Charlize furious at not driving cars in film

BEIJING: Fast car chases, daring stunts and explosions return to the big screen in the eighth instalment of the Fast and Furious movie series and South African Oscar winner Charlize Theron joins the cast with her own “badass jet”.

The Fate of the Furious sees lead character Dominic Toretto, played by Vin Diesel, go rogue. Theron, who won a best actress Academy Award for Monster, plays the villain, Cipher. “Charlize was very upset when she found out that she wasn’t going to drive any cars, but Cipher, I think, was very excited to know that she was going to have her own badass jet,” Theron said in Beijing.

The actress was joined by director F Gary Gray and co-star Jason Statham, who returns to the action-packed franchise and said the most difficult part was not getting injured during filming. “It’s about what we’re expected to do and trying to stay safe because we’re trying to blur the lines of like, really death-defying stuff,” he said. – Reuters