An iconic collaboration. Netflix’s movie Do Revenge brings viewers in with its fascinating plot — and its star-studded solid.
Before the film was launched in September 2022, director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson weighed in on how the epic casting got here collectively.
“We joke that they are, like, the young Hollywood Avengers,” the screenwriter advised Elle two months prior. “They call themselves The Revengers, which we love. They just are all really talented. And they were the best people for these parts.”
Do Revenge explores the occasions that happen after fashionable woman Drea (Camila Mendes) types a reference to switch scholar Eleanor (Maya Hawke). Drea desires to get again at her boyfriend for leaking her intercourse tape, whereas Eleanor desires revenge on a woman who outed her. The twosome determine to assist each other out by in search of vengeance on one different’s bullies.
Robinson and cowriter Celeste Ballard didn’t have any particular actors in thoughts as they had been bringing their main duo to life. “I will say, in Camila’s tape, I paused it at about maybe five seconds in, picked up the phone and called [producers] Peter Cron and Anthony Bregman and said, ‘We have Drea.’ It’s Camila,” she recalled. “I literally didn’t even finish. I watched her say, like, four lines and I was like, ‘And that’s it.’ And I started crying.”
The writing companions bumped into some points when making an attempt to carry Hawke aboard for the position of Eleanor.
“It had to be Maya. And so, the movie was supposed to take place in Los Angeles. We moved it and shot it in Atlanta so we could shoot it at the same time as Stranger Things. And I rewrote it and reset it in Miami,” the Thor: Love and Thunder author defined about working round Hawke’s schedule. “They were so perfect that we legit moved the production.”
Robinson continued: “Because if we waited for Maya after Stranger Things, we would’ve lost Cami. And if we had Cami in L.A., we wouldn’t have Maya. I was like, ‘Nope, it has to be both of them.’ So we moved the whole movie six weeks before production.”
The Florida native additionally praised Sophie Turner for her hilarious shock look in the satirical comedy. “She’s so funny, she really went for it, she committed like no other, and to me, what a dream,” Robinson added. “I never thought she would say yes to this and she did. And I’m so grateful to have her screaming at Camila Mendes. Not to toot my own horn, but that’s iconic.”
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