Alia Bhatt had been weighing her Hollywood options for a few years. A popular star of Hindi films for over a decade with nearly 79 million Instagram followers, she'd been interested in making an English-language film, but nothing had been working out. Then Bhatt got word of a new action franchise led and produced by Gal Gadot and within a week of reading the script, the deal had closed. It was, she concluded, fate.
In reading the script, she wanted to make sure that her character wasn't just there to fill a "South Asian" slot, and that she was involved in -- and impacting -- the storyline. "The two bounce off each other brilliantly and you get real electricity," Harper said. "Some of my favorite parts of the movie are when they riff off each other and the banter that they have."
The first film she produced, "Darlings," was a Netflix production as well, and the experience has been "challenging and scary and fruitful all at the same time."