Gal Gadot stars as Rachel Stone in a new high-tech espionage thriller.
Every superspy needs a super team, and Rachel Stone is no exception. Played by Gal Gadot, the unassuming computer tech is actually an undercover operative for the Charter — a global spy network that’s kept secret even from other spy networks. Using high-tech artificial intelligence that keeps them a step ahead of their enemies, the Charter is seemingly unstoppable. But when Stone infiltrates an MI6 team that’s being taunted by mysterious ace hacker Keya Dhawan (Alia Bhatt), she’ll need all of her skills to navigate the deadly world of espionage that’s about to confront her. Stone is as cool and canny as they come, but even she needs a little help from her friends. “She really enjoys working with them,” Gadot told Netflix in June. “They are almost family.”
Read on to meet Stone’s family — and her foes. Heart of Stone hits Netflix Aug. 11.
Gal Gadot as RACHEL STONE
ABOUT THE CHARACTER
The Israeli actor already played a superhero in Wonder Woman. For Heart of Stone, Gadot wanted to bring herself back down to Earth. “It was really important to me that Rachel be a character who can fight, but I also wanted her to be able to use her brain, intuition and emotions,” she told Netflix in June. “She doesn’t just run in, guns blazing. She thinks about how she is affecting people and situations.”
For director Tom Harper, that more thoughtful quality distinguishes Stone from your Bonds or Bournes. “There is a deep care and compassion for people as the driving force of her actions,” Harper said last month. “It often feels that there’s one character acting in an almost God-like way, saving the world but yet disregarding the humans around them. This is a bit different, it has a bit more of a humanistic approach.”
PREVIOUSLY IN
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman 1984, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Death on the Nile, Date Night
Jamie Dornan as PARKER
ABOUT THE CHARACTER
Dornan plays Parker, the leader of Stone’s MI6 team. A skilled agent in his own right, at first Parker chuckles at the seemingly unprepared Stone. Soon, of course, she manages to earn his respect. “He has an idealistic way of how the world should be, but not in the way an audience might originally think,” Dornan told Netflix in June.
Of course, behind the scenes, Gadot herself had no trouble earning Dornan’s respect. “She’s like a rock star, and holds these movies together so well with so much elegance and strength,” Dornan said. It’s tough to resist a real life action hero.
PREVIOUSLY IN
Belfast, Barb & Star Go to Vista del Mar, Fifty Shades of Grey, A Private War, Robin Hood, Once Upon a Time, The Fall
Alia Bhatt as KEYA DHAWAN
ABOUT THE CHARACTER
Bollywood superstar Bhatt takes on her first English-language role as Keya Dhawan, a mysterious hacker who’s out to steal the “Heart,” the Charter’s state-of-the-art artificial intelligence. “If you own the heart, you own the world. And clearly she’s here to disrupt a couple of things,” Bhatt told Tudum in June.
For Bhatt the film was an opportunity to step out of her comfort zone, but she was surprised at how close her experience was to her previous work in Hindi blockbusters like Raazi. “Genuinely there’s nothing different in terms of the work ethic, the involvement in the work, and the idea that this whole massive team has to come together to make this movie and live up to one vision,” Bhatt said. “For me it’s totally similar and in that sense feels extremely comfortable because it’s just like home.”
PREVIOUSLY IN
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva, Highway, Raazi, Gully Boy, Udta Punjab, Kapoor & Sons
Matthias Schweighöfer as JACK OF HEARTS
ABOUT THE CHARACTER
Schweighöfer’s “Jack of Hearts” is the Charter’s tech specialist, a genius who works closely with the artificial intelligence at the center of their operations. “I had known Matthias from Army of Thieves, and he’s just so vibrant,” Harper said in June. “He’s got enough energy and humor to keep a film crew happy and laughing for months!”
To prepare for operating the Heart’s digital interface, Schweighöfer worked with a movement coach who helped design the way he would interact with the device. “We tried to create a language for how to use the Heart, breaking it down into small parts, like a dictionary,” said Schweighöfer earlier this year. “How to scroll forward and backward, highlight, go back in time, open a new screen — getting it to the point that it looked like I could actually operate it.”
PREVIOUSLY IN
Valkyrie, Oppenheimer, The Red Baron, What a Man, Hinterland, Resistance, 100 Dinge
Source :Netflix
