A rich boy from Brazil who burns, and who cannot touch anybody without finding out how much.
Roberto da Costa is a Brazilian mutant who manipulates solar energy. Henry Zaga plays him as the confident one, which is a performance the character is giving as well.
He has the same secret as the others, and it involves somebody he loved, and the film holds it back until it needs it.
Show detailsTwo actors, ten years apart in the wrong direction
Adan Canto played Sunspot in X-Men: Days of Future Past in 2014, as one of the surviving mutants in the ruined future, and Henry Zaga plays him in The New Mutants as a teenager in the present. Wikipedia keeps them in one entry, so this catalogue does too.
Sunspot is Afro-Brazilian in the comics, and Zaga’s casting was criticised on that basis when the film was announced.