Michelle Rodriguez He is about to turn 45 years old and continues to rock like the first day. From its debut in ‘Girlfight’ to its passage through the now ‘Avatar’ franchise, through titles such as ‘Resident Evil’, ‘Machete’, the splendid ‘Widows’ or the recent ‘Dungeons & Dragons: honor among thieves’, the Texan He has shown a special talent for bringing tough and intense characters to the big screen.
However, among all of them, Letty stands out, the eternal secondary of the ‘Fast & Furious’ saga who, little by little, was gaining weight until becoming an indispensable element of it. And watch out, because his experience distributing slaps in fiction seems to have helped a lot to shoot a convulsive ‘Fast X’ that, remember, ran out of director shortly after starting his principal photography phase.
You don’t need a director when you have family
As he told in an interview with Vanity Fair, after the departure of Justin Lin, she and Charlize Theron managed to shoot their combat sequence with only the second unit director as manager. According to his account, they had to keep the production alive until Louis Leterrier arrived to take the controls.
“I can only tell you, without second words, that Charlize is a monster. We shot our fight scene [en Fast X] no director. Man, just like that, we nailed it. We are here, we don’t need [un director], let’s do it. Second unit director, come here. So we kept the machine running until Louie came along and took over. And she is a consummate professional. Her work ethic is on another level.”
In addition, Rodríguez compared the experience of shooting action made in hollywood in ‘Fast X’ with his time in the celebrated ‘Dungeons & Dragons’; two radically different logistics and organizational models.
“You have to understand this: these guys are from Eastern Europe, they are used to working with [el productor] Avi Lerner, and those films shot in Romania and Bulgaria are serious. The security mechanisms are different, the rules are different. They don’t treat you like a baby, you’re doing dangerous things. We just rotated different specialists; there was constant movement on set for five months straight. His work ethic is phenomenal, but it was pretty scary. And sometimes you just think, ‘Hey, wait a minute, should we be doing this?’ [Risas]. But we did it, no one was hurt and we’re super proud.”
During the conversation it was inevitable to allude to the struggle that the actress had with the team from the ‘Fast’ saga to shape Letty in a way that would not reduce her to a simple Dom Toretto vase. Rodríguez has always been an advocate of strong and complex female characters.and when it comes to ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, I couldn’t have been more pleased.
“It was easy! I mean, I’ve only been through this three times in my life. In Karyn Kusama’s Girlfight I didn’t have to change a word of the script. In Steve McQueen’s Widows, we had a conversation beforehand and he shaped the character accordingly. And Jim Cameron with Trudy Chacon on Avatar didn’t have to change a thing. Sometimes you meet people who just get it. And John and Jonathan are a perfect example with this script, I didn’t have a problem with anything. They just get people. strong women, and it’s something you understand, or you don’t. I’m grateful for that.”
This year we can enjoy Michelle Rodríguez twiceboth in ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’, which is already in theaters, and in ‘Fast X’, which will hit our theaters on May 19.
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