Charlize Theron hopes her kids feel proud of her movie stunts
The Hollywood actress is mother to daughters Jackson, 12, and August, nine, and she's revealed her girls don't seem to be impressed by her film career but she hopes one day they will be able to look back at her work and feel proud.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: "They're kids. They're doing exactly what they're supposed to do. I don't think anybody's kids really feel that way about their parents, no matter what they do. And they're teenagers now.
"So, even if they were [impressed], they would never show it. But I want to believe that we'll actually sit down one day when they're old enough to have a glass of wine, and they'll say: 'You know what, Mom? It was pretty badass when you were 50 and you were hanging off that helicopter. We never gave you your props'."
Charlize was referring to a stunt featured in her new Netflix film The Old Guard 2 in which she is seen hanging from the side of a helicopter in flight, and the actress admits it was a tough scene to film but it felt very safe.
She added to the publication: "I haven't spent a lot of time on helicopters; I'm not crazy about them either. It just came out of the creative process and wanting to make that third-act set piece be as big as we all wanted it to be ...
"Fred North, who's a legend in the business and does all the helicopter action work in every movie, then came on board. And I asked him ... 'How can we do it practically and safely so that it feels like you haven't seen this before in a movie?'
"And he said to us: 'I don't know why, but I've never done this with an actor. [It] is actually incredibly safe if we do it the right way. It will look great, and you can do it all practically with a real helicopter.'
"So he was really the one that threw this idea at us, and that's where it originated."
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