![]() ![]() In case you’re having trouble, Cara - her full name is apparently Cara Mirtha, and she’s played by Dominican American actress Mirtha Michelle - is a minor character from the franchise’s fourth entry, Fast & Furious. As Dom intones in his trademark baritone, Leysa is apparently “Cara’s sister,” and because this is a franchise that assumes the audience has a Star Wars–level reverence for everyone who’s ever appeared onscreen, we’re all expected to remember immediately who Cara is and what her deal is. Okay, so: Cardi is playing Leysa, the leader of an all-female paramilitary group that poses as a SWAT team to help Dom escape the clutches of the movie’s secondary villain, an asshole rich kid whose dialogue makes it clear this movie was originally supposed to be released into a world where Trump was still president. ![]() As our in-house expert on the basic plot points of contemporary blockbusters, let me explain it all for you. The key information of exactly who Cardi’s supposed to be, and her connection to the wider Fast universe, is dispensed in a whirlwind minute-long scene, which paradoxically gets more confusing the more exposition it contains. Instead, she plays a character who gets Diesel’s Dom Toretto out of a jam in the movie’s second act. Unlike her predecessors, Cardi’s not playing herself. But now that the movie’s been released, it turns out there’s a twist. So it was not exactly surprising last year when Vin Diesel announced that Cardi B had joined the Fast family for F9. Who can forget the scene where Rita Ora kicked off a London street race in Fast & Furious 6, or the time Iggy Azalea popped up in Fast & Furious 7 to deliver the immortal line, “Where you been at, ghost girl?” ![]() The Fast & Furious universe may be disproportionately inhabited by gruff bald men, but it still manages to find a little room for female pop stars, too. ![]()
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