🍿 Tenoch Huerta dove into 'Black Panther' head-first

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Dec 20 2022

Imperius Rex!

From his first moment in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, it was clear that Namor was here to stay. Played by Tenoch Huerta, Marvel’s version of DC’s Aquaman (who actually came first) chews up the scenery and goes toe-to-toe with both Angela Bassett’s Queen Ramonda and Letitia Wright’s Shuri without so much as a flinch.

In the coming years, Namor may very well conquer the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, but today, Huerta is taking over Inverse as our Scene Stealer of the year. In an exclusive interview, the Mexican actor talks about learning to swim, brutal workouts, and changing stereotypes. Check out the full interview — and original photos — in the latest issue of Inverse Daily.

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Scene Stealer

Entertainment

Tenoch Huerta dove into Black Panther head-first

Tenoch Huerta didn’t know how to swim.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Mexican actor secretly signed with Marvel Studios to play the role of Namor the Sub-Mariner. In Marvel’s comic book universe, Namor is the arrogant, ferocious ruler of the underwater kingdom Atlantis (think Aquaman with the brain of a Bond villain). He rises to the surface in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ryan Coogler’s sequel to the world-shaking epic of 2018 that made box office history and crisscrossing arms an iconic pose.

Apple

Gear

Apple killed the iPod, but modders are giving it a second life

When it comes to consuming media, and particularly music, the biggest driver of change is often storage technology.

Being able to store larger, higher quality files; store more of them; store them in any order you choose; and consume them completely privately, changes everything about how we interact with media. Do not underestimate the power of a big hard drive.

Apple discontinued its iPod line earlier this year. Now only modders and devoted fans are keeping Apple’s second most important product alive.

Inverse Awards

Gaming

The 10 biggest RPGs of 2022

Role-playing games have always been a centerpiece of the video game industry, and 2022 was still a landmark year. From turn-based titles and action RPGs to MMOs and monster collecting, 2022 quite literally had something for everyone.

With dozens of titles released each month, especially in the fall season, it can be hard to keep track. Still, there are a handful of RPGs that either dominated the conversation or were so acclaimed that they simply cannot be overlooked.

See the full list

STICKY SCIENCE

Innovation

'Cellular glue' could help scientists play LEGO with your body's building blocks

We can think of cells as the building blocks of living things. Every organ in your body, from your brain to your gut to your skin, is made up of highly specialized cells. But most cells don’t just float freely throughout your body — they’re bound together by proteins to form complex structures.

Now, with the help of molecular engineering, researchers have developed a way to program which types of cells stick to one another, and how strongly.

They hope that this “cellular glue” will one day be used to treat a wide range of diseases, including some of the most difficult-to-treat conditions, like nerve damage and cancer. Their results were recently published in the journal Nature.

Detox

Mind and Body

Prescription poop could be the future of medicine

Insulin, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, poop. You likely don’t think of the latter as medicinal, but there are good reasons to think that’s about to change.

Last month, the FDA approved a fecal-based treatment for the first time. The drug, Rebyota, is approved for people with reoccurring bacterial infections of Clostridium difficile. C. diff. is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in the United States each year.

Despite the recent, first-time approval of the poop drug, doctors have been using fecal microbial transplants — in which stool from a donor is transplanted to change the microbial community in a recipient’s colon — for years. This approval is likely only the start of a promising future for prescription poop.

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Movies

Entertainment

First Oppenheimer trailer proves it's the biopic Christopher Nolan was born to make

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

Upon witnessing the Trinity atomic bomb test in 1945, American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer thought of the words from the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hinduism’s holy texts. The bomb was deployed months later in Japan, ending World War II but ushering in an age of nuclear proliferation.

Now, filmmaker Christopher Nolan takes on the complicated Father of the Atomic Bomb in his latest feature, Oppenheimer, with regular Nolan collaborator Cillian Murphy playing the title figure. The robust ensemble also includes Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, David Dastmalchian, and Gary Oldman, among others.

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