‘Fast X’ Brings Back [SPOILERS] in Not One, But Two Major Cameos
variety.comAngelique Jackson SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers are ahead for “Fast X,” which is now playing in theaters. “You believe in ghosts?” Agent Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes) asks at the end of 2011’s “Fast Five.” She’s just presented agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) with a surveillance photo of Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), who was believed dead after a horrific crash in the fourth film, 2009’s “Fast & Furious.” With one mid-credits coda, the “Fast” franchise established that if you don’t see a body, no one is really dead. (In fact, Rodriguez recently revealed that didn’t know about the third-act twist until she saw “Fast Five” in theaters. “I’m in Paris.
I’m like, ‘Oh, hell no,'” she said in Feb. at the “Fast X” trailer launch event, explaining that she called producer and star Vin Diesel right away. “I find out by going to the movies, Vin?” she asked him.) “Fast X,” directed by Louis Leterrier, already promised to be the biggest installment yet with a cast that boasts longtime Fast Family members Diesel, Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, John Cena, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Scott Eastwood and Nathalie Emmanuel, as well as Jason Statham, Helen Mirren and Charlize Theron as the super villain Cipher.
Newcomers to the action-packed arena include Alan Ritchson (as Aimes, the new no-nonsense head of the Agency, who thinks the “family” is just “a cult with cars”), Brie Larson (Tess, the headstrong daughter of Kurt Russell’s Mr.
Nobody), Rita Moreno (who plays Dom’s grandmother, Abuelita Toretto) and Daniela Melchior (Isabel, a street racer with her own family ties).
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