'Prey' star Amber Midthunder on fighting the Predator and being an action hero

Amber Midthunder as Naru in 20th Century Studios' PREY, exclusively on Hulu. Photo by David Bukach. © 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

For a science fiction monster as popular as the Predator, its feature film output has been disappointingly mediocre. It has been 35 years since the original Predator movie, where we first saw the highly-evolved, ultimate hunter-alien match wits with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dutch in the jungles of Central America.

Amber Midthunder as Naru in Prey.

Since then, there have been three sequels (1990’s Predator 2, 2010’s Predators, and 2018’s The Predator) that have ranged from disappointing to mildly entertaining, and two crossovers with the Aliens franchise that should be put back to the chopper.