Road House 2024: Daniela Melchior praises diversity in remake of 1980s cult classic

Between his hit motion pictures Dirty Dancing in 1987 and Ghost in 1990, Patrick Swayze stared in the 1989 cult classic Road House, alongside Cocktail actress Kelly Lynch.

Now, 35 years later, the film is being re-imagined with actor Jake Gyllenhaal in the lead reverse Fast X starlet Daniela Melchior.

The newest model of the film – a few former UFC fighter who takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse and uncovers a criminal offense ring – encompasses a extra various solid than the unique, one thing Melchior liked.

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“I was really happy to feel that as well in this project, because we all came from different parts of the world, with different backgrounds, with different inputs as actors and as people,” the Portuguese actress advised 9Honey Celebrity in London.

“It’s amazing, I love it. And yeah, I hope it really grows [in Hollywood] in that way.”

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The Guardians of the Galaxy actress says she needed to convey a recent take to this function to keep away from comparisons to Lynch’s model of the character, who’s a physician on the native hospital who turns into the love curiosity.

“In my everyday life, I don’t have expectations, or I try to not have expectations, for anything or anyone,” Melchior tells 9Honey Celebrity.

“That scares me in a way, that the audience could have expectations for my character, but we don’t even have the same name.

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“She [Lynch] was enjoying Elizabeth, I’m enjoying Ellie, so it is a very completely different tackle it, it is a completely different character, I’d say. It’s a extra up to date one.

“And I totally respect what she did in the movie, beautifully, so I didn’t even try to get close for sure with my Ellie.”

Melchior seems in Road House alongside Gyllenhaal and Connor McGregor however has beforehand counted the likes of Vin Diesel, John Cena, Chris Pratt and Henry Golding as her co-stars.

However, the last word for her co-star bingo card could be Meryl Streep: “because why not, right?!”

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Melchior says she’d additionally prefer to work once more together with her The Suicide Squad co-star, Aussie Margot Robbie, for one very distinctive motive – a tattoo.

“She did all those tattoos on the first version of Suicide Squad… In The Suicide Squad, she didn’t do any tattoos.

“At that point, really, I solely had a tiny one which I’ve carried out like a number of years in the past. I simply acquired the braveness to do a number of extra a number of weeks in the past.

“So yeah, but the next time that I work with her, definitely I’m gonna ask her to do more, to do me one.”

Road House is streaming worldwide on Prime Video now.

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