She is gaining a reputation for such roles with films like “The Ice Road” and her latest, “Prey.” She’s the rare Native American actress to star in the genre.
It was the day a grand showdown fight in “Prey” was to be shot, and Amber Midthunder felt awful.
She was ill, and she had lost her voice. The sequence involved the movie’s most physically intensive action, requiring fine-tuned choreography and a rousing finish. And you generally want to be at your best when facing an intergalactic nemesis who has journeyed to Earth to hunt people for sport.
“I really wanted to do it! So I just didn’t talk to anybody all day long,” Midthunder said. “And then we were like, ‘We’ll just try it and see what happens.’”
The steely nerves paid off. On Friday, “Prey,” directed by Dan Trachtenberg, premieres on Hulu with a novel rethink of the “Predator” action series that is set in the early 18th century and doubles as a coming-of-age adventure. Midthunder plays Naru, a young Comanche woman who must prove herself to a tribe that underestimates her.
But there’s no underestimating the 25-year-old actor who is taking on the kind of starring role that isn’t always attainable in Hollywood. As a member of the Fort Peck Sioux tribe, she is the rare Native American female action lead, headlining a franchise that originally rested on the pumped shoulders of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Performing death-defying leaps, flinging axes with precision and delivering well-timed one-liners, Midthunder meets most definitions of “action hero.”
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Prey premiered at San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, 2022, and was released by 20th Century Studios as a Hulu original film in the United States and on Disney+ Star internationally on August 5.
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,” directed by Dan Trachtenberg, premieres on Hulu with a novel rethink of the “Predator” action series that is set in the early 18th century and doubles as a coming-of-age adventure. Midthunder plays Naru, a young Comanche woman who must prove herself to a tribe that underestimates her.
Prey is a 2022 American science fiction film in the Predator franchise. It is the fifth film in the mainline series and seventh in the overall franchise. It is a prequel to the first four films, being set in the Northern Great Plains in 1719. The film is directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison.
Father of Amber Midthunder, with his wife Angelique Midthunder. He and his daughter Amber Midthunder act in Longmire (2012), respectively as David Ridges and Lilly Stillwater. He resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife Angelique Midthunder.
Amber Midthunder (Fort Peck Assiniboine/Sahiya Nakoda/Hunkpapa Lakota/Sisseton Dakota) did something no one else has done before–she played a Comanche action star and Native woman lead named Naru, who protected her tribe from a murderous advanced alien in the sci-fi thriller part of the Predator franchise, “Prey.” Set ...
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