Variety’s video feature The Take, host Clayton Davis mentioned the upcoming Marvel film Eternals, featuring gay superhero Phastos, played by Brian Tyree Henry, with Haaz Sleiman as his husband.
Stewart noted, “I don’t know much about the storyline in this one, but I’m glad there’s gay people in it.”Davis brought up the new Superman, Jon Kent, as well; it was recently revealed that the character is bisexual.
He asked Stewart what she’d say to people who think “this is not how superheroes should be portrayed.”“I would say you’ve had your time,” she said. “If you’re happier and more comfortable looking in the rearview mirror, that is where we’ll leave you, brah.