Two strong, kick-ass women.
Clear your weekend schedule, because there’s a new superhero in town that you’re guaranteed to be binge-watching and she’s unlike anything else that you’ve seen before.
Marvel’s Jessica Jones premieres on Netflix on Friday 20 November and it has all the ingredients to be your new favourite show. Not to give too much away, but the plot revolves around an anti-hero that’s bound to become a pop-culture heroine.
So what happens?
After a tragic ending to her short-lived stint as a superhero, Jessica Jones (a superb Krysten Ritter) is trying to rebuild her personal life and career as a private detective.
Things take a turn for the worse though when a shadowy and manipulative figure from her past returns and threatens to wreak havoc across New York City.
If you love comic book films, but have felt a slight malaise from seeing an endless amount of aerial spaceship dogfights, orbs of mysterious power and massive cities being destroyed in the cinema, then this is 100% the show for you.
The characters in Jessica Jones are complex, the subject matter is dark and each performance is pitch perfect.
As the lead, Krysten Ritter is a hard-drinking, ass-kicking and no s**t-taking hero who perfectly balances the character’s tough edge with her delicate past.
To celebrate the release of the next smash-hit show on Netflix, I caught up with two of the main actors, Jessica Jones herself – the effortlessly cool and talented Krysten Ritter (Breaking Bad and Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23) – and an actress whose ass-kicking credentials are second to none, the superb Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix, Memento).
They kindly did two things; 1) made me feel completely inadequate as a human being and 2) talked about Irish directors, TV binges and Guinness for lunch.
Ballsy, independent and well able to pack a punch, Krysten Ritter is just one of the stunning players in an amazing cast that includes a superb villainous turn from David Tennant (Kilgrave), the tough as nails Mike Colter (Luke Cage), stubbornly loyal Rachael Taylor (Trish Walker) and the always brilliant Carrie-Anne Moss.
Take a closer look…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcytHn1grbM
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