Brigitte Nielsen, Hollywood’s original Red Sonja, had a literal presence on the new film.
Actress Wallis Day, who plays Dark Annisia in the upcoming reboot, shares with Entertainment Weekly out of San Diego Comic-Con that Nielsen came to their set. “I got to meet her,” Day says.
When asked what that was like, she replies, “No comment.” And now all we’re thinking about is whether she has a cameo in the movie or not. Regardless, Robert Sheehan, who plays Dragan, jokes about seeing Nielsen “hovering around, eating all the catering,” while Day adds, “I think she had an amazing time. We were just talking Red Sonja. She’s an amazing woman.”
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Matilda Lutz in ‘Red Sonja’
Nielsen began her acting career costarring alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1985’s Red Sonja, a swords-and-sorcery epic based on the comic character. In the new movie, coming to theaters on Aug. 15 and followed by a digital home release on Aug. 29, Red Sonja is forced to become a gladiator in Dragan’s empire. She must fight her way out and rally an army to reclaim her freedom.
Matilda Lutz follows in Nielsen’s footsteps as the new Red Sonja, though neither she nor Sheehan got to meet Nielsen yet.
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Sheehan teases Dragan as “this big, evil, baddie, emperor fella who’s trying to recreate the world in his own image. There’s a big, flaring ego that goes along with that plan.” When U.S. President Donald Trump’s name comes up as a potential comparison, he says, “The ego monster…. Yeah, basically drew a lot from the speeches of Donald Trump and the latest Trump flu. Trump flu 2.0.”
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