The Ironheart Mark 1 Suit's Weight Wasn't A Problem For Wakanda Forever's Dominique Thorne

In an interview with Variety, Dominique Thorne explained that the Ironheart suit was not created in post-production with CGI, but was actually a practical costume that she had to wear. Apparently, the filmmakers waited until the end of filming to inform her of how much the suit weighed, and it turned out to be 52.5 pounds, which is exactly half of Thorne's body weight.

Despite the heavy suit, Thorne had a fairly easy time controlling it. "To get to feel the weight of that on my body and just understand how it moves — you almost want to say it's clunky, but when you have it on, you realize, 'Oh, this is actually such a smart build, like all my joints are free so I have so much movement. But also, this is heavy as hell. And it flies? Whoa!'" Thorne explained that it took her about two weeks to get used to moving around in the suit, but it certainly gave her a workout.

But have the Iron Man suits always been practical instead of CGI like Riri's Ironheart suit in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"? Understandably, Tony's nanotech suit in "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Avengers: Endgame" isn't real, but the original Iron Man suit from the first movie actually is.