While Zack Snyder knows Sofia Boutella’s Kora has the wherewithal to defeat Gerard Butler’s King Leonidas in a fantasy fight, the writer-director is just as proud knowing that his “Rebel Moon” character has more to her than just her rough-and-tumble ways.
During “Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire,” Kora explains to one of her fellow rebels, “Kindness is a virtue worth dying for.” Snyder told us the line of dialogue was born of the character’s backstory, where she evolved from being a soldier raised and trained in the violent environs of the Motherworld to a peaceful person once she escaped the planet and found a save haven on Veldt.
“She’s a child of war; she’s a warrior. She solves a lot of her problems with violence, and her exposure to this child — who is a child — [in a scene early in the movie, she] expressed kindness on a supernatural and pure level [that] changed her,” Snyder explained to Looper. “She felt the difference between being aggressive with aggression as your primary motivator and kindness as your primary motivator.”
Also starring Charlie Hunnam, Michiel Huisman, Djimon Hounsou, Staz Nair, Ray Fisher, Cleopatra Coleman, E. Duffy, Doona Bae, and Ed Skrein, “Rebel Moon: A Child of Fire” is streaming exclusively on Netflix.
