The Fast family is getting even bigger.
Who are these new characters? How does Jason Momoa’s villain tie back to the events of Fast Five? Is Brie Larson’s Tess friend or foe? And who is Rita Moreno playing? Let’s break down all the new additions to Dom’s ever-growing family.
Jason Momoa as Dante
Aquaman star Jason Momoa is undoubtedly the biggest addition to the ensemble cast this time around. Unsurprisingly, Momoa is playing the latest villain to threaten the Toretto clan. Equally unsurprising, he’s a character with close ties to another villain from earlier in the series. It really is all about family in this universe.
Momoa’s character is named Dante, and he’s the son of Joaquim de Almeida’s Fast Five character Hernan Reyes. As the trailer reminds us, Dom and Brian stole Reyes’ money by driving a bank vault through the streets of Rio de Janeiro (causing what we can only imagine was hundreds of millions of dollars in damage). That act robbed Dante of both his family fortune and his father, and it seems he’s been plotting against Dom ever since.
“He’s very sadistic and androgynous and he’s a bit of a peacock,” Momoa told Variety. “He’s got a lot of issues, this guy. He’s definitely got some daddy issues.”
It’s probably safe to assume he’s colluding with Charlize Theron’s hacker villain Cipher, as we briefly see her in the trailer, too. Though director Louis Leterrier teased that Cipher may have finally found the one partner too much even for her to handle.
“They are bad news, but one is more afraid than the other,” Leterrier told Empire Online. “One is worse news than the other.”
Fast X is where Dante’s plans come to fruition. He doesn’t want to kill Dom, but make him suffer in the same way Dante has suffered for the past 12 years. Given the ominous way the trailer is framed and the fact that the series is rapidly nearing its endpoint, there’s a good chance at least one of our heroes will meet their end against Dante. After all, we need a good cliffhanger leading into Fast 11.
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