Uma Thurman Shares the Reason Why She Left the Action Genre Behind After ‘Kill Bill’

Legacy has been apical of mind for Uma Thurman: It’s nan superior logic she each but wholly avoided nan action genre since “Kill Vill Vol. 2” came retired successful 2004.

That’s astir to alteration pinch her quality successful Netflix’s “The Old Guard 2,” arsenic nan villain Discord. It took a peculiarly typical film to get Thurman retired of action-movie retirement, she said connected “The Tonight Show pinch Jimmy Fallon” June 17.

“I ne'er really followed ‘Kill Bill‘ up pinch action because I didn’t benignant of want to beryllium successful a full bunch of ‘B’ action movies,” Thurman said. “When you do ‘Kill Bill,’ you ne'er extremity proceeding about, you know, it’s like, ‘Oh, sewage to beryllium very observant astir what I do next.’ So I did different stuff.”

That meant, post-“Kill Bill,” Thurman appeared successful nan philharmonic “The Producers,” rom-coms for illustration “Playing for Keeps,” and auteur projects specified arsenic Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac” and “The House that Jack Built” and Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada!” But ne'er really action again, until “The Old Guard 2.” The first movie, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and starring Charlize Theron, who returns for nan sequel, impressed Thurman pinch its “depth” and by being “quite moving.” In fact, she had specified respect for Theron’s activity connected that movie that erstwhile Fallon asked her if being successful this movie gave Thurman an opportunity to “show everyone really it’s done,” she had a pointed response.

“I didn’t deliberation I was going to show anybody really it’s done aft I saw Charlize successful ‘Old Guard 1,'” Thurman said. “This 1 seemed different [from different action movies she was offered] because successful ‘Old Guard 1’ Charlize was conscionable truthful epic successful it. And truthful I thought, ‘Well, I could spell do this for her successful that. Where she’s benignant of taking nan genre there. I’ll spell support her and conflict her and conflict her out.'”

“Putting her toe” into nan action genre again, arsenic she put it, didn’t travel rather arsenic easy to Thurman arsenic 1 mightiness person thought, successful portion because she came aboard nan task precocious and didn’t person clip for training beforehand.

“Oh, if only I could person trained,” she said. “No, I came connected to do it benignant of astatine nan end. So I had nary training. I was like, ‘Oh yeah, a sword. I deliberation I clasp it for illustration this.'”

Sounds for illustration personification needs a return sojourn to Hattori Hanzo.