Charlize Theron on Hanging Off a Helicopter in The Outdated Guard 2

Ask Charlize Theron what her favourite stunt to do in “The Outdated Guard 2” was and the Oscar-winner doesn’t even blink.

“The helicopter palms down,” she informed me at her latest Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Program Block Get together fundraiser in Los Angeles. “We did it in the direction of the top, and I used to be like, ‘Oh, my God, if I pull this off, I’m gonna be okay with by no means doing a stunt once more.’ That didn’t final lengthy, but it surely was intricate. It was psychological. The primary two weeks of it was sitting down with the pilot and constructing belief. It was sluggish strikes. However by the top, I used to be hanging off a helicopter, so who cares?”

As she was performing the scene, Theron mentioned, “I used to be hanging within the air, going, ‘I’m going to by no means have the ability to cease saying that I hung off a helicopter.’”

The Victoria Mahoney-directed film, the second installment of the Netflix adaptation of Greg Rucka’s comedian e-book, finds the immortals (Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Henry Golding) attempting to avoid wasting mankind from two of their very own Discord (franchise newcomer Uma Thurman) and Quỳnh (Veronica Ngô).

A 3rd film might be on the horizon with the second movie ending on a spectacular cliffhanger. In truth, producer Marc Evans informed me in Might 2023, “There’s an ending to No. 2 that type of calls for a No. 3, which makes me very comfortable.”

As for now, Theron, who additionally serves as a producer on the franchise, mentioned, “We’re going to take a break, take a little bit breather, after which we’ll come again and determine.”

Theron, who’s subsequent set to start out filming Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” additionally mentioned she plans to direct someday: “I’ve at all times type of been , however I’ve younger youngsters, and to direct could be very all consuming…I want my youngsters to get out of the home.”