Alaqua Cox wasn’t even a full week into filming “Hawkeye,” her first professional acting job, when she found out that she was getting her own Marvel series. Naturally, she was overwhelmed. But now, five months after “Echo” premiered on Disney+ and Hulu, Cox is still wrapping her head around her career upturn and what it meant.
“Sometimes I sit and I’m like, Whoa, I still honestly can’t believe that I got my own MCU show,” Cox told TheWrap. “And I made history. And we all made history.”
It was in “Hawkeye” that Cox made her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Maya Lopez (a.k.a.