Charlize Theron has been a leading woman in action movies since Mad Max: Fury Road. She has really been making action movies since Mighty Joe Young and Reindeer gamesBut Hollywood took a while to get it. 2003’s Italian work It was an important springboard, but only because Theron made lemonade with his sexist lemons.
San Diego Comic-Con @ Home honored Theron with a panel celebrating his career in action movies. During his discussion with IGN’s Terry Schwartz on July 24, Theron described the situation in Italian work and how it motivated her.
Charlize Theron was quick and furious on ‘The Italian Job’
Theron joined the Fast and Furious franchise in The fate of the furious. Italian work It was his first driving action movie, when the gang led chases in a MINI Coopers caravan.
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“For sure, Italian work It was a great experience in the sense that I realized there were so many misconceptions about women in the genre, “Theron told Schwartz.” Although that movie, the action is really based on cars, we had to physically do a lot of Those things. The only good thing that came out of that experience was that there was real pressure to perform those stunts with the actors. That was the first time I experienced something like that. “
‘The Italian Job’ assumed that a girl like Charlize Theron couldn’t drive
Theron continued to be an actor who learned to fight and do stunts herself. However, she screamed Italian work producers assuming she would need more training than her male co-stars, just because she was a woman.
“There was a very unfair process that went with that,” Theron continued. “She was the only woman with a lot of boys. I vividly remember getting the calendar in our pre-production. I had been scheduled six more weeks of car training than any of the boys. It was very insulting, but it was also what put a real fire under my butt. “
Theron did show his male co-stars.
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“It was all right, you guys want to play this game, come on,” Theron said. “I set out to beat all those guys [and] I vividly remember Mark Wahlberg, halfway through one of our training sessions, stopping and vomiting because I was nauseous from doing 360s. “
She performed this fast and furious trick
If you go back and see the amazing driving in Italian workI know Theron did this trick herself. That enabled her to continue pushing for action movies and raising her own bar.
“I was very proud of the stunts we did on that,” Theron said. “I did a trick in that movie where I do a reverse flip of 360 or maybe 180 in a warehouse with accessories everywhere and people. It was a great time feeling that yes, we can do all of this. Women are so unfairly thought of or treated when it comes to this genre. “
