“The Expendables” franchise has — smartly — allowed its titular roster of tough, never-say-die mercenaries to include women, as demonstrated by 2014’s “The Expendables 3″ adding Ronda Rousey to the crew and the upcoming “Expend4bles” (type that five times fast) bringing in Megan Fox and Levy Tran.However, while making the first “Expendables” back in 2010, that wasn’t quite the case.
That film only features two female characters: Lacy (Charisma Carpenter), the cheating girlfriend of Jason Statham’s Lee Christmas, and Sandra (Giselle Itié), the daughter of a South American dictator who wants to use the Expendables to help overthrow her father and his ex-CIA puppet master, Munroe (Eric Roberts).Although Sandra is an integral part of the film, she’s no trained mercenary, and ends up being captured by the bad guys and tortured for information.
It must’ve been difficult for the Brazilian actress to deal with the atmosphere of testosterone-fueled competition surrounding her,…
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