Quentin Tarantino says he would cast Maya Hawke as The Bride’s daughter in Kill Bill 3. Uma Thurman played the Bride aka Beatrix Kiddo in Tarantino’s original blood-soaked two-part revenge epic Kill Bill.
In the years since Kill Bill Vol. 2 wrapped up the bloody story of the Bride, Tarantino has often spoken about revisiting the character and her daughter BB in a third Kill Bill installment. At various times he has said the plan would be for the daughter of The Bride’s revenge victim Vernita Green to come back and seek her own vengeance against Beatrix and BB, leading to yet more carnage. Recently, Vernita Green actress Viveca A. Fox even put forward Zendaya as the perfect person to play the vengeful Nikki Green.
Tarantino himself has now gotten in on the speculative Kill Bill 3 casting game by putting forth his choice to play the grown up BB Kiddo – and it’s a pretty perfect choice. Appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience to promote his novelization of Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Tarantino said Bride actress Thurman’s real-life daughter Hawke would get the role if he ever made the movie. He explained (via The Ronin):
“I think it’s just revisiting the characters twenty years later and just imagining the Bride and her daughter, BB, having 20 years of peace, and then that peace is shattered. And now the Bride and BB are on the run and just the idea of being able to cast Uma [Thurman] and cast her daughter Maya [Hawke] in the thing would be f--king exciting.”
Tarantino further teased his Kill Bill 3 ideas, reminding folks of all the characters The Bride failed to take care of in the first two movies who could potentially seek revenge:
“Elle Driver is still out there, Sophie Fatale got her arm cut off, but she’s still out there. They all got Bill’s money. Actually, Gogo had a twin sister Shiaki and so her twin sister could show up.”
Hawke of course made her Tarantino universe debut in Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, playing the Manson Family member (identified only as “Flowerchild” in the credits) who gets cold feet and runs away moments before the movie’s explosively violent history-revising finale. Hawke has also established herself outside the Tarantino realm thanks mostly to her role as Robin Buckley in Netflix’s Stranger Things.
It would indeed be exciting to see Hawke team up with her mother Thurman in a third Kill Bill film. Whether Thurman herself would be down for such a project is an open question as the status of her relationship with Tarantino is not known following revelations about the director’s role in the car accident that caused her serious physical injury during the shooting of Kill Bill. And of course there’s Tarantino’s own mercurial nature to consider. Tarantino may talk about making a third Kill Bill film, but frankly he talks about a lot of things that never end up coming to fruition. Recently, the writer-director has in fact spoken openly about retiring to become a “man of letters,” so who knows if he will even fulfill his promise of making a tenth movie. If however he does end up making that tenth film to round out his career, Kill Bill 3 would seem a fitting capper. And it would seem even more fitting to have his most important leading actress Thurman return with him. Adding Hawke to the mix only increases the sense that this would be a perfect final project for Tarantino.
Source: The Joe Rogan Experience (via The Ronin)