JASON MOMOA ROCKS
New Film Sweet Girl = Revenge + Isabela Merced
Don’t mess with Jason Momoa’s Ray Cooper when he’s hell-bent on revenge. While Netflix hasn’t released much on Sweet Girl, we know that the film will center on Cooper’s revenge. After bad guys kill his wife, Cooper has to juggle looking after their daughter Rachel, played by Isabela Merced (Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Transformers: The Last Knight), and finding the guys who flipped his world upside down.
From the short clip Netflix released and the behind-the-scenes photos, it looks like Cooper trains his daughter to be in fighting shape to either be ready for the guys who killed her mother or so that Momoa can have some peace of mind that she can defend herself. There’s a photo of Rachel holding a camera at what looks like her school, and she seems concerned about something. Maybe she’s taking pictures of clues to her mother’s killers. Anything is possible. It also looks like there’s a big scene in the streets. We see helicopters and Cooper running towards something in another photo. At the end of the clip, there may also be a fight on a subway car.
Sweet Girl will be Momoa’s fourth project with Brian Andrew Mendoza. They worked together on 2014’s Road to Paloma, 2018’s Braven, and the Netflix series Frontier. Mendoza is a producer, and Sweet Girl is his feature directorial debut. Unlike their previous projects, Momoa’s character will not live in the wilderness as an outlaw. Although Cooper and Rachel seem like vigilantes, are they taking the law into their own hands? Sweet Girl is similar to their other projects as it showcases Momoa’s expert fighting skills. Has Momoa ever starred in a film where he’s not showing off those crazy muscles? Momoa and Merced quizzed each other; Momoa revealed his favorite stunt in the movie happened when he chokes a guy with a plastic bag. He said he liked it because it was recycling at its finest. “I’m trying to save the world here,” he said.
Sweet Girl also stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (Magnificent Seven), Raza Jaffrey (Homeland), Adria Arjona (Good Omens), Justin Bartha (National Treasure), Lex Scott Davis (The First Purge), and Marisa Tomei (Spider-Man). Filming began and finished in 2019. It was shot in Pittsburgh. The film is written by Philip Eisner (Event Horizon), Gregg Hurwitz, a veteran thriller writer, and Will Staples (Without Remorse), so we are in safe hands. You really can’t go wrong with anything featuring Jason Momoa, though. It’s fascinating to watch him beat up people. We’ll also get to see if the father-daughter duo gets revenge in the end when Sweet Girl drops on Netflix beginning August 20, 2021. Mark it on your calendars.
