The anti-'Avengers': In indie gem 'Fast Color,' a powerful new superhero story is born
LOS ANGELES - In the age of Marvel and DC domination, "Fast Color" is a very different and long overdue kind of superhero movie.
Just released in theaters ahead of the impending "Avengers: Endgame," director Julia Hart's indie darling is a revolutionary take on superpowered beings with the power to change the world: not Hulks who smash, but women who create.
"There's no Spandex and there are no capes," said Gugu Mbatha-Raw, smiling. She stars as Ruth, reuniting in Los Angeles with Hart and 12-year-old Saniyya Sidney, her on-screen daughter, on a recent April afternoon.
"It's about the energy and the power that we already have inside of us, and I really appreciated that," she said. "The world is so saturated with a certain type of superhero, and that's great. But there was something for me
