On fanxsaltlake's second day, generations came together to enjoy fandoms.
Marvel star Xochitl Gomez, 16, and ‘Star Trek’s’ William Shatner, 91, appeared at the convention Friday.
Gomez — whose previous big role was in the short-lived Netflix reboot of “The Baby-Sitters Club” — said she didn’t know she was auditioning for Marvel, or that she would play America Chavez, until well into the testing process. She credited Victoria Alonzo, one of the top executives at“That’s a lot of trust, to put some girl in a big Marvel movie [who’s] going to be in almost the entire thing,” Gomez said.
In some ways, she said, being able to represent her community makes her nostalgic. “When my mom first put me in martial arts,” Gomez said, “she was like ‘OK, you’re going to do this because you never know: There could be a young Latina superhero.” On Friday, Shatner said he had two major memories of Salt Lake City. In one, he bought a knock-off Rembrandt sketch from someone downtown. In the other, he described how his life changed while he was in Salt Lake City.
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