Very rarely does death hold any real stakes in any major blockbuster franchise, but Fast & Furious has taken things to a nonsensical new level with its refusal to let any remotely popular character die and stay that way.
The entire Fast Saga was completely retconned around Han’s apparent demise in Tokyo Drift so that he could be murdered again before being brought back to life, while even Michelle Rodriguez’s Letty was revealed to have survived her certain doom after amnesia of all things was used to explain her absence.
That brings us neatly onto Gal Gadot’s Gisele, who made the most ludicrous comeback of them all at the end of Fast X when she suddenly popped up from a goddamned submarine in the middle of nowhere a decade after falling out of a moving plane in the midst of takeoff on the longest runway there’s ever been in the sixth installment.
Naturally, the explanation won’t make a lick of sense, but Gadot justified her unexpected absorption back into the fold anyway in an interview with Total Film.
“Wow. I wish I could say something. If I’m going to say something to you, somebody is going to jump into my room and tie my mouth. But Fast was the first feature I’d ever done as an actress. They were the ones to give me my first opportunity, my first break in Hollywood. And I’m forever grateful for that. And they’re a community. They’re like family.
We still keep in touch. They have a special place in my heart and it’s very exciting. I think that the Fast Saga… they manage to create a huge, incredible, loyal fanbase like no one else. I’ve seen it nowhere else, you know? And my love to them, and the love from the fans, and my love to the fans, it just felt right this time. And it’s very exciting.”
We can’t wait to discover how she managed to survive, but all we can guarantee at this stage is that it’ll make perfect sense within the deranged context Dominic Toretto and the rest of the family live in.
