25 More Actors with Roles in Both a Star Wars Production and a Property Based on Marvel Comics
1. Hannah John-Kamen
For Star Wars: First Order Officer (The Force Awakens)
For Marvel: Ava Starr/Ghost (Ant-Man and the Wasp)
What, you thought that previous list of Star Wars/Marvel actors was the end of it? Oh heavens, no. At the rate we’re going, there are going to be more cross-franchise actors running around out there than there are stars in that one galaxy that’s far, far away. Speaking of stars… Britain’s own Hannah John-Kamen has been seeing her own star rise in recent years thanks to appearances in 2018’s Tomb Raider, Ready Player One, and the Netflix mini-series The Stranger, where she plays the titular stranger. But everyone’s got to start somewhere, and her first credited film role is “First Order Officer” in The Force Awakens. “I got a call from my agent who said, ‘You’ve got a job in Star Wars,’” she said in 2021. “And I said, ‘Wow! Who am I playing?’ And [my agent] was like, ‘We’re gonna find out.’ So you don’t quite know what’s happening, and even on the day [of shooting], I didn’t get my sides until after breakfast. That’s how secretive it has to be.” Three years later, she played the mysterious Ghost in 2018’s Ant-Man and the Wasp (and future MCU installments). “Everyone was amazing, but Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas and Laurence Fishburne really were my idols growing up,” she said. “I grew up with a lot of their movies, so it was definitely an honor. It was an honor to share a space, a scene and a camera with them.”
2. Richard Armitage
For Star Wars: Naboo Fighter Pilot (The Phantom Menace)
For Marvel: Heinz Kruger (Captain America: The First Avenger)
When you look at their careers, Armitage has a lot in common with John-Kamen. They’re both British. They studied drama and dance in school. They co-starred in The Stranger. And they both know what it’s like to start an acting career with a small role in a heavily anticipated Star Wars sequel. Blink and you’ll miss Armitage in his uncredited role as a Naboo fighter pilot who can be spotted in the scene where Jar Jar Binks leads Amidala to his people. Twelve years later, Armitage played Kruger, a Hydra assassin whose actions ensure that Steve Rogers is the first and only super-soldier created by Dr. Erskine’s secret formula (which… not even on a napkin, Doctor? Tsk tsk). “I keep forgetting I was in Captain America,” Armitage once said. “Because at the time Marvel was just on my horizon and I forget to mention it when I talk to people, because Marvel is so huge and the Marvel Universe is so massive and so it’s probably good at the time that I didn’t acknowledge that, I just sort of got in there and played this role.”
3. Adria Arjona
For Star Wars: Bix Caleen (Andor)
For Marvel: Martine Bancroft (Morbius)
The alluring (and alliterative) Adria Arjona was raised in Mexico City and Miami before moving to New York to study at the Lee Strasbourg Theatre and Film Institute. So far, she’s proving the value of a getting a good education, with roles in such acclaimed series as True Detective, Good Omens, and Emerald City — and that’s before she plays the betrothed daughter of a frazzled Andy Garcia in an upcoming remake of Father of the Bride. Before she walks down that aisle, though, she said “I do” to appearing in the streaming series Andor as a mechanic/black market dealer who’s one of Andor’s few allies and in 2022’s Morbius as the scientist girlfriend and confidante to the tragic doctor-turned-whatever-you-do-don’t-call-him-a-bat-man. “I never worked with someone that completely transformed themselves,” said about her time working with Jared Leto on the set of Morbius. “I called him Doctor on set, I never called him Jared. He always called me Dr. Martine. I still have him saved on my phone as ‘Doctor.’ I should probably change that.”
4. Ebon Moss-Bachrach
For Star Wars: Arvel Skeen (Andor)
For Marvel: David Lieberman/Micro (The Punisher)
When Punisher fans heard that Netflix was putting together a series based on the skull-themed vigilante, they probably expected the role of David “Microchip” Lieberman — Frank’s tech support and procurement agent in the comics — to be played by someone resembling the heavyset character (someone like Wayne Knight, who played the part in 2008’s Punisher: War Zone). It’s a safe bet Moss-Bachrach was not what those fans had in mind. “I don’t want to reinvent Microchip,” he said. “I wasn’t interested in doing that, or kinda like turning it on its head, or doing some kind of crazy version of it. I wanted to play him as something that is recognizable as Microchip to Punisher fans, but also experiment and develop and flesh him out maybe a little bit more.” That he did by playing Microchip as a former NSA agent who assists Castle after faking his own death. It’s safe to assume there were no similar audience expectations for Skeen, a human whose first appearance in 2022’s Andor is as one of a team of thieves who carry out a dangerous mission on the planet Aldhani. “I‘m a rebel. It’s just me against everybody else.” Good to know.
5. Spencer Wilding
For Star Wars: Darth Vader (Rogue One)
For Marvel: Grannik (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance); Mean Guard (Guardians of the Galaxy)
You may not recognize Spencer Wilding by name, but I’m guessing the 6 ft.-6 in. Welsh actor and professional kickboxer would rather be known by his moves. Thanks to his size and skills at stunt work, his IMDb page reads like a fantasy geek’s dream resume, with parts in the Harry Potter franchise (werewolf/Knight of Hogwarts/Hagrid body double), Batman Begins (League of Shadows warrior), Game of Thrones (White Walker), Green Lantern (Kilowog motion-capture reference), and Doctor Who (various creatures, including “The Creature”). Given his knack for playing big and scary characters, little wonder he was tapped to fill David Prowse’s immense shoes in 2016’s Rogue One for that insanely awesome closed-quarters battle scene. “Probably one of the hardest things was when Dave Prowse contacted me on Twitter when the rumors started,” he said. “He congratulated me on getting the part of Darth Vader. [Because of the secrecy surrounding the project,] I said, ‘I’m sorry, Dave, I didn’t get the part.’ To say that to Darth Vader was pretty hard.” You know who wouldn’t have had a problem lying to Darth Vader? That mean guard in Guardians of the Galaxy. No, for real, he’s listed as “Mean Guard” in the end credits. How mean is he? He stole Star-Lord’s Walkman. That’s pretty mean in my book.
6. Rose Byrne
For Star Wars: Dormé (The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones)
For Marvel: Moira MacTaggert (X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Apocalypse)
One thing you tend to notice while looking at lists of actors in the Star Wars and Marvel universes is how so many of them hail from the British Isles. For a change of pace, Byrne hails from Australia, which is British…ish, I guess. After appearing in several Australian films and TV series, Byrne made her first appearance in a Hollywood film in 2002 as Dormé, the handmaiden to Natalie Portman’s Senator Padmé Amidala, in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. Since then, she’s divided her time between Hollywood and her homeland showing off her range in everything from historical dramas to films like 28 Days Later and Bridesmaids. So chances are being asked to play one of the more prominent supporting characters in the X-Men universe was right up her alley. “She’s a woman in a man’s world, she’s very feisty and ambitious — you know, she’s got a toughness about her which I liked,” she said about MacTaggert’s role as a 1960s-era CIA agent in First Class. “But she’s very progressive and believes that humans and mutants can co-exist peacefully, and they can help one another.”
7. Ken Leung
For Star Wars: Admiral Statura (The Force Awakens)
For Marvel: Quill (X-Men: The Last Stand); Karnak (Inhumans)
Leung’s acting career is a case study in how succeeding in show business is a combination of what you know and who you know. His breakout role was the villainous henchman Sang opposite Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in Brett Ratner’s Rush Hour in 1998; Ratner would later cast him as the mutant Quill when he was tapped to direct the third film in the original X-Men trilogy. Then, after working with writer/director J.J. Abrams on the hit TV series Lost, Leung would bring his acting chops to the role of Admiral Statura when Abrams went on to direct the seventh film in the Skywalker saga. So who does the star of Industry and The Night Shift have to thank (if that’s the right word) for getting him a gig as Karnak, the master strategist and martial artist whose unique power is to see the natural flaws in anything, in the ill-fated Inhumans mini-series? It’s hard to say — though one thing’s for sure, it doesn’t take the fault-finding powers of Karnak to see that project was doomed almost from the start. But on the bright side, at least Leung and the rest of the cast got to go to Hawaii to shoot their scenes. Hard to complain about that.
8. Jessica Henwick
For Star Wars: Jessika Pava (The Force Awakens)
For Marvel: Colleen Wing (Iron Fist, The Defenders)
In June 2009, it was announced that Henwick — a British-born actor who’s the child of an English father and a Singaporean-Chinese mother — had been cast as Bo for the BBC show Spirit Warriors, making her the first actress of East Asian descent to play the lead role in a British television series. Not content with breaking down just the one barrier, she went on to make her mark with roles in no less than four (so far) major franchises: as “Bug” in 2021’s The Matrix: Resurrections, Nymeria Sand in HBO’s Game of Thrones, Colleen Wing in Marvel’s Iron Fist and The Defenders, and the Resistance fighter pilot Jessika Pava in The Force Awakens. She was also offered the role of Xu Xialing in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings but turned it down in the hopes she could play Colleen again in a different MCU project. “Look, the way we left Iron Fist, spoiler alert, Colleen has the power and she’s in a really good place,” she said. “That character meant a lot to me and really changed my life. And I would love to revisit her one day, but it would really have to be the right place, and the right time, and the right script, but never say never.”
9. Donnie Yen
For Star Wars: Chirrut Îmwe (Rogue One)
For Marvel: Snowman (Blade II)
After landing his first starring role in the 1984 Hong Kong film Drunken Tai Chi, Yen became one of Hong Kong’s top action stars, and he’s widely credited for bringing mixed martial arts into mainstream Asian cinema by choreographing MMA in many of his films. By the turn of the century, his body of work attracted the interest of Hollywood, and he was invited to choreograph fight scenes in 2000’s Highlander: Endgame and 2002’s Blade II — impressing the directors of both projects so much that they invited him to make cameo appearances in both movies. For Blade II (also known as “the best Blade film”), that meant appearing as Snowman, a mute swordsman and member of the Bloodpack, an elite group of vampires that’s assembled to hunt our hero. Years later, he appeared on the side of good as a blind warrior and believer in the Force who assists our rebel heroes in their mission. “I never played a blind person before,” he said. “That was another reason why I wanted to do something completely different, challenging. I underestimated the difficulty of playing a blind character because it was hard. Having that contact lenses – it looks interesting – but having to take them off every three hours because it irritates your eyes and every ten minutes I needed drops. Very irritating.”
10. Peter Serafinowicz
For Star Wars: Darth Maul (voice) (The Phantom Menace)
For Marvel: Garthan Saal (Guardians of the Galaxy)
In truth, British actor/comedian Serafinowicz has led a pretty charmed life, with numerous roles in British film and television projects and appearances in The Tick, Rick and Morty, Parks and Recreation, John Wick: Chapter 2, among other productions that look like they were a lot of fun to be a part of. But you still have to feel for the guy when it comes to Darth Maul. Both Ray Park (who provided the evil Sith lord’s slick moves) and Serafinowicz were invited to reprise the character for his cameo appearance in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, with Serafinowicz even recording lines for the scene — but then things happened. “I went to Pinewood Studios and I spoke to [director] Ron Howard for about a half an hour about the character and what he had become, which was about 29 minutes more than I spoke to George Lucas about it 20 years ago,” Serafinowicz said in a 2019 interview. This led him to believe he would be in the final cut and he was excited to tell his kids he was in the film — but when the premiere came and went without him, he got an apologetic email saying they had decided to redub the lines with Sam Witwer, who at the time was voicing Darth Maul for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. “Which is fair enough,” Serafinowicz said, “but it was a bit disappointing.” At least he got the chance to call the Guardians of the Galaxy “a bunch of a-holes” in their own film. That must have felt good.
11. Richard E. Grant
For Star Wars: Allegiant General Enric Pryde (The Rise of Skywalker)
For Marvel: Classic Loki (Loki); Zander Rice (Logan)
Let’s face it, there’s a reason why Britain’s finest actors dominate the ranks of the Empire in the Star Wars films — nobody can pull off “imperious scowling” quite like the Brits, and Grant is proof of that. His General Pryde is all business when it comes to following his master’s orders, and his Zander Rice in Logan might as well be greeted with the sounds of a live studio audience hissing and booing his every appearance onscreen… but his “Classic Loki” is a whole different kettle of fish (or alligator, if you prefer). “I saw the costume design and I was very familiar with Jack Kirby’s original illustrations from the ’60s, so I thought, ‘Ah, this guy’s got muscles!’ As I had been born without any, I was finally going to get in a muscle suit,” he said about his turn as one of several Loki variants who pop up in the Disney+ series. “I got to Atlanta [to begin filming], and they said, ‘There’s no muscle suit! You’re just wearing this!’ I said, ‘But I look like Kermit the Frog!’ They said, ‘Nope, you’re not having a muscle suit.’ So I was very, very upset about that. [Laughs] Short-changed!”
12. Cailey Fleming
For Star Wars: Young Rey (The Force Awakens)
For Marvel: Young Sylvie (Loki)
This Mississippi native was only eight when she was cast as Young Rey in The Force Awakens; six years later, she appeared in a flashback as the younger version of a prominent character in Loki. In between those two eye-catching roles, this young actor has shown up in the TV series based on Preacher and The Walking Dead. Next up: Imaginary Friends, a John Krasinski film about a man who can see other people’s imaginary friends.
13-14. Bill Hader/Ben Schwartz
For Star Wars: BB-8 (voice) (The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, The Rise of Skywalker)
For Marvel: Hader: Angar the Screamer, Leader (M.O.D.O.K.); Schwartz: Lou Tarleton (M.O.D.O.K.)
Star Wars fans who stayed to watch the credits for The Force Awakens might have been surprised to see Hader and Schwartz both credited as “BB-8 Vocal Consultants” for the rolling little droid. The actor/comedians are no strangers to voice acting work (Schwartz has lent his pipes to Bojack Horseman, Bob’s Burgers, DuckTales, and two Sonic the Hedgehog films, while Hader has shown up in places like Inside Out, Finding Dory, The Simpsons, and South Park), so it was only natural for director J.J. Abrams to ask them for a favor. “I worked with him on [the NBC series] Undercovers, and we’ve collaborated before,” Schwartz said. “He got in touch and said, ‘Hey, I’m figuring out what BB-8 sounds like… Why don’t you come in and help me fiddle around and experiment?’” As Hader put it, that fiddling process was basically “J.J. f–king around with this sound effects app on his iPad that was attached to a talk box operated by me. It looked ridiculous but it made BB-8’s voice.” The two collided again in 2021’s M.O.D.O.K., the Hulu comedy starring one of Marvel’s goofiest-looking super-villains as a family man; Schwartz plays M.O.D.O.K.’s son while Hader joined other guest stars who lent their voices to various heroes and villains.
15. Emilia Clarke
For Star Wars: Qi’ra (Solo)
For Marvel: Unrevealed role (Secret Invasion)
That picture right there on the right is literally all that anyone outside Marvel knows about Clarke’s involvement in the upcoming Disney+ series that also features Samuel L. Jackson and a whole lot of Skrulls doing what Skrulls do best. When Clarke appeared on The Tonight Show earlier this year, she joked about the secrecy surrounding the project — “The first people I spoke to from Marvel were their security team” — but based on some of her past roles as (i.e., the Mother of Dragons and the Mother of John Connor), and the way she’s holding that gun in the trailer, it’s safe to assume her entry into the Marvel universe will be along those same badass lines. And then there’s Qi’ra, Clarke’s femme fatale in the film revealing Han Solo’s origin story, who shares some of the same qualities as Clarke’s other famous roles. That’s not a coincidence. “There were a lot of discussions that I had with the creators of the movie to make sure that there were certain things in place that I felt were important for her and for the Star Wars franchise to have a girl that was strong,” she said. “I get ‘you play a lot of strong women’ questions a lot and we’re just women. You can take strong out of the equation, do you know what I mean? It just is what we are, strength is within us as women.”
16. Alan Tudyk
For Star Wars: K-2SO (Rogue One)
For Marvel: “Redneck” (Deadpool 2); Alistair Krei (voice) (Big Hero 6); Arcade (voice) (M.O.D.O.K.)
Tudyk is no stranger to pop-culture sci-fi (Firefly, Dollhouse, V, Resident Alien), and he’s no stranger to voice acting (Wreck-It Ralph, Frozen, Harley Quinn, American Dad, many others), so his voicing of a snarky droid in Rogue One was almost inevitable. What wasn’t expected was his cameo (alongside a heavily disguised Matt Damon) as a “redneck” that Cable (played by Josh Brolin) runs into while time traveling in Deadpool 2. “I got a call from my agent who said ‘Hey, do you want to do this thing?'” he told Collider in 2021. “When I met Matt Damon — I didn’t know it was him. I couldn’t believe it was him. This guy came in, this guy, this heavyset guy, but then his voice, his voice gave him away… It was just a cool thing that the producer thought about.”
17. Jon Favreau
For Star Wars: Rio Durant (voice) (Solo); Paz Vizsla (voice) (The Mandalorian)
For Marvel: Harold “Happy” Hogan (Iron Man, Spider-Man: Homecoming, among other MCU films)
Hard to believe the guy from Swingers and Very Bad Things who went on to direct Elf is now a major player in both the Marvel and Star Wars universes, but life can be funny that way. After directing the first two Iron Man films (and getting executive producer credits for five more MCU films) — essentially kick-starting the MCU — Favreau then signed on to create and direct The Mandalorian, and he’s credited as creator and writer for the follow-up The Book of Boba Fett. And if that weren’t enough, he’s also gone outside both franchises to direct massive hits like The Jungle Book and The Lion King for Disney, as well as episodes of shows like The Office and Young Sheldon. Seems like a lot to juggle, so why add to the pile with acting gigs like his multiple appearances as Harold “Happy” Hogan in the MCU? “So I’m working on Lion King now,” he said in 2019, “and actually while I’m out, I go to [visual effects company] MPC after work and look at the stuff there, because they’re doing the visual effects [in London]. And then we’re prepping the Star Wars series [The Mandalorian] back in L.A. Actually, with all the time zones, it works out well. But when you have to be on set it’s tricky, so I have one of the producers who’s working on both the other projects with me, so I kind of get corralled around. The nice part about acting is I get to just focus on that when I’m on the set.”
18. Taika Waititi
For Star Wars: IG-11 (The Mandalorian)
For Marvel: Korg (Thor: Ragnarok, Thor: Love and Thunder, Avengers: Infinity War)
If there’s a club for directors who know what it’s like to work in both the Star Wars and Marvel universes as both directors and actors, then Favreau and Waititi would probably be the club’s president and treasurer, respectively. After the New Zealand native gained attention writing and directing films like Boy and What We Do in the Shadows, he signed on to direct Thor: Ragnarok (which featured the debut of Korg, his level-headed rock-alien alter ago) before moving over to The Mandalorian to direct the episode “Redemption” and voice the bounty hunter droid IG-11 (whose voice Waititi described as a cross between Siri and HAL 9000). “Star Wars is very different to Marvel style,” Waititi said at a press event during the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour in 2019. “They know that the tone of the first films really should be kind of adhered to. That’s what the fans like and you can’t really disrespect it, I guess is a nicer way of saying, ‘Can’t put too many jokes in.’ There’s a bit, definitely, my tone is in there, the dialogue and stuff like that.”
19. Clancy Brown
For Star Wars: Burg (The Mandalorian); Savage Opress (The Clone Wars); Ryder Azadi (Rebels)
For Marvel: Major Schoonover (Daredevil, The Punisher); various voice acting roles
Honestly, it might be faster to list all the voices Brown hasn’t done for the cartoons. Lex Luthor for Superman and Justice League, Mr. Krabs for Spongebob Squarepants, Mr. Freeze and Bane for The Batman, Sasquatch for The Incredible Hulk, several characters (George Stacy, Rhino and Ox) for The Spectacular Spider-Man, Odin in Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, and both Red Hulk and Taskmaster on Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. and the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon series… the list goes on. He’s also the fire demon Surtur in Thor: Ragnarok and appeared in the flesh in both Daredevil and The Punisher as Frank Castle’s former commanding officer. For The Mandalorian’s “The Prisoner,” Brown donned many pounds of makeup and prostheses to play the demonic-looking Burg, a mercenary who teams up with the Mandalorian and others to break into a prison. “That was legendary,” Brown once said in reference to the process it took to transform him into Burg. “I think we were nominated for an Emmy for that one. Did not win… I don’t think you’ll see me again on that [show]. (laughs) I’m not anxious to put that stuff back on.”
20. Erin Kellyman
For Star Wars: Enfys Nest (Solo)
For Marvel: Karli Morgenthau (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier)
In Solo, Kellyman’s Enfys Nest is a leader of a gang of pirates called the Cloud Riders who are supporters of the nascent Rebel Alliance; in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, she plays the leader of an anti-patriotism group fighting for open national borders. Is there something about rebels with a cause that attracts the young British actor to these roles? “I think it’s so important for women and young girls to see women in these bigger and more complicated roles,” she told Buzzfeed in 2021. “She’s relevant and she’s important, and what she’s fighting for is good. The way she’s going about it might be a bit questionable, but her route is from a good place and she’s pure. It was a lot of fun to play.”
21. David Tennant
For Star Wars: Huyang (The Clone Wars)
For Marvel: Kevin Thompson/Kilgrave (Jessica Jones)
Credit Clone Wars director Dave Feloni for snagging a former Doctor for his animated series. “As a fan that has the privilege of playing in the Star Wars galaxy, I am always on the lookout for others who appreciate, and would enjoy, an opportunity to go on an adventure in George’s galaxy far, far away,” he said. “When I heard the Doctor himself, David Tennant, was a fan of Star Wars I knew I had to find a way to get in contact with him to see if he would perform on The Clone Wars.” The result was Huyang, an ancient droid in the service of the Jedi Order whose sole task has been overseeing the construction of lightsabers. Similarly, Tennant’s vocal Marvel fandom landed him the role of the psychopathic Kilgrave, who has the power to command anyone to do his bidding. “To an extent, I can sympathize with Kilgrave, which always seems like a terrible thing to say, because he’s done extraordinarily ghastly things, and while I don’t condone his actions, I think I can grasp an understanding of why he’s ended up where he is,” he said. “Maybe that’s just because that’s my job and as an actor you’ve got to try to understand, at least, why the character you’re playing does the things that they do. You might not condone those actions, but you’ve got to try to at least begin the journey towards empathizing with them.”
22. Simu Liu
For Star Wars: Lah Zhima (Star Wars: Visions)
For Marvel: Xu Shang-Chi/Shaun (Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings)
In 2021, Lucasfilm released Star Wars: Visions, an original stories set in or inspired by the Star Wars universe. The nine animated shorts were produced by seven Japanese animation studios and released with both Japanese and English soundtracks. In “The Ninth Jedi,” Liu voices Lah Zhima, a sabersmith working for the Jedi before he’s captured by agents working for the Sith. “I’m not going to sugarcoat it; I definitely want to be in the Star Wars universe,” Liu said in 2020. “I’m a huge Star Wars fan; when I first came to Canada [from China], it was one of the first things I latched on to right away. I didn’t speak a lot of English, but just the visuals of Star Wars were so compelling, and it sucked me in right away.” If Liu does score himself a live-action role in a future Star Wars film or series, it’s easy to guess how his younger self would have felt seeing that. “I think it would have made me feel proud of where I came from,” Liu said in 2021 when asked how seeing an Asian superhero on the big screen might have affected his younger self. “I think it would have made me proud of my face, proud of my language, of my culture. And not having that meant that, you know, I kind of inherently knew that those things were ‘other.’ And those things weren’t desirable. And so, I grew up ashamed to be Asian. I just hope that kids watching this movie will be proud instead.”
23. Ray Stevenson
For Star Wars: Gar Saxon (The Clone Wars, Rebels); Unrevealed role (Ahsoka)
For Marvel: Volstagg (Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok); Punisher (Punisher: War Zone)
If someone gave Stevenson a chance to revisit either of his past two Marvel roles in an upcoming project (Frank Castle’s vengeful vigilante or Thor’s drinking/fighting buddy), I bet I know which one he wouldn’t pick. “I had to wear this vest that contained tubes pumping ice water on to my torso, otherwise my costume would have killed me,” he once said about getting suited up to play Volstagg. “First there was the big foam fat suit that went from my toes to my neck, then the costume on top of that, and then the big beard, then the wig, then I had to go and fight!” And then there’s this quote from a 2016 interview in which he was asked if he would like to play the Punisher again: “When I did the movie, I think the only thing it suffered from was that our references were from comic books that were already 10, 15 years old, and I would love nothing more than to continue and bring Frank back… but bring Frank back to the big screen.” In the meantime, he’ll have to make do with playing another tough guy for the small screen; in February 2022, it was announced the Stevenson was joining the cast of the next live-action Star Wars series centering on the popular Jedi knight played by Rosario Dawson in The Mandalorian.
24. Mark Hamill
For Star Wars: Luke Skywalker (A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Last Jedi, The Rise of Skywalker, The Mandalorian); Darth Bane (The Clone Wars)
For Marvel: The Hobgoblin (Spider-Man: TAS), among others
AKA the Main Man himself. Following his lead performance in the original Star Wars trilogy, Hamill returned to the kind of voice acting gigs that he done earlier in the career (Jeannie, The New Scooby Doo Movies) to carve himself a career as one of the more reliable voice actors in the animation business. While his work as the Joker in DC’s animated universe is probably what he’s best known for as a voice artist, he’s played a sizable number of characters from the comics; on the Marvel side alone, he’s the voice of the Hobgoblin in the 1990s Spider-Man animated series, the Gargoyle in 1996’s The Incredible Hulk, Maximus and Triton in Fantastic Four, Klaw in Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Red Skull in The Super Hero Squad Show, Arnim Zola in Avengers Assemble, and multiple characters in Ultimate Spider-Man. But he hasn’t given up live-action roles altogether, as fans of the most recent Star Wars trilogy can tell you; those films were supposed to be his final time in his Jedi robes until the Marvel movies convinced him to make an appearance in The Mandalorian. “When they said they were gonna use the de-aging process they used in the Marvel movies, I was just gobsmacked!” he said, referring to the same special-effects wizardry Marvel used to make actors like Michael Douglas and Samuel L. Jackson appear as their younger selves. “The more I thought about it, [the more I thought] ‘This is a really an opportunity that was completely unexpected, but something that almost was a responsibility.’ In other words, if they’re saying they want me to do this, how can I say no?”
25. Harrison Ford
For Star Wars: Han Solo (A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens)
For Marvel: Gen. Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (Captain America: New World Order)
They’re really doing this, aren’t they? In October 2022, rumors started to float around the internet that Ford was joining the Marvel universe. Soon after, it was confirmed the Star Wars and Indiana Jones legend will take over the role of General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross with his tenure starting in 2024’s Captain America: New World Order (he’ll replace William Hurt, who played Ross in several MCU films before his death earlier this year). Not much is being said about his involvement in the project — certainly not by the famously taciturn Ford — but his character could potentially serve as an ally or an enemy for Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson in this new chapter, even though the hero will already have his hands full with Tim Blake Nelson’s return as the Leader. That’s about all we know for now, but one thing’s for sure; whether he plays the character as a hero or a villain, if we do get to see Ford’s Ross in action up on the big screen there will be little question about who shoots first.
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