[This story contains spoilers for Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite.]
Angel Reese can now say that she’s starred on the big screen at the Venice Film Festival.
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The WNBA superstar has a surprise cameo in Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear disaster thriller A House of Dynamite, a Netflix film that had its world premiere inside the fest’s Sala Grande theater on Tuesday evening. Bigelow soaked in the scene along with her cast members, including Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Anthony Ramos, Greta Lee, Gabriel Basso, Tracy Letts and Jared Harris, as the pic earned an 11-minute standing ovation.
Reese, a Vogue cover girl who currently plays for the Chicago Sky, can say she’s in good company as the cast also includes Jonah Hauer-King, Moses Ingram, Malachi Beasley, Brian Tee, Brittany O’Grady, Willa Fitzgerald, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kyle Allen and Kaitlyn Dever.
The film is separated into three chapters and Reese appears in the third and final. There’s a little bit of a lead-up to her cameo as Elba’s character, the President of the United States, is briefed in the White House that the next item on his agenda is an “Angel Reese” thing. The action picks up as the president visits Liberty Arena where Reese is waiting on the basketball floor with a group of girls. Elba’s character then shoots some hoops and shares how sports have changed his life. Reese engaged with Elba and the young women until the president was abruptly pulled away to deal with a developing catastrophe.
Bigelow’s film, penned by Noah Oppenheim, tells the story of what unfolds after a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, forcing a tense race among political and military officials to determine who is responsible and how the U.S. should respond before an entire city is wiped from the map.
Following its world premiere at the 82nd Venice Film Festival, A House of Dynamite opens in select theaters Oct. 3 in the U.K., globally Oct. 10 and on Netflix Oct. 24.
It’s not the first time Reese has appeared on screen in a creative way. The Louisiana State University national championship star previously was seen in music videos for NLE Choppa’s “Champions” and Latto featuring Cardi B’s “Put it on Da Floor Again.”
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