{"id":73833,"date":"2025-05-11T12:38:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=73833"},"modified":"2025-05-31T12:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T16:39:33","slug":"charlize-theron-praised-uma-thurman-as-a-trailblazer-in-action-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/charlize-theron-praised-uma-thurman-as-a-trailblazer-in-action-cinema\/73833\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlize Theron praised Uma Thurman as a trailblazer in action cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"185\" data-end=\"519\">As Charlize Theron kicks off the press tour for <em data-start=\"233\" data-end=\"250\">The Old Guard 2<\/em>, she took a heartfelt moment on <em data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"303\">Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> to spotlight her admiration for one of her personal heroes, Uma Thurman. Theron praised Thurman\u2019s iconic role as The Bride in <em data-start=\"430\" data-end=\"441\">Kill Bill<\/em> (2003\u20132004), insisting it deserved far more recognition \u2014 including an Oscar.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"521\" data-end=\"878\">Theron, who broke into the action genre with films like <em data-start=\"577\" data-end=\"587\">\u00c6on Flux<\/em>, <em data-start=\"589\" data-end=\"609\">Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em>, and <em data-start=\"615\" data-end=\"630\">Atomic Blonde<\/em>, called Thurman \u201cthe OG\u201d and \u201cthe sensei\u201d of women in action films. Reflecting on Thurman\u2019s groundbreaking work, Theron said, \u201cIt\u2019s usually men who get a lot of credit for these types of movies. What she did in that film was just so unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"880\" data-end=\"1156\">Excitedly anticipating sharing the screen with Thurman in the Netflix sequel, Theron admitted she was \u201cscared\u201d to face off with the legendary actress. \u201cSince I\u2019ve been in action movies, I\u2019ve always wanted to work with her and do an action sequence with her. Always,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1158\" data-end=\"1405\">The original <em data-start=\"1171\" data-end=\"1182\">Old Guard<\/em> (2020) was a Netflix hit, watched by 72 million households in its first month. The sequel introduces new cast members including Uma Thurman and Henry Golding, alongside returning stars like KiKi Layne and Chiwetel Ejiofor.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1407\" data-end=\"1603\">Theron\u2019s tribute not only underscores her respect for Thurman\u2019s trailblazing impact but also serves as a call for the action genre\u2014and Hollywood more broadly\u2014to give women the credit they deserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Charlize Theron kicks off the press tour for The Old Guard 2, she took a heartfelt moment on Jimmy\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":73834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[6921],"class_list":["post-73833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-charlize-theron"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}