Ben Winchell & Ana Villafane On ‘Max Steel’ [VIDEO EXCLUSIVE]

Ben Winchell and Ana Villafane are bringing a lesser-known superhero from the comic book world to the big screen with Max Steel, set for release next fall. Winchell plays Max Steel, a unique superhero who is actually two people (Max and Steel) joined as one. Max is a common teenager going through his everyday struggles while Steel is his alien partner. “What makes them unique and what makes it different from every other superhero I feel has been out there, is if Max didn’t have Steel, Max wouldn’t be a superhero,” said Winchell in an exclusive interview with uInterview at San Diego Comic-Con 2014. “Max is just a kid who has this energy running through him, that if he didn’t have Steel there with him he would just explode and die.”

Villafane plays Sofia, a girl from Max’s new school who befriends Max and assists him through his struggles as Max Steel. “She finds him mysterious, she thinks that there’s something more to him and she wants to find out what that might be,” Villafane told uInterview. “So she instigates this relationship to start, and this friendship which ends up benefitting him a lot as he goes through his adventure of becoming Max Steel.”