“That was not in the script she just ad-libbed that.”Īnd unlike the previous movie, which set its female Horseman up as the object of desire for not one but two of her male counterparts, Lula is the main romantic aggressor in Now You See Me 2. “There’s a line in there about the motorcycle: ‘Did you ask any of the guys that question?’” Chu said.
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As the group prepares for a high-speed chase in another scene, Lula balks as one of her male counterparts asks if she knows how to ride a motorcycle. Lula herself points out the awkward “token woman” dilemma early on, introducing herself to the group as “the girl Horseman,” and she doesn’t stop there. She could “let the audience know that we’re in on the fun of our movie, and the ridiculousness of our movie.”īeyond her quirky presence and high energy, Lula also provides the bulk of the movie’s meta-commentary-one of its biggest value adds over the original. “ could act as an outsider coming in, and call out our movie,” Chu told Vanity Fair. (Caution: mild spoilers for Now You See Me 2 ahead.) From the start, director Jon Chu had a different sort of role in mind for Caplan-both on-screen and behind the scenes. It's not long before another girl gets added to the mix-but Caplan’s character Lula is anything but a stand-in for Henley. In Now You See Me, the one female member of the Four Horsemen-a team of underground magician-thieves-was Henley Reeves ( Isla Fisher). But soon enough, a new, delightfully refreshing ingredient gets thrown into the mix: Lizzy Caplan.
There’s a monologue about the nature of magic Jesse Eisenberg is still Eisenberg-ing (with shorter hair this time) Morgan Freeman’s Thaddeus Bradley is still rotting in prison, where Mark Ruffalo’s Dylan Rhodes left him in Now You See Me.
The first few minutes of Now You See Me 2 make it seem as though things haven’t changed much since the original movie.
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