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

Uma Thurman shares the reason for leaving the action genre behind after 'Kill Bill' — she's only making her return with 'The Old Guard 2.'

Legacy has been top of mind for Uma Thurman: It’s the primary reason she all but entirely avoided the action genre since “Kill Vill Vol. It took a particularly special film to get Thurman out of action-movie retirement, she said on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” June 17. That meant, post-“Kill Bill,” Thurman appeared in the musical “The Producers,” rom-coms like “Playing for Keeps,” and auteur projects such as Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac” and “The House that Jack Built” and Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada!” But never really action again, until “The Old Guard 2.” The first movie, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and starring Charlize Theron, who returns for the sequel, impressed Thurman with its “depth” and by being “quite moving.” In fact, she had such regard for Theron’s work on that film that when Fallon asked her if being in this movie gave Thurman an opportunity to “show everyone how it’s done,” she had a pointed response.

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