It was just lived and she was living in that world in such an authentic way and Furiosa was the first time that I felt like I couldn’t even look at her as a character.
It was like the world opened up and the possibilities were just endless.
If that character can, in a small part, do what Ripley did for me as an actress, as a woman, that’s something that I’m incredibly proud of.
She owned that world.
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Charlize Theron: Evolution of a Badass - An Action Hero Career Retrospective | Comic-Con@Home 2020