appear in both of Zack Snyder's Justice League movies before the solo Cyborg movie arrives on April 3rd 2020.
Hey look, whatever one thinks of Warner Bros. approach to building their superhero universe, we have to give it up to them for beating Marvel to the punch. Not only are they giving us the first major female-led comic book movie with Wonder Woman, but also the first solo film for an African-American since Blade. These are the things fans have been begging for Marvel to do, and Warner Bros. got there first. Smart move.
