{"id":74336,"date":"2025-05-15T17:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=74336"},"modified":"2025-05-31T17:13:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:13:28","slug":"dominique-thorne-is-set-to-return-as-her-character-riri-williams-in-the-new-marvel-series-ironheart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/dominique-thorne-is-set-to-return-as-her-character-riri-williams-in-the-new-marvel-series-ironheart\/74336\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominique Thorne is set to return as her character, Riri Williams, in the new Marvel series, Ironheart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominique Thorne is set to reprise her role as Riri Williams in the upcoming Marvel series <em>Ironheart<\/em>. Fans first saw her in <em>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever<\/em>, where Riri was introduced as a brilliant inventor tracked down by Shuri and Okoye after creating a device that can detect vibranium through any material.<\/p>\n<p>In the new series, Thorne returns as the MCU shifts its focus to Chicago, where Riri is busy crafting advanced iron suits. The official synopsis reveals that she is a teenage genius who creates the most advanced armor since Iron Man.<\/p>\n<p>However, viewers shouldn\u2019t expect the series to cover Riri\u2019s origin story from <em>Wakanda Forever<\/em>, as Thorne explained to <em>The Wrap<\/em> that the movie dropped fans right into the middle of her journey.<\/p>\n<p>She elaborated, \u201cThat experience takes her totally out of her world, where she felt comfortable, and into several new worlds she\u2019s unfamiliar with.\u201d Thorne added, \u201cShe has to reckon with the consequences of her own ambition, which created the circumstances that everyone, including herself, now faces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trailer opens with a tense scene: Riri trapped in an elevator where a voice warns her that the air will run out in about three minutes. When she asks what\u2019s happening, the voice tells her it\u2019s an interview \u2014 and that she\u2019ll suffocate unless she breaks a device on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Thorne, the series stars Anthony Ramos, Manny Montana, Shea Coulie, Sacha Baron Cohen, Lyric Ross, and others.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ironheart<\/em> will be available for streaming on Disney+ starting June 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominique Thorne is set to reprise her role as Riri Williams in the upcoming Marvel series Ironheart. Fans first saw\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":74337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[28409],"class_list":["post-74336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-dominique-thorne"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}