Netflix’s newest assassin thriller film,The Mother,brandishes the ferocity of a mother’s instinct, but with a twist and a gun. The streaming platform has since released a trailer and now, per arelease from Netflix, has a release date set for the film. Rather appropriately chosen, the action flick will premiere on May 12, just in time for Mother’s Day.
The Motheris the latest project in lead actress Jennifer Lopez’s ever-growing archive of multi-genre work. The film’s premise focuses on Jennifer’s character, an ex-assassin living in complete, frigid isolation, leading a remote existence in the woods to move on from her dangerous past life. But, like anyone who’s lived with a perpetual target on their back, she still trains daily should the worst happen. In a veryJohn Wick-esque manner, however, her quiet attempt at a normal life gets viciously uprooted when she finds out that a gang of her former enemies has kidnaped her daughter. Despite having done everything possible to keep her daughter’s existence an absolute secret, the threat drives her out of hiding to find and rescue her daughter from the thugs who’d likely kill her out of revenge.
Jennifer Lopez, whose character is still unnamed, stars alongside Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale), who appears in the trailer to be a villain sent to kill her, Lucy Paez (Silencio) as her daughter, as well as Jesse Garcia (Narcos), Omari Hardwick (Pieces of Her), and others. The film is directed by Niki Caro (Mulan), with writers Andrea Berloff, Peter Craig, and Misha Green.
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Jennifer Lopez, the Singing and Acting Chameleon
The gritty, thrill-packed filmThe Mothersees Jennifer Lopez step once more into one of the many genres she’s well-diversified herself into in her many years as an actress. While still seemingly most identified by pop culture as a singer and stage performer, Lopez first started with acting. Her breakout performance in the biographical dramaSelena(1997) launched her acting career and made her the first Hispanic actress to earn over $1 million in salary on a film.
With the subsequent release of the action horror filmAnaconda(1997) and crime comedyOut of Sight(1998), she officially became Hollywood’s highest-paid Hispanic actress. She continued to flex her talents by releasing her first successful pop album in 1999, which also helped launch the Latin pop genre movement. In the coming years, she’d continue to star in more and more films of all varieties, from psychological horrors likeThe Cell(2000)to romantic comedieslikeMaid in Manhattan(2002) andMonster-in-law(2005) and other action flicks likeParker(2013), which saw her opposite action movie fiend Jason Statham.
With multiple record music singles under her belt and an ongoing film and producing career, Lopez has had a nonstop influence on pop culture and has since been given the “triple threat entertainer” moniker, receiving an actual award for such an achievement back in 2014. She’s considered the most impactful Latin entertainer of all time, having broken numerous barriers within the entertainment industry. The official teaser forThe Mothercan be found below.
