One of the biggest changes between the comics and the on-screen adaptation of The New Mutants will be a romance between Danielle Moonstar/Mirage and Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane. According to the stars who play these characters, Blu Hunt and Maisie Williams, the romance just makes sense for their characters.

Variety asked Williams if she knew her character would be in an LGBTQ relationship. Williams replied, "I knew in the comics, the two characters Dani and Rahne had a telepathic connection. When I was speaking with [director] Josh [Boone], he was like, 'We’re going to amp that up into a romantic relationship' — which I thought made a lot of sense anyway. If you could actually read someone’s mind, I think that’s kind of what love is — being able to detect someone’s body language and understand how they’re feeling and try to make them feel better, even if you’re in a social setting. If these two characters do have a telepathic connection, I think that is kind of synonymous with love."

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Williams added, "I think it’s really important to have a relationship like this at the forefront of a superhero movie or any kind of action movie. I love that a relationship like that is normalized in a film of this scale. I don’t think it’s even labeled at all, and I don’t think the girls ever even ask each other out. They just fall in love when they first meet each other."

Blu Hunt told TooFab that she didn't feel any "pressure" to play Dani as an LGBTQ woman on the big screen. She said, "That aspect, it didn't feel, I didn't feel the pressure of that as much because it just felt so natural and so organic for me." She continued, "I have dated girls and it just felt cool. I just got to explore that part of myself in this movie. I never felt like I was taking a role that didn't belong to me."

"It felt really powerful to play," she added. "It felt really powerful to play a female character who was not connected to the men in the movie at all, other than just being their friend. And that was really, really, really cool."

In the original New Mutants comics, Dani and Rahne have a telepathic connection that occurs only when Rahne is in her wolf form. This allows for a deep connection between the girls. In the movie, however, this connection is translated into something far more romantic.

Directed and co-written by Josh Boone, The New Mutants stars Maisie Williams as Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane, Anya Taylor-Joy as Illyana Rasputin/Magik, Charlie Heaton as Sam Guthrie/Cannonball, Henry Zaga as Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, Blu Hunt as Danielle Moonstar/Mirage and Alice Braga as Dr. Cecilia Reyes. The film arrives in theaters Aug. 28.

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