Speaking to Empire for the magazine's November 2022 issue ( now on sale), Huerta admitted that he wasn't even sure what the role was going to be due to a technical glitch on his initial call with the director. Talk about being thrown into the deep end!

'I never drowned before, so that's not a lie.'

If you're going to be playing the mighty ruler of an underwater kingdom in a big studio blockbuster, then you should at least know how to doggy paddle, right? Not exactly! When filmmaker Ryan Coogler offered Tenoch Huerta the once-in-a-lifetime role of Namor the Sub-Mariner in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the actor didn't know how to swim.Ĭoogler - who returned to direct and co-write the sequel - asked about his skills in the water, to which Huerta provided a clever response rooted in semantics: 'I've never drowned before,' he cheekily recalled during an interview for Entertainment Weekly's big preview article on the hotly-anticipated Marvel Cinematic Universe film. 'I never lie!' added the veteran of Narcos and The Forever Purge.

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