‘My Spy’ Trailer: Dave Bautista Is A Super Spy Who’s Met His Match
Dave Bautistais well enough into his transition from wrestling into acting that we can confidently call him a good actor. After making a splash inGuardians of the Galaxy, Bautista has bucked expectations for the typical wrestler-turned-actor, instead carving out a path as one of the most interesting character actors working today. But duty calls, and Bautista is doing what many a wrestler-turned-actor has done before him: a family comedy. Bautista is starring in the Peter Segal-directed comedyMy Spy, as a hardened CIA agent who finally meets his match in a pint-sized girl (Chloe Coleman). Watch theMy Spytrailer below.
My Spy Trailer
Though Bautista has been diligently making bold character actor choices in action films likeBlade Runner 2049andSpectre, the actor seems to be finally making his way to comedy. In addition to earning raves in the buddy-comedyStuberwith Kumail Nanjiani, a pairing which /Film reviewer Meredith Borders said in herreview"might feel unlikely on paper but registers as instantly legendary onscreen," Bautista is finally doing his first family comedy. It seems like the fate for every wrestler-turned-actor — or at least, every muscular dude — to star in a comedy in which they deal with unruly children because, hey, what’s funnier than a huge gruff guy haplessly try to control kids! From Vin Diesel inThe Pacifierto Dwayne Johnson inThe Tooth Fairybefore him, now comes Bautista inMy Spy.
My Spy"follows a hardened CIA operative (Bautista) who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl (Coleman), having been sent undercover to surveil her family." The script is penned byJon and Erich Hoeber, whose screenwriting credits include theRedaction-franchise andBattleship, as well as last year’s giant shark spectacle,The Meg, starring Jason Statham. Segal, who is best known forGet SmartandFifty First Dates, directs.My Spyis scheduled to hit theaters later this year.
