Actress Susan Sarandon will play villain Victoria Kord in DC's 'Blue Beetle' movie, but who is Victoria? Here's what to know about her character.
The increasing hype surrounding DC's upcoming Blue Beetle film is real, with enthusiasts excited to see the nature of Jaime Reyes jump from page to screen. The persona used to be first offered right through DC's Infinite Crisis arc in 2006 earlier than integrating him into mainstream comics. In 2023, the nature won his personal miniseries titled Blue Beetle: Graduation Day as a lead-up to the movie.
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One of the characters present in Blue Beetle is the villainous Victoria Kord (Susan Sarandon), a brand new character created in the Graduation Day arc. Who is Victoria Kord in the comics? And how is she connected again to the Blue Beetle mythos? Keep reading for everything you need to understand.
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Who is Victoria Kord in DC Comics? She's related to this character.
If you thought the title Victoria Kord sounded acquainted, we are right there with you. The character was presented in the 2023 arc Blue Beetle: Graduation Day as the older sister of inventor Ted Kord, who comics fans may acknowledge as the former Blue Beetle. In the comics, Ted introduces Jaime and Victoria, who runs Kord Industries, whilst Ted is assisting fellow hero Booster Gold.
In the Blue Beetle film, alternatively, it kind of feels that Victoria is taking up a solidly adversarial function. The information of Susan Sarandon's casting used to be first announced exclusively via The Wrap in April 2022. By November 2022, she was once on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon teasing her persona's motivations, and the film will likely be in Spanish with English subtitles.
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Speaking to Collider in January 2023, Susan Sarandon, who plays Victoria, gushed about her villainous persona. "My God, to be in a comic book and to be the bad guy, that was great. And I had great outfits, and I wanted to be a little bit more androgynous, but that scared them. So I'm a little bit more gentle, but that was really a fun thing too."
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She sings the praises of the solid and crew, pronouncing, "That young director, Angel [Manuel Soto], was fabulous. And I mean, we're gushing a lot. It sounds phony, but really, I love the enormity of it. His whole family is Mexican and they're all Mexican actors, and my henchman is Native American. So it was pretty unusual. It's the first superhero movie that stars a Latino, so that's pretty special, and he's great. The kid's great."
Not a lot is known about how Victoria's personality will impact Jaime, but in the trailer, fans can see Victoria telling him that the scarab "doesn't belong to you." Long-time comics fanatics will recall, the scarab doesn't actually belong to Victoria either, as it is alien technology — but we haven't any doubt the movie will divulge it all in time.
Blue Beetle hits theaters on Aug. 18, 2023.
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