Over the past couple years, mainly off the back of the
now-legendary Mad Max: Fury Road, Charlize Theron has become the female action
icon that, honestly, we need right
now. I know that this might sound a bit reactionary after the pleasant success
of Wonder Woman, and especially in light of certain… comments that have been made
about it recently, but we don’t really have a lot of bankable female action heroes
right now. Not to say that they just don’t exist (hell, I’ve been singing
Scarlett Johansson’s praises for a while now) but I specify “bankable” because
money talks and we’re still in this weird position of hesitance in letting
these actors get their fair share. So, in light of another widely-popular
action reinvention in the form of the John Wick movies, Theron tapped Wick
co-director David Leitch to give her a fighting chance. Does that chance pay
off?
