Romeo Must Die (2000) is a hip hop martial arts mashup starring Aaliyah and Jet Li. Despite Bob’s desire to detach this movie from the original text, Charisse insists that this reimagining complicates the rivalry by fleshing Ladies Montague (Kai) and Capulet (Mac) and sacrificing Po (Mercutio) and Colin (Tybalt) early on. We also read Aaliyah as a real-life Juliet, whose onscreen kiss with Jet Li did not test well with "urban audiences" despite her not-so-secret romance with R. Kelly just six years prior.