"Theron is sipping kombucha. The ostensible reason for our conversation, via video call this winter afternoon, is to discuss 2026. In the film Apex the Academy Award-winning actor will play Sasha, a rock climber who is menaced, in the badlands of Australia, by two unrelenting forces: the wily hunter character (Taron Egerton) and her own enormous grief. Sasha is a modern woman: stubborn, powerful, individualistic, solitary."
"She is a variant of the characters that Theron has found herself drawn to in this phase of her career, women exacting their power through their physicality, carving out complex identities and desires outside the gendered villain/hero binary. It was no surprise to learn that she will be the one to play Circe in Christopher Nolan's interpretation of the Homeric epic The Odyssey, due out this summer. Circe is the most elastic of our mythological women. The depictions in epic poetry, in art, in revisionist novels, run the gamut."
Charlize Theron will play Sasha in Apex, a rock climber menaced in Australia's badlands by a wily hunter and by her own enormous grief. Sasha is stubborn, powerful, individualistic and solitary, and exemplifies Theron's recent attraction to physically exacting roles that carve out complex identities beyond villain/hero binaries. Theron is set to play Circe in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, and Circe is depicted as elastic, ranging from seductress to wounded, resourceful strategist. Theron shifts attention to Odysseus, calling the project "really Matt Damon's movie" and predicting he will "blow people away." From early years in South Africa Theron knew she wanted to be a storyteller; acting became her vessel for narrative.
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