I feel that is what we’re moving towards.” “There’s not a female Navy SEAL right now, but there will be soon. “I love that the filmmakers wanted to create this character, to envision this woman,” Turner-Smith says, explaining why the role is groundbreaking. “So, I had unique challenges that my co-stars didn’t have.”ĭespite the challenges, Turner-Smith relished the chance to play Greer, a character whose trailblazing backstory was shaped by screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. “I don’t know if you know this, but when you are pregnant, it’s very hard to hold your breath,” she quips. While her co-stars were able to learn how to use a diving apparatus called a rebreather - which recycles carbon dioxide to provide oxygen for the diver underwater - she simply had to hold her breath. The most complex element for Turner-Smith to pull off were the film’s underwater stunts. “We’re emulating guys who have been working together, alongside each other for years, so there needed to be a sense of familiarity and comfort and ease to how they work together.” “We worked really closely with these guys on set who were there to teach us how to operate in combat, how to move with and around each other, how to talk to each other,” she explains. His friend and ally Karen (Jodie Turner-Smith, from Queen & Slim) has John’s back and secretary of defense Clay (Guy Pearce) rather approves of his heroically unconventional methods – though slippery CIA chief Ritter (Jamie Bell) seems to be running some kind of side-hustle which involves appeasing the Russians.“ wasn’t straightforward because I was pregnant, so that definitely added a layer of complexity to it,” says Turner-Smith, who welcomed a baby girl with her husband, actor Joshua Jackson, in April 2020. So Without Remorse becomes essentially an unidirectional revenge story, as John is permitted back into the field on a deniable “black ops” payback mission. Michael B Jordan is Navy Seal John Clark, whose pregnant wife is murdered on US soil, apparently by FSB agents in revenge for John taking out Russian special forces in Aleppo as part of a hostage rescue. This film is based on Tom Clancy’s 1993 bestseller, originally set during the Vietnam war, but now updated to the situation in Syria. Sheridan and Sollima are reunited for this movie, but it is a by-the-numbers macho adventure not unlike something from the era of VHS rental, Rambo and tough-guy military mavericks being sold down the river by the pointy-headed creeps in suits back in Washington DC or Langley, home of the CIA. I n the last few years, screenwriter Taylor Sheridan brought something steely and smart to the action genre with the drug-cartel thriller Sicario and its politically provocative sequel Sicario 2, a Trumpian nightmare of border-incursion, directed by Stefano Sollima.

Without remorse 2021