Deadline reports that Samara Weaving has been selected to play Emma Frost in Marvel Studios’ forthcoming X-Men film, according to sources familiar with the casting. The reported appointment would be a significant early step in assembling the reboot’s mutant team, following Disney’s 2019 acquisition of 20th Century Fox’s Marvel characters; Marvel declined to comment.

Weaving reportedly secured the part after director Jake Schreier and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige considered several candidates, with final tests taking place shortly after 4 July. Emma Frost is a telepathic mutant who has shifted from villain to prominent X-Men member in the comics, and was previously played by January Jones in X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past; Lee Sung Jin and Joanna Calo are writing the new film.