Last week saw a flurry of information on the third Wolverine spin-off Logan , culminating in a spine-tingling first trailer , Empire pressed Mangold on who exactly the mysterious girl in the trailer was – but he stayed tight-lipped. Now it looks like we have confirmation: she is in fact the character known as ‘ X-23 ’. Logan’s official Instagram account, the enigmatically-named @wponx (as in, Weapon X) , posted an image of Dafne Keane , the actress who plays the character, with the caption “ Laura ”. In the comics, X23 is a girl named Laura Kinney, and the clone-daughter of Logan from the Weapon X program hoping to replicate Wolverine’s regenerative powers and super-strength. She is the 23rd attempt to make such a clone, hence the name. She is a relatively new character, first appearing in 2004, and has since appeared as part of the X-Force team. Mangold heavily hinted that would be the case, telling us last week: “I think I will just let speculation run rampant about that. I th