Charlize Theron gets stabbed in gripping new trailer for Netflix’s upcoming film The Old Guard

Charlize Theron is back to fighting and running, as she portrays a mercenary in Netflix’s upcoming film The Old Guard.  

In a new trailer for the action-packed superhero flick, the veteran 44-year-old Oscar winner sported a brunette bob and an all-black ensemble, as she held a hostage in the truck of her car. 

As her character, Andy, attempts to forcibly add Nile (Kiki Layne) to their tight-knit team of fighters, the new recruit kicks her way out of the vehicle, but winds up getting the wind knocked out of her. 

‘You got questions kid, I get it. I need you to get back into the car please,’ Andy says with an icy tone in the middle of an isolated desert.  

Nile replies in awe, ‘This isn’t’ real.’ 

‘You haven’t figured this out yet? You can’t die. Get up!’ Andy yells, while pulling her off the ground. 

In a desperate attempt to flee, Nile aggressively stabs her kidnapper, but Andy looks more annoyed than physically hurt by their altercation. 

‘Can you please not do that again,’ Andy said, while pulling the blade out of her shoulder with a wince, prompting Nile to hurl. 

While speaking on the phone with one of her superiors, Andy commends Nile’s budding abilities and joked, ‘She stabbed me, so I think she has potential.’   

As Nile seeks answers, the covert group’s members, who all have the mysterious inability to die, reveal they have  been fighting to protect the mortal world for centuries. 

‘So, how old are you,’ she asked over dinner. 

A male solider replied, ‘We met in the Crusades.’ 

‘The Crusades?’ Nile asks with an astonished look, as they reveal they’ve fought ‘thousands of battles side by side.’ 

As she processes the information, she says aloud, ‘So, we really never die.’

Andy replies, ‘Nothing that lives, lives forever.’  

‘One day your wounds never heal up anymore, we don’t know when,’ Andy explains. 

In another scene later, Nile sticks her hand in a fire and squirms in pain. 

One of the soldiers reminds her, ‘Just because we keep living doesn’t mean we stop hurting.’ 

As their secret abilities are unearthed, they appear to fight to keep their freedom. 

They are described as ‘individuals’ that are ‘extremely resist to capture.’ 

Nile says she can’t do this people she has ‘people that love me,’ but the others point out that everyone around her is ‘going to grow old and die.’ 

‘You will lose everyone you’ve ever loved,’ a man tells her. 

To comfort Nile tells her she is ‘one of us now,’ as the trailer teases a number of gripping action sequences and stunts with hand guns. 

Gina Prince-Bythewood directs from the comic book of the same name, which is set to be released to Netflix on July 10. 

The movie also stars Marwan Kenzari as Joe (Yusuf Al-Kaysani), Matthias Schoenaerts as Booker (Sebastian le Livre), Luca Marinelli as Nicky (Nicolo di Genova), Chiwetel Ejiofor as Copley, Harry Melling and Veronica Ngo. 

Theron recently told Vanity Fair of the role: ‘From the first moment I read [Greg] Rucka’s graphic novel, I felt like there was great potential to make this thing feel really very relevant and have it ask some real questions about humanity.

‘Is what we’re doing enough? Is what we’re doing actually changing anything? Are we making [things] better, or are we making the world worse?’

The action star is also gearing up for upcoming roles in other franchises, including F9 and Atomic Blonde 2.

Atomic Blonde stuntman Sam Hargrave recently told The Guardian: ‘Some of the stuff she did, her grit and determination, was incredible.’

Theron is also staying busy with philanthropy, recently launching Together For Her, a campaign to fight domestic violence amid COVID-19.