Charlize Theron visited Howard Stern’s radio show to promote her new action movie, The Old Guard, and the discussion turned to the topic of women fighting on film. Theron, who shares the same stunt trainer as Keanu Reeves, has earned respect from the stunt community and her directors for her dedication to stunt work. David Leitch, who directed Atomic Blonde, told Harper’s Bazaar, “She’s in the top one percentile of actors to do their own action. She’s f—— badass.”
When Stern asked where she got her inspiration for fight work, Theron said, “At night I’ll go online to watch fighters or watch people fight and you always come across that odd Seagal video of him ‘fighting’ in Japan, but he really isn’t.