Predator: Badlands stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi cut right to the chase.

The two actors weren’t put through extensive chemistry reads and screen tests, nor did they get to know each other ahead of shooting. Instead, they met in passing at a stunt rehearsal, and the next thing they knew, they were strapped to each other in the middle of Dan Trachtenberg’s remote New Zealand set. What resulted is now one of the more unique dynamic duos in recent memory.

Schuster-Koloamatangi, who’s a native New Zealander, plays Dek, the franchise’s first Yautja protagonist, and as the runt of his Predator clan, he’s been completely written off by his father. Refusing to accept this fate, Dek heads off on his first hunt without the blessing of his clan, and he soon crash lands

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