Here, the intent isn't homicide but humiliation: two high school students whose lives were shattered by schemers contrive to trade missions of revenge so that there won't be any footprints leading back to the perpetrators. Do Revenge landed on Netflix on September 16. It's a compendium of devices, references, and (sometimes tediously) self-deprecating jokes that seems meant to let you know that the filmmakers know that you know what they're up to.
Netflix's Do Revenge is the teenage drama we've all been waiting for, audiences have been going wild for Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke as they get their own back in the dark comedy. Netflix's Do Revenge Cast & Where You've Seen Them Before: From Camila Mendes To Maya Hawke. There are so few adults around that when a relative, teacher or administrator shows up to push the story along, it feels like a disruption of normalcy. She's an assimilated Mexican American who lives in a small house that she's ashamed of. Talia Ryder as Gabbi. One good way to write a convincing mean kid in a high school movie is to make the smart and calculating in their meanness. 21 September 2022, 15:43 | Updated: 21 September 2022, 15:45. Something went try again later. The impressive cast boasts many huge stars from the likes of Riverdale, Stranger Things, 13 Reasons Why, Euphoria and more. Now streaming on: The vengeance-driven friendship comedy "Do Revenge" is to the 1980s and '90s high school movie as the "Scream" series was to the post-"Halloween" slasher picture. Girls creator Lena Dunham and The Breakfast Club star Molly Ringwald are among several…. Which do revenge character are you assessment. Riverdale's Camila Mendes stars as Drea, who seeks revenge on her ex-boyfriend after he leaks an explicit video of her. Sarah Michelle Gellar, aka Buffy in the '90s and early '00s hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, makes a couple cameos in Do Revenge as the Rosehill Country Day school headmaster. But when it came to designing the popular boy who would serve as the film's main antagonist, she was mindful of not giving into the classic push-you-into-a-locker high school bully trope.
That means there are certain aspect that every one of them must contain or risk alienating the audience, such as a makeover montage; a theatrically styled soul-baring monologue about trauma; and a series of heel-turns and face-turns that keep the audience on its toes. It could've been shorter and delivered the same story. The characters are constructs who are so aware of themselves as constructs (and the plot, too) that there's really no reason why we should feel for them, but we do, thanks to the lead performances, the direction, and the kidding/not kidding vibe of the entire production. The actor just turned 26 on September 2. Characters who want revenge. Eleanor seeks revenge on Carissa Jones, who outed her and told everyone that she tried to forcefully kiss her. Following Drea's breakup from Max, Rish Shah's character, Russ, is introduced as her possible new love interest. On June 29, she turned 28.
Drea and Eleanor are the best of friends until suddenly they aren't. She's also starred in Netflix hits The Perfect Date and Dangerous Lies. At 25 years old, Alisha is not too much older than her Do Revenge character. Maya Hawke of Stranger Things fame stars opposite Camila as Eleanor, a transfer student at Rosehill. One of the coolest and most ruthlessly efficient elements of the Top Gun: Maverick script…. Here Are All The Ways You Can Listen To Capital. Sarah has appeared in countless classic flicks over the years, from her roles in Cruel Intentions, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Scooby-Doo, I Know What You Did Last Summer and many more. Max denies it, but once senior year begins, he reminds everyone of the heroine's shame to secure his own position as the institution's most visible and influential student. Camila Mendes stars as Drea in Do Revenge as the main character alongside Maya Hawke. Tara, Drea's bestie, is portrayed by 13 Reasons Why star Alisha Boe. You may recognise Camila from a number of roles including her well-known portrayal of Veronica Lodge in Riverdale.
In an effort to restore justice without getting caught, they decide to enact each other's revenge on their respective targets. Main Image: Jonathan Daviss as Elliot, Austin Abrams as Max, and Alisha Boe as Tara in Do Revenge courtesy of Netflix. Seriously, it's an all-star cast! But she and her co-writer Celeste Ballard didn't want the character of Max to be that stereotypical type of mean boy. People do terrible things to each other in this movie, but at least a few of them have the decency to feel bad about it. Andy Serkis, the actor who lent his voice and likeness to the character Gollum in…. Everything Drea has achieved melts away, and she's left broken and mortified. Played by Paris Berelc, Meghan is the editor-in-chief of The Thorn. There are even cameos from celebs such as Games of Thrones' Sophie Turner and Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sarah Michelle Gellar. Cinematographer Brian Burgoyne and editor Lori Ball conspire with the director to keep the movie constantly winding its way forward while allowing for stylish grace notes, such as an Andersonian perfectly-symmetrical establishing shot or a voluptuous needle-drop that uses most—and in at least one case, all—of a song.