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Elle Fanning plays 2 different characters in Predator: Badlands (We know who it is)!

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Written by Chris730 Reads2 Comments2025-07-08 06:58:02

We know Elle Fanning plays a Weyland-Yutani Robot Synthetic named Thia in Predator: Badlands already, but during an interview with Empire Magazine, director Dan Trachtenberg reveals she actually plays 2 characters in the movie! The second character currently remains tightly under wraps...

Alongside Dek on his blood-spaked voyage is Elle Fanning playing two characters – one Trachtenberg is keeping schtum about, the other is Thia, a lifelike robot 'synth' manufactured by Weyland-Yutani, the tech conglomerate featured in the Alien movies.

... However, since we've been obsessively tracking all news on Predator: Badlands since its inception, we know the second character Elle Fanning plays goes by the name of Tessa! Tessa is Thia's twin sister – and given Thia is a Weyland-Yutani Synthetic, we can deduce that Tessa is also, a Weyland-Yutani Synthetic.

Early casting calls for Predator: Badlands revealed information about the Thia / Tessa character:

...The other sister, Tessa, has a militant intensity when it comes to achieving her family’s goals and mission objectives. She will not let anything get in her way, not even her twin sister.

So, while Thia will be more comedic and lighthearted, expect Tessa to be more serious and militant – much like the personality shifts witnessed by Andy in Fede Alvarez's Alien: Romulus pre and post software update.

For all information regarding Predator: Badlands, we've got your covered!

Dan Trachtenberg's Predator: Badlands hits theaters November 7th, 2025! You can subscribe to the Predator Movie news blog to get notified when new updates get posted!

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2 Comments

Svanya

AdminElder PredatorJul-08-2025 3:19 PM

I always understood there were two androids, one has a purple streak in her hair. How old is this article tho, because I got in a discussion with someone on Reddit saying the two androids theory was debunked and was just a casting call misdirect, to which I said I didn't think so and that I heard there were two versions of Thia. One of them is also torn in half, similar to Bishop.

Chris

AdminBroken TuskJul-08-2025 5:28 PM

The Empire preview is less than a week old. Haven't read anything about the dual casting being a misdirect, where was the source for the debunking? There literally is no other logical explanation for her playing 2 roles if they weren't both Synths. Even if it was the Human her model is based on, one would be aged significantly compared to the Android version.

I think the casting call was accurate and Thia / Tessa are 2 of the same Weyland-Yutani synthetic models.

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