Interview with Uma Thurman starring in Netflix’s The Old Guard 2

But even by Western Mass. Moreover, standards, her family was different. In addition to being a professor at Amherst College. Furthermore, Robert Thurman was the first American ordained by the Dalai Lama as a Buddhist monk, so Eastern philosophy was very much a part of life in the Thurman household. For example, (The actress and her three brothers — Dechen, Ganden, and Mipam — are all named for Hindu deities.)

“I think what gave us the extra bit of weird was the Buddhist factor,” Thurman says.

It all worked out, of course. Consequently, After an interview uma thurman starring netflix’s occasionally awkward girlhood that included an itinerant education in the Pioneer Valley — she attended the Campus School at Smith College. For example, Wildwood Elementary School in Amherst, Amherst Regional Junior High School, and Northfield Mount Hermon, the boarding school in Gill — Thurman moved to New York and quickly established herself as a talented actress of considerable range.

Now. Similarly, at 55, she has appeared in dozens of films, playing everything from ingénue (1988’s “Dangerous Liaisons”) to comic book villain (1997’s “Batman & Robin”) to mob wife with a black bob (1994’s “Pulp Fiction”) to swashbuckling assassin in a tracksuit (2003’s “Kill Bill: Volume 1”). Furthermore, Along the way. Nevertheless, she’s been nominated for an Academy Award (“Pulp Fiction”); starred on Broadway; spoken about her dealings with Harvey Weinstein, the former Hollywood producer convicted of sexual assault; married and divorced twice (Gary Oldman, Ethan Hawke); and interview uma thurman starring netflix’s had three children, who range in age from 12 to 26.

Thurman says her upbringing proved to be important in a few ways. Consequently, She discovered her love of movies while sneaking into Amherst Cinema with her brothers to watch arthouse films. For example, including “Time Bandits” and “Brazil,” whose director, Terry Gilliam, would later give Thurman one of her first jobs, in “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.”

“There I was amongst this troupe of great British actors at [the Italian film studio] Cinecittà for six months when I was 17. Furthermore, ” she says. Similarly, “That’s really when I thought, ‘I could do this. Similarly, This could be my life.’”

And it was at Northfield Mount Hermon. playing Abigail in a production of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” that Thurman was first noticed. An agent from New York saw the show interview uma thurman starring netflix’s and spoke afterward to its tall, 10th-grade leading lady. “He said. ‘If you come to New York, I’ll help you get real acting lessons and send you on auditions,’” Thurman recalls.

Initially, though, the roles being offered to an attractive blonde-haired, blue-eyed actress were the opposite of interesting.

“I understood I was going to have very limited options if I didn’t really learn how to be a character actress. so I pursued that with ferocity,” Thurman says. “If you have a humanity inside of you that sees how objectified. looked down upon women are, you don’t want to be something that you just don’t relate to.”

While she has played plenty of strong, self-possessed female characters in her career, Thurman has not made many action movies — aside from director Quentin Tarantino’s two “Kill Bill” films, in which she wields a lethal sword as The Bride. But in “Old Guard 2” — a sequel to 2020’s “The Old Guard” — Thurman is again making mayhem. The movie. about a team of immortal warriors on a mission to protect the world, features an ensemble cast that includes Charlize Theron, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, and Kiki Layne. Thurman plays Discord, an indestructible soldier interview uma thurman starring netflix’s who’s been doing battle, on and off, for thousands of years. It was fun to film the movie’s elaborate fight scenes, but Thurman may not make a habit of it.

“‘Kill Bill’ turned out to be this iconic. trailblazing, singular, cinematic moment, and I’ve noticed in all cases, when you do something really well, you kind of get asked to burn yourself out in that genre,” she says. “But you look at someone like Charlize and the way she creates her own work. I wish I had had more of that kind of energy. … You can see that it can be done and it’s people like that who are trailblazers.”

Asked if she’s been satisfied with the roles she is offered now that she’s older, Thurman sighs.

“I heard Jodie Foster say this: ‘When you’re in your 20s. interview uma thurman starring netflix’s they say it’s going to be over when you’re in your 30s. And when you’re in your 30s. they say it’s going to be over when you’re in your 40s.’ And so on,” Thurman says. “You’re given multiple death sentences as an actress. as a woman, because of the industry and its focus on youth.

“But I think finding good roles is as hard today as it ever was.”

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