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Hero Moment-Comic-Con 2017: Iwan Rheon and Anson Mount, Learning to be “Inhuman”

A new franchise made its debut at Comic-Con and it comes with the Marvel logo attached to it. For the fans of the comic named Inhumans, there’s not much to explain but for the ones with less knowledge about that world, former Game of Thrones villain Iwan Rheon and the star of Hell on Wheels, Anson Mount, stopped by the HFPA lounge at Comic-Con to give us some basic tips: ‘I play Black Bolt’, Mount said. ‘He is the functional king of the Inhumans, which is an offshoot race of homo sapiens that are not exactly human that left the earth 20,000 years ago, and relocated on the dark side of the moon because they feared humanity. Black Bolt’s power is his voice, it’s powerful enough that if he were to scream it would shatter a planet. And he has no control over it. So by choice, he doesn’t speak’.

Rheon added: ‘I play Maximus who is the younger brother of the king, Black Bolt. When the Inhumans are 14 they all go through a process called Terra Genesis which is when their powers develop and that defines their role in the caste system that the Inhumans live in. Maximus had the misfortune of becoming human through his Terra Genesis, which is the worst possible outcome. So, therefore, in theory, he would have gone to the lower caste and worked in the mines like all the people who get rubbish powers. But because he’s the brother of the king he’s allowed to be part of the royal family. So he’s a kind of an outcast of their society, which is very difficult for him. He’s literally the lowest of the low’. Inhumans will debut its first two episodes in IMAX screens across the country on September 1st, and then will move to its regular TV home, ABC, starting September 26.