{"id":45334,"date":"2025-07-07T06:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/45334\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T06:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:50:14","slug":"studios-are-risk-averse-with-female-led-action-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/45334\/","title":{"rendered":"Studios Are Risk-Averse With Female-Led Action Pics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWith the release of The Old Guard 2<\/a> on Netflix ahead of the holiday weekend, star Charlize Theron<\/a> is reflecting on the state of female-led action movies in Hollywood and why she is no longer doing as many stunts as before.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a joint interview with the New York Times<\/a> opposite her co-star Uma Thurman<\/a>, the Mad Max: Fury Road actress said studios are less likely to give more chances to women who spearhead blockbusters, especially if the movie doesn\u2019t kill at the box office.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYeah, it\u2019s harder. That\u2019s known,\u201d she responded when asked by the newspaper if there\u2019s still a gender disparity in getting certain pics made. \u201cAction films with female leads don\u2019t get green lit as much as the ones with male leads. I think the thing that always frustrates me is the fact that guys will get a free ride. When women do this and the movie maybe doesn\u2019t hit fully, they don\u2019t necessarily get a chance again. With this, we were very aware that eyes were on us. It\u2019s not a risk that studios want to take, but they\u2019ll take it many times on the same guy who might have a string of action movies that did not do so well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA veteran of commercially successful action-packed cinema, including The Italian Job, Atomic Blonde and several Fast & Furious entries, Theron also opened up about doing less stunts in her career due to past severe injuries that required surgery.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI run into people and they\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, what happened to your arm?\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, I just had surgery.\u2019 And they\u2019re like, \u2018The last time I saw you, you had surgery!\u2019 I had an unfortunate injury on the first action attempt I ever did, for a bad movie called\u00a0Aeon Flux.\u00a0On day nine, I did a back handspring, and I didn\u2019t get enough height, and I landed on my neck on a concrete bridge. I had the last surgery on my neck 18 years ago. I\u2019ve had surgery on both elbows, my right shoulder, my thumb, carpal tunnel, fractures. A lot of fractures,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a result, Theron said she has \u201cno desire to learn how to fall down a flight of stairs\u201d nor perfect underwater acting.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s about time we actually recognize those performers,\u201d she said, alluding to the Oscars\u2019 addition of an Achievement in Stunt Design category<\/a> in 2027, \u201cbecause they are truly part of character building. Without them, there\u2019s a lot of stuff that would never be in a movie that I\u2019m in. I\u2019m never going to know how to fall down a flight of stairs, or jump on a moving vehicle. My adult woman brain is like, \u2018No thank you. I\u2019m OK not doing that.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThurman, for whom The Old Guard 2 marks a return to action in over two decades, agreed, saying she is \u201creally practical\u201d when it comes to avoiding taking on projects that require a lot of physicality, such as underwater elements.<\/p>\n

\n\tA followup to 2020\u2019s Gina Prince-Bythewood original based on Greg Rucka\u2019s comic book series about immortal mercenaries, Victoria Mahoney<\/a>\u2018s The Old Guard 2 follows Andy (Theron), no longer immortal, facing a formidable foe in Discord (Thurman). <\/p>\n

\n\tYou can read Deadline\u2019s full interview with Mahoney here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the release of The Old Guard 2 on Netflix ahead of the holiday weekend, star Charlize Theron…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,18981,171,18982,16979,67,132,68,35140],"class_list":{"0":"post-45334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-charlize-theron","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-the-old-guard-2","12":"tag-uma-thurman","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-victoria-mahoney"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114810625974339950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}