Charlize Theron is becoming sincere about the dangers of being a female performer in Hollywood.
The actress spoke on the “Evolution of a Bada – s” panel during Comic-Con @ Home on Friday and spoke about her experience working on action movies, a genre dominated by men.
Theron, 44, drew on his experience acting in the 2003 remake of the heist movie, “The Italian Job”, and on what he remembered the “unfair” treatment during the film’s prep phase.
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Charlize Theron
(Reuters)
“I realized there were still so many misconceptions about women in the genre,” recalled the “Old Guard” star at the virtual roundtable.
“The only good thing that came out of that experience was that there was real pressure to do those stunts with the actors, and that was the first time I experienced something like that,” Theron explained. “But there was a very unfair process with that. I was the only woman with a bunch of guys, and I vividly remember having the schedule in our pre-production and had six more weeks of car training scheduled for me than any of the guys.”
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The Oscar winner said she was upset that she couldn’t learn as much as her male counterparts in the same amount of training time.
This image released by Universal Pictures shows Charlize Theron, left, and Vin Diesel in ‘The Fate of the Furious’. (Universal images via AP)
“It was very insulting, but it was also what caused a real fire under me … and I thought, ‘Okay, do you want to play this game? Come on,'” he continued. “I set out to beat all those guys. I vividly remember Mark Wahlberg, halfway through one of our training sessions, stopping and vomiting because I was nauseous from doing 360s.”
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The mother of two said her role in George Miller’s 2015 film “Mad Max: Fury Road” finally allowed her to catch up in the movie business as a viable action heroine.
Charlize Theron (left) and Tom Hardy in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’.
(Images from Warner Bros.)
“It wasn’t until ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ came my way; that experience and what happened with that movie really changed my trajectory for me,” he said of the post-apocalyptic desert racer, who earned a nomination for better image.
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“I don’t think I’ll ever recover from making that movie,” Theron joked about his now iconic role as Furiosa.
“There is a responsibility to hand over that witness, which is not just about you,” he added. “Listen, it is still disproportionate to our male counterparts, and we have to continue to pressure our industry to change that.” “
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“I want my two daughters to grow up and not even think that this is strange or that this is unusual or strange,” Theron reflected. “I want this to normalize.”
