The actress, 47, told that she quickly realized the sci-fi action movie, directed by Karyn Kusama, “was going to be a f—ing flop,” which led her to take a guest role in the sitcom Arrested Development shortly after.
Asked how she reacts in an on-set situation where she realizes a movie “isn’t working,” Theron told the outlet she will “fight until the bitter end.”
Aeon Flux also starred Sophie Okonedo, Frances McDormand, Pete Postlethwaite, Marton Csokas and Jonny Lee Miller.
Asked about her penchant for making action films, Theron told THR she understands “the idea of wanting to tell an emotional story through physicality.”
“This is going to sound f—ed up, but the narrative responsibility that I feel physically when I do these movies almost weighs heavier on me than when I do a [2019’s Bombshell],” she said. “There’s an easier storytelling aspect to that than sometimes there is to, ‘Oh, it’s [based on] a graphic novel about immortals,’ ” like her 2020 film The Old Guard.
“But it’s also not being tough for the sake of being tough,” she added. “And, again, I like the backbreaking part. I like being in the gym for eight hours.”
“We just wrapped the sequel to Old Guard, where I was hanging off the side of a helicopter,” she said. “I so wish that was the story. Instead, it was during training. I was learning to sword fight.”
