Fast X got here out at first of the summer season, and it was…sort of a multitude within the worst approach. However a real vibrant spot inside that mess is Jason Momoa as Dante Reyes, the son of Quick 5’s Hernan Reyes who’s come searching for revenge in opposition to Group Toretto. He’s foolish, he’s threatening, he’s sort of a homosexual techno Joker, and Momoa is clearly having a blast taking part in what’s in all probability the very best villain in a collection crammed largely with duds.
Over the course of the final film, Dante successfully shattered the Toretto clan in a number of totally different instructions, and lots of of their potential allies (like Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw or Charlize Theron’s Cipher) are scattered or snarled in their very own troubles. With Dante returning as the primary villain for Quick XI, director Louis Leterrier guarantees that he’ll turn into a good better risk in the course of the sequel. Speaking to Empire Magazine, he teased that they’d “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 could’ve been simple for the actor to play the position as “darkish and indignant,” he counseled Momoa’s adaptability and willingness to experiment. “It was attention-grabbing to play with the duality and the push-pull inside the character, the place inside the identical sentence he’s laughing and feels the ache of dropping all the things. Solely an actor like Jason might have achieved 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 on Momoa and what route he seems like taking the character.
What different actually evil, hateable issues can Dante do after kidnapping Dom’s son, and making an attempt to explode a number of of his associates? We’ll discover out every time Quick XI releases within the close to future.
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