Atomic Blonde, on its surface, looks like a film about action choreography. There's a plot, definitely, but the style prevails, just like the first 60 seconds of the recently released restricted trailer proved. That style expanded into the sex scenes, also teased in the restricted trailer, between Charlize Theron and costar Sofia Boutella, who plays a French spy. Their chemistry onscreen, according to Theron, didn't take all that much effort.
"Seducing her? It's very easy, she's gorgeous!" Theron said at a panel at SXSW Sunday, ET Online reports. "She was just great. She was the only actress that we looked at. She came over, she hung out with me and [director David Leitch] and there was something about her that was so genuinely innocent and yet incredibly strong, that she was really perfect for the film."
Speaking of action movie choreography :"She's a dancer, I'm a dancer," Theron said. "So, we're a little bit like—you know dancers are like, 'What? Being naked is nothing.' We just wanted it to be real and cool."
Theron has a long career playing strong action heroes (or villains), the most recently in Mad Max: Fury Road and The Fate and the Furious (out in April). She keeps coming back to these roles, hence her turn working with John Wick and upcoming Deadpool 2 director David Leitch. "I think great strength comes from women who can be vulnerable and look at their weaknesses and find their strengths from that. I think you almost have to be incredibly vulnerable and weak in order to find strength, to survive something," she said. She looks to survive a hell of a lot in Atomic Blonde.
