Netflix is passing the Dutchie to Famke Janssen (Goldeneye, The House on Haunted Hill, Fox’s X-Men film franchise) for its upcoming hashish drama Amsterdam Empire. The new undertaking finds Janssen’s character, Betty, constructing a brand new life and getting revenge after discovering her husband’s infidelity.
Speaking with Variety on the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, Janssen stated, “My character, Betty, is a former pop star from the 90s who had one hit called ‘Forever.’ Her husband owns the biggest weed empire. Then she finds out he’s cheated with a younger woman, and now, she’s pregnant. He wants to buy her off with some money, but she won’t come after the money: she’ll come after the whole weed empire. And destroy him in the process.”
While Betty is out to make her ex’s life depressing, that’s not the one factor regarding her character. Betty is greater than her anger. She’s good and calculating and gained’t cease till she will get what she needs. “She’s not enraged the whole time. I wanted to make sure of that, because it could get a little tiresome.” Janssen commented on well-known pop stars who impressed Betty’s vibe, telling Variety, “I wanted to challenge myself, even by doing a music video and learning to dance and sing. We looked at everyone for inspiration, at Paula Abdul and all these other women who were performing at the time. Their fashion, choreography.”
Piet Matthys, Nico Moolenaar, and Bart Uytdenhouwen created Netflix’s Amsterdam Empire, which lastly options Famke Janssen in a Dutch-speaking position. “All of a sudden, after a whole career of acting in English, I’m acting in Dutch. When you speak English, it’s a different part of you. You’re not the same person. It felt different. And fun.”
Other exhibits like Jenji Kohan’s Weeds, starring Mary-Louis Parker, Disjointed, and Family Business characteristic characters navigating the hashish business in intense and hilarious methods. However, the tone of Amsterdam Empire sounds extra dramatic, like against the law thriller trapped in a Dutch oven. I can simply see Famke Janssen taking no prisoners in a present like Amsterdam Empire, and I really feel sorry for anybody who will get in Betty’s manner on her climb up the ladder of revenge.
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