{"id":1172611,"date":"2026-08-27T17:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1172611\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:07:15","slug":"heat-2-movie-casts-odessa-young-to-play-charlene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1172611\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Heat 2’ Movie Casts Odessa Young To Play Charlene"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Michael Mann<\/a> looks to have found his Charlene for his upcoming sequel to Heat, as sources tell Deadline the director has tapped Odessa Young<\/a> to play the character in Heat 2<\/a>. Sources say it is unknown where things stand in negotiations, but add she is the choice for the role originally played by Ashley Judd in the 1995 crime saga. Insiders also say Mann\u2019s top choice to play Gabi is newcomer Mar\u00eda Cid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tReps for Amazon and the actors declined comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tA recent report speculated that Obsession star Inde Navarrette had landed the Charlene role but passed. Sources close to the production say Navarrette actually auditioned for Gabi along with many others. Contrary to the rumors, Cid was Mann\u2019s first choice for Gabi, with Young the first choice for Charlene.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf deals close, Young and Cid would join Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, Adam Driver, Stephen Graham and Jason Clarke in the upcoming pic. Mann will direct\u00a0from his own script, based on his and Meg Gardiner\u2019s No. 1 New York Times\u00a0bestselling novel.<\/p>\n

\n\tProducers include Mann, Jerry Bruckheimer Films\u2019 Jerry Bruckheimer, and UA\u2019s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt. Eric Roth and Shane Salerno will executive produce, with Amazon MGM to release the film in theaters.<\/p>\n

\n\tMann\u2019s classic 1995 crime thriller\u00a0Heat\u00a0follows master thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) as he plans one last score while obsessive LAPD detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) closes in, with both men wrecking their personal lives in service of the job.<\/p>\n

\n\tMann wrote and directed that one and produced alongside Art Linson, with the film grossing more than $187 million \u2014 that would be in the $400 million range if released today \u2014 at the worldwide box office. Also starring Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore and more, the film from Warner Bros and New Regency has influenced generations of filmmakers and retained major viewership on streaming and home entertainment for decades.<\/p>\n

\n\tPublished in 2022,\u00a0Heat 2\u00a0is both prequel and sequel, examining Hanna\u2019s Chicago years, McCauley\u2019s earlier criminal life, and the survival of Kilmer\u2019s Chris Shiherlis after the original film\u2019s bank-robbery climax.<\/p>\n

\n\tYoung most recently starred opposite Jeremy Allen White in the Bruce Springsteen biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. She recently wrapped production on the Netflix crime series Rabbit, Rabbit, starring Driver.<\/p>\n

\n\tYoung is repped by CAA, Echo Lake Entertainment and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Cid is repped by Lumo Artists Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Michael Mann looks to have found his Charlene for his upcoming sequel to Heat, as sources tell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1172612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,318046,318047,162385,318048,16,15],"class_list":["post-1172611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-heat-2","tag-maru00eda-cid","tag-michael-mann","tag-odessa-young","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117168573549766373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1172612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}