Charlize Theron can make any genre – she has an Oscar to play a serial killer, and she has given outstanding comic activity Arrested Development. She is also a talented action -star, as seen in her appearances in Atomic blonde And the Fast & Furious moviesA series that judges the edge of science fiction.
But you don’t need to qualify anything when it comes to Theron’s affection for science fiction and fantasy. With The old guard 2 Coming to Netflix in July, and Christopher Nolan The odyssey Next the next summer, she still goes strong-but here’s the most memorable science fiction and fantasy roles of Theron so far, as well as some notable Cameans.
The devil’s lawyer (1997) and The astronaut’s wife (1999)
Theron exploded in the late 1990s and almost promptly played leading roles – including a couple of wives forced to deal with supernatural compromised husbands. In The devil’s lawyer (1997) She receives gasoline when she captures that her lawyer’s new boss is, well, the ultimate evil man; In The astronaut’s wife (1999), she has to deal with the similarly alarming revelation that her husband has returned from a spatial journey with an alien hiding in him.
Both films are centered around the male characters – in Pacino’s Campy Satan The devil’s lawyer It is especially legendary – but Theron still impresses while giving a friendly entry point for the audience.
The old guardian (2020)
A few years after the 2005 leave Æon fluxTheron made another go at superpowers in 2008 HancockPlaying a woman, who secretly hid her skills until her long-lost partner, interpreted by Will Smith, suddenly begins to destroy Los Angeles. It’s fun, but Theron is definitely the second banana. That does not happen in The old guardianwhose ensemble is highly led by Theron as an ancient warrior tasked regularly to save the world while grappling with the sudden loss of her immortality.
Crazy Max: Furious Way (2015)
Obviously. If this list were ranked, Theron’s fierce portrayal of Imperator Furiosa would be number one. It was nice to get a preface from the back history of the character, played in a younger incarnation of Anya Taylor-Joy, but we really didn’t need it. Fury Road stands alone, and Theron is the main reason.
The Orville (2017)
We love the Alien movies, even the sometimes impenetrable Prometheus (2012). But if we want to watch theron in space, we go straight to the season-one Orville Episode “Pria”, in which Theron guests are captain rescued from his floating ship. She is so distracted beautiful, it takes all some time to find that she secretly has some very sinister drawings on the headline ship.
Snowman and the hunter (2012)
Casting Theron as the mystical evil queen in a rough and rough reissue of the Snow girl A story is a brilliant idea; bringing her back for a sequel that leaves Snow White (2015 The Hunter: Winter War) It’s still a good idea, even if the second movie wasn’t that good. In 2022, she returned to that “bad fantasy queen”, with a little more arched humor, to play the dean of the school for evil in Netflix The school for good and evil.
Bonus cameras
In 2009, Theron had a brief but severe role in The wayPlaying a woman who chooses to end it instead of facing life in the post-apocalypse (you can’t really blame her after you spend some time in the particular post-apocalypse of that movie).
In 2022, she had a shocking little moment in The boys Season third premiere, playing “SIN” portraying “Nazi Bitch” Stormfront in the show’s in-universe blockbuster, Dawn of the seven.
But we have to give up on theron “Did that really happen?” appearance at the end of Dr. Strange in the multiverse of madnessalso released in 2022. In the middle credit scene, she appears as Purple Dress Witch CleaA character only of comic readers would immediately recognize, and put a doctor strangely in the Dark Dimension, telling him that he needs to repair the “raid” he caused. Will Clea ever return, or is this a dangerous thread that will remain hidden in the phase four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Even the wizard Supreme probably couldn’t tell you this moment.
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