Charlize Theron : Aeon Flux Movie star Injury Update

Yes, she’s doing Aeon Flux. She was shooting in Berlin. She’d been practicing for three months and it was like back flips, somersaults, on trampolines. Going one, two, three, on the wires. Then you put on a costume with platform heels. No matter how much training you do, the heels became very slippery after doing it so many times in a day. She slipped in the middle. Her disc went very close to her spinal cord. The doctors were like, one millimeter, that’s all it was from another life.

So no more stunts for her, I forbid it. (Laughs) I know her, she’ll be like, "I’m fine" in six weeks and "ready to go". All of us are like no, you have to come down. Let the stunt people do that. That’s their job and they’re professionals. That’s what they get paid for. More and more actors, since The Matrix style of shooting, are asked to do crazy stuff. It surprises me. Now the whole production is shut down. It doesn’t make sense, business wise. Maybe they’ve learned their lesson."

Source: Latino Review