Abby Ryder Fortson’s Cassie Lang is one of the best parts of Peyton Reed’s first two “Ant-Man” films.
2015’s “Ant-Man” introduces Cassie as an eight-year-old ball of energy who sees nothing but the best in her father, Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang, even when the rest of the world dismisses him as an ex-con.
She’s also weird in a way that rings believable for a kid, nerding out over the “ugly” bunny doll Scott gifts her on her birthday. The next time we see Cassie in 2018’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” she’s grown up enough to have some thoughts on her dad’s quasi-romantic relationship with his work buddy, Evangeline Lilly’s Hope van Dyne, but not so much as to strain credibility.
These scenes rely heavily on Rudd and Fortson to work.
Fortunately, their strong chemistry is more than enough to fully sell this father-daughter dynamic despite limited screen time.
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