Men In Black II: Cast & Character Guide

Here ’s a quick dramatis personae and character scout for blockbuster sequelMen In Black II . The originalMen In Blackfrom 1997 was slackly based on a comic by the same name and featured the astonishingly potent comic chemistry of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones . The movie borrowedGhostbusters’formula of shuffle clowning with some revulsion and found Smith and Jones as a pair of authorities agent task with taking down foreign terror that are enshroud from the public .

The motion picture was a huge success , but it took a amazingly foresighted time forMen In Black IIto roll around . The subsequence landed in 2002 to mixed reviews but it was another striking . Men In Black 3took even longer to produce and had a famously strange output , which includes shoot begin when only a third of the script had been save . Nevertheless , the threequel was the most successful to escort . Smith and Jones decided against further sequel , withThor : Ragnarokstars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson taking over the series forMen In Black : International . That entry prove to be a box - office dud , however , go out the future of the franchise in dubiousness .

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The sequels have largely demonstrate to be a miscellaneous old bag , but the series still has its sports fan . Here ’s a cast and character reference breakdown forMen In Black II .

Will Smith - Agent J

AKA James Darrell Edwards III , Agent J ( Will Smith , Gemini Man ) is a former fuzz who was recruited for the agency in the original film . Men In Black IIfinds J still agile with the gags but distressed with the quality of his mate after K ’s retirement . He finds himself as something of a mentor to K when they have to touch on his computer memory .

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Tommy Lee Jones - Agent K

Tommy Lee Jones ( Ad Astra ) is the gruff , no - gimcrackery Agent K who pull away at the last of the first picture show . Since an event from K ’s past is central toMen In Black II’splot , he must bushel his computer storage to make unnecessary Earth .

Rosario Dawson - Laura Vasquez

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Rosario Dawson ( Zombieland : Double Tap ) is Laura , a waitress who witness a murder by villain Serleena . Laura becomes J ’s dearest interest , though it ’s later revealed she ’s really the Light of Zartha , the daughter of the late Zarthan Queen that Serleena is seeking .

Lara Flynn Boyle - Serleena

Lara Flynn Boyle ( Twin Peaks ) wager Serleena inMen In Black II , a shapeshifting , plantlike alien that takes the figure of a manakin to move around Earth . She later takes over the MiB military headquarters and is search for the Light of Zartha .

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