Maya Hawke and Camila Mendes to star in Netflix’s new LGBTQ+ dark comedy Do Revenge
gaytimes.co.ukMaya Hawke and Camila Mendes are set to star in Netflix’s new “delicious” LGBTQ+ dark comedy Do Revenge. Directed and co-written by Thor: Love and Thunder’s Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, the forthcoming film is described as a “subverted Hitchock-ian dark comedy featuring the scariest protagonists of all: teenage girls.” The film will follow Drea (Mendes), a “fallen it girl” whose sex tape gets leaked to the whole school by her boyfriend; and new student Eleanor (Hawke), an “alt girl” that was recently outed by a hateful bully who claimed she tried to kiss her.
After forming an unlikely friendship, Drea and Eleanor team up to get revenge on their tormentors. The movie also stars Austin Abrams as Max, Talia Ryder as Gabbi, Alish Boe as Tara, Rish Shah as Russ, Maia Reficco as Montana, Paris Berelc as Meghan, Jonathan Daviss as Elliot, Ava Capri as Clarissa, and Sophie Turner as Erica.
In an interview with Elle, Robinson opened up about Do Revenge and casting Hawke and Mendes in the film’s lead roles. “I will say, in Camila’s tape, I paused it at about maybe five seconds in, picked up the phone and called Peter Cron and [producer] Anthony Bregman and said, ‘We have Drea’ It’s Camila,” she revealed.
Robinson went on to say that the same sentiment was shared when she cast Hawke as Eleanor. However, due to the 24-year-old’s filming obligations for Stranger Things, her involvement almost didn’t come to fruition. “It had to be Maya.
