As filming has just gotten underway on the live action adaptation of the animated MTV series Aeon Flux star Charlize Theron has suffered the unspecified injury while doing her own stunts in a wire-hanging action sequence, the movie’s publicist, Jeanmarie Carrasco, told The Associated Press Tuesday.
“No cuts, no broken bones,” Carrasco said. “I think it was something less tangible than that. … Something vague and nagging.”
Obviously filming in Berlin has been put on hiatus for an undetermined amount of time until Theron’s injuries heal. “She did sustain an injury on the set. It’s a very physically demanding role,” said Theron publicist Amanda Silverman.
The film stars Theron in the lead role along with Frances McDormand, Johnny Lee Miller, Marton Csokas, Sophie Okonedo and Amelia Warner. The movie is set 400 years in the future, when disease has wiped out the majority of the earth’s population except for one walled, protected city-state, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. Theron plays the title role of Aeon Flux, the top operative in the underground “Monican” rebellion, led by the Handler, played by McDormand. When Aeon is sent on a mission to kill the government’s leader (Csokas), she uncovers a world of secrets, which makes her question everything she thought she knew.
