Charlize Theron gave “1,000 percent of herself” to the action scenes in The Old Guard 2.
The 49-year-old actress teamed up with director Victoria Mahoney to make The Old Guard 2, who praised the actress’s work ethic.
The director told Deadline, “The thing about Charlize is, she comes hard, and she dedicates 1,000 percent of herself to every sequence, whether it’s trauma or action, and it’s visible.
“People know that, for many years we’ve all seen it, and we’ve witnessed it. But there is something really electrifying to see it up close in person, and she doesn’t leave anything on the field, as we say,” she added.
Victoria also suggested that the Oscar-winning star actually enhanced the level of The Old Guard 2.
“I worked in pre-production for months with our fight choreographer, Georgi Manchev to make certain that the action throughout the movie had some sense of emotion,” she explained.
The director continued, “Obviously, and specifically the alley fight between Charlize’s Andromache character and Veronica Van’s Quynh character. It was vital that it had levels and layers and grounding in the heart, and this is why I mention this, I was excited when Georgi told me that Charlize was really moved the first time they auditioned the alley fight for her.”
“Because, you know, it isn’t easy to make audiences feel when two people are fighting. My belief is, if audiences don’t feel anything in a fight scene, then what are we doing?” Victoria added.
“So, what happens when someone like Charlize comes hard like that to any role is that everyone on the ground, you know, crew rises up to meet her and help make her dreams come true. And I’m really proud of what we all accomplished, and, let me tell you, Charlize is the engine on the Old Guard franchise – without a doubt,” the director for The Old Guard 2 concluded as she spoke of Charlize Theron.
