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Tenoch Huerta Mejía played Namor, based on the Mayan God Kukulkan in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
“Becoming an actor was as far-fetched as it was for me to become a professional American football player from Mexico,” Huerta said in Spanish by phone from a moving car in Mexico City. “You can’t dream with what you can’t see. I didn’t see people with my skin color onscreen.” Huerta admitted that he had often suffered from impostor syndrome due to the hostility that brown-skinned actors face in the Mexican entertainment industry run by Whitexicans.
The Mexican star, 41, from the city of Ecatepec just outside the Mexican capital, landed the role of Namor, the flying ruler of the fictional underwater kingdom of Talokan, in the superhero epic “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
“Becoming an actor was as far-fetched as it was for me to become a professional American football player from Mexico,” Huerta said in Spanish by phone from a moving car in Mexico City. “You can’t dream with what you can’t see. I didn’t see people with my skin color onscreen.” Huerta admitted that he had often suffered from impostor syndrome due to the hostility that brown-skinned actors face in the Mexican entertainment industry run by Whitexicans.
The Mexican star, 41, from the city of Ecatepec just outside the Mexican capital, landed the role of Namor, the flying ruler of the fictional underwater kingdom of Talokan, in the superhero epic “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
