Prey star Amber Midthunder opened up about the Predator prequel's success. 'I don’t think I thought about what would happen after the movie came out, but I know that I wasn’t expecting this at all, and I’m so grateful.'
Prey star Amber Midthunder shares her reaction to the success of the movie. Prey is the seventh overall film in the franchise that began with 1987's Predator and spread to include three sequels and two crossover films with the Xenomorphs from the Alien franchise. Prey, which was directed by 10 Cloverfield Lane's Dan Trachtenberg, premiered exclusively on Hulu earlier this summer on August 5.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Although there is an ensemble cast in Prey, which includes Dakota Beavers, Julian Black Antelope, and Blackstone star Michelle Thrush, Midthunder is far and away the performer who carries the movie on her back. She plays Naru, a young Comanche woman living in the Great Plains in 1719 who wants to be a hunter like her older brother. She is given the chance to prove herself when a Predator arrives on the scene, a threat only she properly recognizes.
To have some of the interactions I’ve had with people, which have been really meaningful and really beautiful, and really, really moving, there’s nothing that could top that. There’s no amount of chart breaking or anything that could top what that means to me. But then, you step back and look at all those other things, like the number one release and the high numbers on Rotten Tomatoes, and it literally feels like we’re living in a dream.
The success of Prey will likely send Midthunder's career into the stratosphere. Before properly bursting onto the film scene with her lead role in the prequel, she had been steadily accruing television credits in series with strong name recognition, including Longmire, Roswell, New Mexico, and the Dan Stevens Marvel series Legion. She's already become a hot upcoming actor, and should they opt to make a Prey 2 featuring the return of Naru, that will only help her star burn brighter.
In the meantime, Midthunder has clearly remained entirely down-to-earth about the success of Prey. While she obviously acknowledges how exciting it is that the movie is doing well financially, she is still focused on the reaction of the people who watch and love it. This is wholly in keeping with her biggest concern while making the movie, which was making sure it properly represented and respected America's indigenous people, and certainly speaks to her selflessness as a performer.
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