Charlize Theron plays the lead role of immortal soldier Andromache in Netflix’s adaptation of Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez’s The Old Guard, and now Vanity Fair has the first look at Theron in the role, along with some of her co-stars.
“It was important to feel the weight of thousands and thousands of years on her,” Theron told Vanity Fair about her own lead character. “The worst part for her is just feeling like she’s not doing anything. So what is the point, you know? She’s lost faith, not just in herself but in humanity. I think a lot of people can relate to that at this moment in time. We go through periods in life where we just look at the world and go, Oh, my God… You just feel like you’re pushing a rock up a mountain.”
“This is an elite, small army of people with a great set of abilities. They don’t die easily,” Theron went on to explain of the film’s cast of undying heroes, seen in the photos.
You can see all the photos in Vanity Fair‘s Twitter thread right here:
#TheOldGuard First Look: Her name is Andromache of Scythia. She was born thousands of years ago, and has died hundreds of times.
She inspired one of Euripides’ few surviving plays, & her name literally means “battler of men.”
But she goes by “Andy” now. pic.twitter.com/aLSVYLRNwJ
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) May 7, 2020
The Old Guard releases July 10 on Netflix.