Of course, it can’t hurt to have Chris Hemsworth’s wife as the protagonist. After all, Hemsworth has a four-image deal with the streamer, and while this film is out, he is an executive producer and makes a cameo as an employee of the burglar shop in an electronics store. , which sees how carnage develops in a matrix. of large 4K screens.
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“I think that’s an important factor, of course,” Reilly says with refreshing honesty. “I mean, it’s Hollywood. Netflix is in Chris Hemsworth’s business, and obviously they want to do the right thing for him. But you’re not going to make Chris’ wife’s movie just to keep him happy. They’re nice. , but they are not so nice “.
Pataky, born in Madrid, has lived in Australia for eight years and starred in the Netflix series Tidelands, which was not very well received, but has generally focused on raising the couple’s three children while her husband he was going to work with his hammer.
She has always wanted to take action, she says. “I watched Indiana Jones movies with my dad and wanted to be the female version. I’ve always been a guy, very competitive with the guys, trying to be stronger, doing better than them.”
At the age of 45, she admits, “Maybe I could have come earlier in my life, so it would be easier to recover,” but she was excited to be able to challenge herself, to transform her body, and especially to do her own acrobatics.
For all the bullets, kicks, bearings and dodging, the most impressive feat, by far, is that Pataky swings with one hand along a set of monkey bars at the bottom of the platform floating on the sea (in fact, filmed in a former ABC studio). and Artarmon).
“Netflix is in Chris Hemsworth’s business, but you’re not going to make Chris’ wife’s movie just to keep him happy.”
Matthew Reilly
“That was just me,” Pataky says with justified pride. “We had three shots, one very good, and then Matt said, ‘We have to do a fourth.’ .
Hemsworth was filming Thor’s latest adventure at the same time as Pataky was Interceptor. From time to time they would see each other at the gym, and then again at night, when they would spend some lovely time with the kids before falling into piles of mutual exhaustion.
“Sharing this with him was a really good experience for both of us,” he says. “I’ve seen how hard it works and how hard it is, but it was good to have the same experience of working at the same time.”
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Interceptor is a popcorn movie, and Reilly has already written the sequel, but there is flesh in these bones of action, with arguments about white supremacy and sexual harassment. “When you get a little older you’re not just writing an action story, you want to give it something more,” he says.
For Pataky, getting to play a woman who has had a life experience, not all positive, was a big draw. His character isn’t a superhero, but he’s super resilient, both mentally and physically, and that mattered.
“I feel like I can be an inspiration to women,” she says. “There are a lot of 60-year-old men making action movies; why can’t women do it? I wanted to show that we can really do it at any age, if you are ready to do it. You can do the same with any man. “
Interceptor is now on Netflix.
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