A Month Before Filming, ‘Do Revenge’ Director Moved Production to Atlanta to Keep Maya Hawke in the Cast
thewrap.comantagonist Eleanor in the film.In the Netflix teen dark comedy, Hawke costars as Eleanor alongside Camila Mendes, who plays the other half of the deceitful duo as Drea Torres, the fallen “it” girl. “We cast the movie in 2020.
Cami and Maya both signed on, and then ‘Stranger Things’ pushed, which means that in our window where we were making the movie we technically lost Maya,” Robinson said in a recent zoom interview with TheWrap. “If we had waited for Maya to complete ‘Stranger Things,’ we would have lost Cami and Cami and I both were quite devastated.”Robinson felt so strongly that these two actresses were right for the roles in her new film that when the opportunity came to keep them both in the production, she jumped at the chance.“I was actually in Australia shooting ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’, and I got a call from Peter Cron and Anthony Bregman who produced the movie, [saying] ‘Hey, so what do you think about moving the whole thing to Atlanta and getting Maya back?’” Robinson continued. “And I started crying and in two seconds I was like, ‘Yes, yes.’ And that was it.
And then we moved the production six weeks before shooting.”In the film, Maya Hawke’s Eleanor and Camila Mendes’ Drea team up to take down each other’s enemies in a swapped revenge scheme.
Drea loses her status as popular girl in Rosehill Country Day School’s elite social group when her ex-boyfriend Max (Austin Abrams) leaks a risky video she makes meant only for his eyes.
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