Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
So he had to drop out of Furiosa due to a scheduling conflict. So what? We’re still quite confident that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who’d earned a place in genre fans’ hearts prior to 2021 thanks to HBO’s Watchmen, will have no trouble seeing his star continue to rise. Earlier this year the charismatic actor turned in a commanding performance as an artist who embraces the horrors of the past a little too much in Candyman; before 2022 gets here, he’ll be a new incarnation of Morpheus in The Matrix Resurrections. Next year he’ll star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and, presumably, some major explosions in Michael Bay’s Ambulance, as well as a little DC sequel titled Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. It’s prime Abdul-Mateen time and we are glad to be living through it.
