Kartiah Vergara Joins Russell Crowe In Action Thriller ‘Bear Country’​on February 10, 2025 at 5:28 pm

EXCLUSIVE: Up-and-comer Kartiah Vergara (All Her Fault) has landed a supporting role alongside Academy Award winner Russell Crowe in Bear Country, an action thriller from director Derrick Borte that has commenced principal photography in the Australian state of Queensland.

Based on the novel Strip by Thomas Perry, Bear Country has Crowe playing the aging yet formidable club owner, Manco Kapak, who has been robbed by a masked gunman. Now, his aspirations of selling his club and riding off into the sunset alongside his girlfriend appear more distant than ever. Cartel bosses are breathing down his neck and a young upstart has been posing as the new guy in town eager to purchase the club.

Borte adapted the screenplay with Daniel Forte. Producers of the project include Mark Fasano (Marlowe) of Nickel City Pictures; Jeffrey Greenstein (The Hitman’s Bodyguard) of A Higher Standard; Deborah Glover (Sleeping Dogs) of G2 Dispatch; and Mark Bower and Bruno Mustic of Life & Soul Pictures. The production is supported by the City of Gold Coast and by the Australian Government through the Location Offset.

The project reunites Crowe with Borte following their work on the pandemic-era action thriller, Unhinged.

Recently wrapping a role opposite Sarah Snook in Peacock’s limited series All Her Fault, Vergara has previously tackled supporting roles in romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise, opposite Julia Roberts and George Clooney, and Dora the Explorer: The Lost City of Gold. She is repped by The Rosenzweig Group and Anthony Kidd at Benchmark Creative Management in Australia.