Hollywood actress Uma Thurman has spoken up about her relationship with on-screen violence, a hallmark of some of her most iconic roles.
Despite her enduring association with the stylized brutality of ‘Kill Bill: Volume 1’ and ‘Kill Bill: Volume 2’, the actress has made it clear that her personal sensibilities diverge from the genre she helped define, reports ‘People’ magazine.
She told InStyle, “I actually don`t particularly like violence. Some people really like it; I don`t like it. When I see artful movement, I can enjoy violence and action because I`m blown away by it the way I would be if I saw an extraordinary dance performance”.
That perspective informed her decision to largely avoid action roles for nearly two decades. As she told the outlet, she developed a personal framework for evaluating such projects, asking whether the violence is “motivated”, “beautiful”, and “genuinely executed”.
As per ‘People’, it was only when a script met those criteria that she felt compelled to return. One such project is Pretty Lethal, a stylized thriller that blends ballet and horror.
The film, which also stars Maddie Ziegler, Lana Condor, and Iris Apatow, follows ballerinas stranded in a remote inn after their bus breaks down on the way to an elite dance competition. The baroque motel turns out to be a house of horrors, with Uma Thurman’s character out for revenge as a former ballerina herself with what she describes only as “a unique physical disability”.
The actress described the film as tonally unconventional. “Not your everyday streaming Amazon premiere movie. I looked at it, and I was like, How are they going to market this? It`s girly, and then it`s wild. It`s gruesome, funny, and powerful. It`s so over the top, it`s above the top”, she added.
Did you know?
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino had a falling out with Uma Thurman by the end of ‘Kill Bill’. They finally reconciled in 2017.
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