“This summer the Angels are back.”

Character: Natalie Cook
Released: June 27, 2003

Directed by: McG
Written by: John August, Simon Kinberg
Genre: Action, Comedy

Co-Starring: Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Luke Wilson, Bernie Mac, Matt LeBlanc, Justin Theroux, Demi Moore, Rodrigo Santoro, John Cleese, Shia LaBeouf. (click here for additional cast)

The Angels prepare to strike without warning as they go undercover to retrieve two missing silver bands. These are no ordinary rings. They contain valuable encrypted information that reveal the new identities of every person in the Federal Witness Protection Program. When witnesses start turning up dead, only the Angels, using their expertise as masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts, can stop the perpetrator, a mysterious fallen Angel. Aided by their trusty colleague, Jimmy Bosley, the Angels adventure begins at a remote Mongolian outpost and ends only after Dylan is forced to face a dark secret from her past – a secret that puts the lives of her two best friends in danger.

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Movie Trivia

• The working title of the film was “Halo”.
• Drew Barrymore is a huge supporter of “gun control”. That is why none of the “Angels” are seen using any guns in this picture.
• The address on the envelope that Pete opens at the beginning of the film gives Pete and Natalie’s address as 2028 The Strand, Hermosa Beach, California, which is a valid address on the beach.
• Jamie Foxx was originally in talks to play the new Bosley.
• The “fallen Angel” storyline, featuring Madison Lee, was originally intended to be the basis of a third Charlie’s Angels film.
• When the angels are all shot by Madison, the formation they make on the ground where they lay is the same as the Charlie’s Angels symbol.
• In 2005 this became not only the first Sony Pictures film but the first film ever to be authored on the “blu-ray” DVD format.
• For the scene where Natalie is distracting the surfer at the beach and Alex and Dylan are underneath his car collecting clues, the car had to be put on jacks because the actresses couldn’t fit underneath the car.

Movie Quotes

Natalie: This is hostel, ya?

Natalie: Tickets, I love tickets!

Natalie: Killer, huh? I just got so excited. When it’s big like that I just love to ride it hard and rough.

Max: Helen Zass? That’s your name? Is that, uh, Ass-tralian?
Natalie: Oh my god! You must have been the butt of every joke!
Alex: Did you by chance drive an Ass-tin Martin?
Natalie: Alex! We’re being Ass-inine!
Dylan: Yes. Yes you are.

Natalie: You were the cock? I was the beaver!

Madison Lee: I don’t take orders from a speaker-box anymore. I work for myself.
Natalie: Well, your boss sucks.

Natalie: I have something you’ll never have.
Madison Lee: What’s that?
Natalie: Friends.

Cast and Crew Quotes

On coming back to the movie
“I never saw myself coming back to do a sequel. I like to work with different people, different directors, different stories. Then Drew called with a new twist on the storyline and said ‘let’s do it again!’ and Drew doesn’t stop until she gets what she wants. She is so enthusiastic and gives you so many good reasons to participate in her adventure that there’s no way to go against it.”

On why she returned
“It’s a great partnership. Each day is an adventure. You’re never sure exactly what you’re going to be called on to do. In this film, among other things, I learned to weld, I surfed, I was in a roller derby, and performed a number with this amazing group of beautiful, sexy dancers called the Pussycat Dolls.”

On the fighting scenes “We really get thrown around in this one, but I think Cheung-Yan and McG have married the two different styles of fighting very gracefully, so you have the best of both worlds. This time the bar was raised in a very organic way. It’s charged with even greater energy. The fight scenes are more exciting, more dynamic. There is just no way a human body can collide with another body over and over again, a hundred times a day and not get bruised. It’s part of the job. Eventually the bruises go away. What remains is the great feeling you get when you know that, after all that rehearsal, you got it right and that the take is perfect.”

On riding motorcycles and surfing
“Early on, McG discussed things that no one has ever seen three girls do in a film. He said motorcycles and surfing had never been shown in a way that was truly dynamic. So that became part of the movie and he made sure that we did it better than anyone.”

McG on the role of Natalie
“I always envisioned her coming from a happy, idealized Midwestern family with seven older brothers – which is how she learned to be so wild. She has such a great sense of self and she’s so compassionate and caring and optimistic. She sees the world through the bright eyes of the bushy-tailed newborn fawn that she is. Then she proceeds to beat the living daylights out of everybody.”