X-Men Fans Are Rediscovering That Samara Weaving Is a Huge Gamer After Emma Frost Casting

X-Men fans were much hyped than ever aft Samara Weaving was formed arsenic Emma Frost, but they got adjacent much geeked aft discovering that she’s a precise superior gamer.

Samara Weaving is your caller Emma Frost. Beyond her astonishing resemblance to the glamorous mutant (that look paper could not beryllium much cleanable for Emma), she’s besides a loveable goofball and a monolithic gamer, thing that came backmost to airy erstwhile quality of her casting deed the internet.

Back successful March, Weaving spoke with IGN alongside chap Ready oregon Not 2 prima Kathryn Newton astir their shared emotion for video games, revealing a wide assortment of favorites that included Assassin’s Creed, Red Dead Redemption 2, Hogwarts Legacy, and adjacent Mortal Kombat.

“I similar an unfastened world,” she told us, going connected to accidental that her Mortal Kombat main is Kitana.

“I’m truly bully astatine it,” she said of the warring crippled series. (Speaking of which, her friend, Jessica McNamee, plays Sonya Blade successful the caller movies).

And successful June 2026, Weaving gushed astir her gaming habits successful an occurrence of Polygon’s Shelf Quest, revealing that she hauls her PS5 with her everyplace she goes.

“All my jobs, I battalion my PlayStation 5 successful my suitcase, which is insane. It takes up fractional the suitcase and nary 1 tin assistance it and they each hatred me. But I bring it to each AirBnB and edifice that I enactment at,” she told the outlet portion lasting among the crowded shelves of Videogamesnewyork.

In the interview, she revealed that her parents didn’t let her to play video games increasing up, saying she often played astatine friends’ houses erstwhile she could. She besides reiterated her emotion of unfastened satellite games, citing each the exploration and free-range roaming they allow.

But erstwhile it comes to warring games, Weaving says they conscionable ‘speak’ to her, saying she finds large occurrence rather easy successful some Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter.

“[Mortal Kombat] and Street Fighter, surprisingly, [I] was truly good, truly quick. I tin bushed a batch of radical astatine Mortal Kombat. I don’t cognize why. It speaks to me, particularly the chick with the fans — Kitana — I’m truly bully astatine Kitana. She’s my gal. She’s my fave.”

These interviews person sprung backmost up into the nationalist consciousness, prompting nary extremity of excitement and jokes arsenic fans hold anxiously for much quality connected the X-Men reboot film.

“Imagine you’re getting your ass kicked by a Kitana, and it's her,” 1 wrote connected X.

“She's rapidly climbing up the ladder of my fav actresses!” different said.

“Maybe she plays Marvel Rivals and plays Emma Frost,” yet different speculated.

While we can’t cognize that for definite conscionable yet, we bash person a fewer much details astir the upcoming X-Men reboot film, directed by Jake Schreier. A fig of different roles are presently undergoing casting, which reportedly began backmost successful May, leaving fans adjacent much hopeful for spot-on casting quality successful the adjacent future.

With D23 acceptable for August 14-16, there’s a bully accidental Marvel volition uncover what it’s got up its sleeves, particularly since it was truthful tight-lipped during its Hall H sheet astatine San Diego Comic-Con successful July.

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Virginia (she/her) is IGN’s News Editor. With 10 years of acquisition reporting connected games and entertainment, she’s got a storied inheritance successful the warring crippled community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her connected Twitter astatine @TheeMissGlaze.