Quick X got here out at the beginning of the summer season, and it was…type of a multitude within the worst method. However a real vivid spot inside that mess is Jason Momoa as Dante Reyes, the son of Quick 5’s Hernan Reyes who’s come searching for revenge towards Workforce Toretto. He’s foolish, he’s threatening, he’s type of a homosexual techno Joker, and Momoa is clearly having a blast enjoying what’s in all probability the most effective villain in a sequence stuffed largely with duds.
Over the course of the final film, Dante successfully shattered the Toretto clan in a number of completely different instructions, and lots of of their potential allies (like Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw or Charlize Theron’s Cipher) are scattered or twisted up in their very own troubles. With Dante returning as the primary villain for Quick XI, director Louis Leterrier guarantees that he’ll develop into a fair better menace in the course of the sequel. Speaking to Empire Journal, he teased that they might “do one thing else” with Dante and his gleeful carnage for the subsequent film. “It’s by no means twice the identical with Jason,” he continued. “Dante will really evolve. Let’s discover one thing we haven’t seen earlier than.”
Leterrier credited Momoa for why Dante works so nicely, saying the unique pitch for the character was only a man who was “fueled by vengeance.” Whereas it will’ve been simple for the actor to play the position as “darkish and offended,” he recommended Momoa’s adaptability and willingness to experiment. “It was attention-grabbing to play with the duality and the push-pull throughout the character, the place throughout the similar sentence he’s laughing and feels the ache of dropping all the things. Solely an actor like Jason may have finished that.” What occurs subsequent with the character in Quick XI—and within the eventual second spinoff film for Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs—will equally rely upon Momoa and what route he looks like taking the character.
What different actually evil, hateable issues can Dante do after kidnapping Dom’s son, and attempting to explode a number of of his buddies? We’ll discover out at any time when Quick XI releases within the close to future.
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