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Gaming What Sadie Sink’s Jean Grey In ‘Brand New Day’ Reveals About The MCU’s X-Men By Paul Tassi ,
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. Follow Author Jul 31, 2026, 11:32am EDT --:-- / --:-- This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more . This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more . At a certain point, following any press for the movie at all, it seemed pretty obvious who Sadie Sink would be playing in Spider-Man: Brand New Day , despite it being pitched as a secret. A famous red-haired actress with telepathic powers whose role was being kept secret ahead of a publicly announced introduction of the X-Men in the MCU. No, she wasn’t going to be Punisher sidekick Rachel Cole-Alves. Rather, as we now can confirm, Sink is Jean Grey. A spoiler, perhaps, but if you’re looking up Jean Grey online here, you should already know that.
So, what does Sadie Sink being introduced to the MCU tell us about the X-Men? Some we may have guessed; other aspects would be new information.
There is probably more to extrapolate, but I believe that’s a lot at baseline. What else do you think it implies?
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