Actress Anjelica Huston will reprise her role as director in Ballerina, the John Wick spin-off.
The menacing killer in John Wick Parabellum, the character The Director, portrayed by Anjelica Huston, taught young dancers how to understand that art is suffering, and taught young fighters how to do acrobatics. She will star in Ballerina alongside Ana de Armas, a young woman with assassin skills who uses those skills to avenge the murder of her family by hitmen, and Ian McShane, who reprises his role as Winston, the manager of Continental. hotel for assassins with its own rules and serious consequences for their violation.
Anjelica Huston joins Ana de Armas in Lionsgate’s John Wick spin-off Ballerina (exclusive) https://t.co/4Vgjp036ax
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Erika Lee, who is producing Ballerina with Basil Ivanik and Chad Stahelski, said:
The idea of the ballerina was formed around scenes with Anjelica Huston in John Wick 3. She is an icon and nothing short of Hollywood royalty. The world of John Wick continues to grow thanks to his commanding screen presence.
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Anjelica Huston, whose mother was a ballerina (her father was director John Huston), has spent the last few years focusing on voice acting, starring as the narrator in Wes Anderson’s French Dispatcher and working on shows such as American Dad and “BoJack Horseman”. She co-starred with Noah Schnapp (Stranger Things) in the 2020 World War II drama Waiting for Anya.