By Ana Perez
Get ready to be sucked into the mind-bending film that is Bliss. Starring Salma Hayek (Like a Boss, The Hummingbird Project) and Owen Wilson (Wonder, Wedding Crashers), Bliss takes viewers through a distorted love-story between the two.
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Hayek plays Isabel, a woman who seemingly lives in the streets of a shattered world, convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is only a computer simulation. Wilson plays Greg, a recently divorced man who just got fired and whose world is falling apart. After the two connect, they both end up believing they are living in a simulated reality, created to make society appreciate the beautiful world they truly live in.
The distorted story only becomes more complicated as Greg struggles to determine which of the two worlds is reality and which is the simulation. He is swayed by Isabel and his daughter played by Nesta Cooper (The Edge of Seventeen, #Realityhigh) in his quest to choose what is real.
The sci-fi drama was written and directed by Mike Cahill. Cahill is no stranger to the science fiction realm having written and directed both I Origins and Another Earth. The latter was co-written with Brit Marling.
The Bliss also includes Madeline Zima (Californication, Heroes) and Joshua Leonard (The Blair Witch Project, If I Stay).
We last saw Hayek in The Roads Not Taken and Like a Boss in 2020. This year will bring the Mexican actress to our screens a lot more. Hayek will star alongside Angelina Jolie (Maleficent) and Richard Madden (Game of Thrones, 1917) in Marvel Studios’ Eternals where she plays a superhero worshipped by the Incas. The blockbuster is scheduled to release this coming Nov. 5 as part of Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
Hayek will also return to the big screen in the title role of The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, the sequel to The Hitman’s Bodyguard, where she will reprise her role as Sonia Kincaid. The actress will star alongside Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, Detective Pikachu) and Samuel L. Jackson (The Hateful Eight) who plays her husband.
Hayek will share her Bliss leading man, Wilson with another powerhouse Latina in 2021. Wilson and Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers) star in the romantic-comedy Marry Me. This film is tentatively scheduled for a May 2021 release.
Bliss is set to be released on Feb. 5 by Amazon Studios on Prime Video.
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