Now that Cinemax’s Transporter series is building its cast, they’ve added a few well known names to the fray of the ensemble of the series that is based on the film franchise of the same name.
Delphine Chanéac, whom Americans were introduced to in the slightly uncomfortable yet well written sci fi movie Splice as the genetic creature of focus, will be joining the Transporter cast as the mysterious character known as Olivia.
But I did mention an alumni. Alumni of what? Of the film franchise!
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Babes of Comic Con 2010 - Machete Girls
Over the months I’ve been seeing a lot of angst, politically and racially about the plot of Robert Rodriguez‘s movie Machete. It’s been questioned if it advocates race wars, or if it’s mexploitation or what have you. You might as well start griping about French films that hire French actors like Delphine Chaneac while you’re at it, or any film depicting a male committing violence… or female induced ass-kicking. WTH is the point of this focus on Machete? Maybe it’s just an easy target to latch onto with it’s recent media surge.
Machete is a movie that started out as a fake movie trailer in the 2007 shed-blood movie Grindhouse and there was enough interest in it to move forward with a real movie. That means people were interested in seeing it and all Robert Rodriguez did is go with it. In so doing, he hired people to fill the roles that he extrapolated from his fake trailer. People he knows who could do the job.
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