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“Pool has been assembled and our gear has been sniffed for explosives by a very gorgeous girl named Kora. Pool was also scanned with a magnetometer, but this was outside Kora’s area of responsibility as she lacks the opposable thumbs needed to hold that particular instrument.”

In November 2023, Michael Contillo and his father, Michael Sr., took Contillo’s two French bulldogs, Ash and Kora, with them on a two-month trip to New York, according to a lawsuit Contillo filed Wednesday in San Francisco County Superior Court.

Now 41, she drew on that formative experience for Zack Snyder’s sci-fi epic “Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire” as Kora, a mysterious woman who has been uprooted from her former life and must create a new one in a village on a distant moon.

Like Kora, Boutella understands what such a journey takes from you and what it gives in return.

Boutella often has an otherworldly screen presence that makes her perfectly suited for this kind of material, but the fussiness of all that is happening around Kora means that the character and performance never get a chance to breathe and blossom, or to fully come to life.