Killer role

Charlize Theron’s MI6 agent lays waste to all before her in spy thriller Atomic Blonde, the action role for the latest Oscar winner. “I like who can struggle, women and win the struggle, out of their situations,” and get Portrait she tells Cara Buckl

Charlize Theron explains why she is drawn to tough women ahead of new spy thriller Atomic Blonde

Going into a lunchtime meeting in Los Angeles with Charlize Theron a few weeks ago, I wasn’t sure whether to feel excited or a little afraid. Theron is, of course,

a powerhouse actress who has old

Hollywood glamour and a mile-wide She range. has also played a

series of lethal ladies so convincingly

it is hard not to conclude a part

of her is tapped into a rich vein of

redirected rage. Obviously, being

an Oscar winner, she’s ace at her job.

But her slamdunk portrayals

of real and fictitious killers — the convicted

murderer Aileen Wuornos

from Monster, Imperator Furiosa

in Mad Max: Fury Road , Ravenna in Snow White and

the