Along with several other actors, Inde Navarrette was announced as one of the main cast members of Marvel Studios' X-Men reboot during D23 earlier this year. The Obsession star's casting wasn't a major surprise, but her character was.
Shortly before D23, Navarrette revealed that she had met with director Jake Schreier, setting speculation into overdrive by stating, "Mystique has always been super cool."
Fans obviously assumed that Navarrette must be in talks to play Raven Darkholme, but the actress recently revealed that she knew she'd been cast as Rogue at the time.
“I did know, but that wasn't a lie,” she told Collider. "The way that character is, it's so complicated, and it's so nuanced when you have the originality of the story. Her and Rogue are also very similar, you know what I mean, if you've read the comics. So I was not lying. I was dropping hints, and I was like, 'If anybody's picking up what I'm putting down?', but nobody did."
Navarrette has already given fans a tease of the Southern accent she'll adopt to play Rogue, but what about her look?
Rumor has it that the team will wear comic-accurate costumes in the movie, but some recent photos of the actress sporting a new blonde hairstyle and bleached brows have led to speculation that the fan-favourite mutant may be given a fairly drastic overhaul.
As far as we're aware, X-Men is scheduled to begin filming early next year, but it still seems a little soon for Navarrette to begin getting ready for the role by altering her appearance. Even if her new look does have something to do with the reboot, she may have simply lightened her hair in preparation for the stylists to work their magic.
Or, it could be a wig! Celebs often go incognito to avoid being recognized, especially when visiting a theme park or convention.
Whatever the case may be, we'd be surprised if Marvel strayed too far away from Rogue's signature white-streaked hairstyle from the comics.
After years of wondering what Marvel Studios had in store for the Children of the Atom, the X-Men reboot is finally starting to take shape, with Schreier set to helm and writers Sonny Lee Sung Jin (Beef) and Joanna Calo (The Bear) currently working on a new draft of Michael Lesslie's script.
More recently, the main cast of the long-awaited movie was announced at D23. Joining Navarrette will be Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, alongside Kit Connor as Cyclops, Christopher Abbott as Professor Charles Xavier, Samara Weaving as Emma Frost, Maya Boyd as Storm, and Adam Driver as Nathan Milbury/Mr. Sinister.
We'd later learn that Gen V and Scream 7 star Asa Germann will play Angel, and The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping star Ben Wang is in talks to play Iceman. Beast is also expected to round out the original team of five from the comics, and a recent rumor claimed A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms star Peter Claffey has landed the role of the MCU's Hank McCoy.