<p>Hollywood star Charlize Theron has revealed that she found it "insulting" when the makers of her 2003 heist movie "The Italian Job" made her train harder than her male co-stars.</p>.<p>Theron starred with Mark Wahlberg, Jason Statham, Edward Norton and Donald Sutherland in the remake of 1969 British movie.</p>.<p>Prior to starting filming for the project, the actor said she realised there was still "so much misconception around women and the genre".</p>.<p>"Even though in that film the action is really based on cars, we had to physically do a lot of that stuff. There was a real pressure to pull off those stunts with the actors...</p>.<p>"There was a very unfair process that went with that. I was the only woman with a bunch of guys and I remember vividly getting the schedule in our pre-production, and they had scheduled me for six weeks more hard training than any of the guys. It was just so insulting," Theron said during a Comic-Con at Home panel on Friday.</p>.<p>The 44-year-old actor said the whole situation "put a real fire" in her as she decided to take on the challenge head-on.</p>.<p>"I was like, 'All right, you guys want to play this game, let's go. I made it a point to outdrive all of those guys. I vividly remember Mark Wahlberg, halfway through one of our training sessions, pulling over and throwing up because he was so nauseous from doing 360s," she added.</p>.<p>Theron further said that the experience motivated her to take more action roles, a genre she has now excelled in with her work on movies like "Aeon Flux", "Mad Max: Fury Road", "Atomic Blonde", "Fate of the Furious" and most recently "The Old Guard".</p>.<p>"When I started my action career, it was so important to sell the authenticity of, 'Yes, I can fight and I can take this guy down and I can survive this.' There was such a level of wanting to prove that to audiences who for years said, 'No, a woman could never fight a guy that size'," the actor added.</p>
<p>Hollywood star Charlize Theron has revealed that she found it "insulting" when the makers of her 2003 heist movie "The Italian Job" made her train harder than her male co-stars.</p>.<p>Theron starred with Mark Wahlberg, Jason Statham, Edward Norton and Donald Sutherland in the remake of 1969 British movie.</p>.<p>Prior to starting filming for the project, the actor said she realised there was still "so much misconception around women and the genre".</p>.<p>"Even though in that film the action is really based on cars, we had to physically do a lot of that stuff. There was a real pressure to pull off those stunts with the actors...</p>.<p>"There was a very unfair process that went with that. I was the only woman with a bunch of guys and I remember vividly getting the schedule in our pre-production, and they had scheduled me for six weeks more hard training than any of the guys. It was just so insulting," Theron said during a Comic-Con at Home panel on Friday.</p>.<p>The 44-year-old actor said the whole situation "put a real fire" in her as she decided to take on the challenge head-on.</p>.<p>"I was like, 'All right, you guys want to play this game, let's go. I made it a point to outdrive all of those guys. I vividly remember Mark Wahlberg, halfway through one of our training sessions, pulling over and throwing up because he was so nauseous from doing 360s," she added.</p>.<p>Theron further said that the experience motivated her to take more action roles, a genre she has now excelled in with her work on movies like "Aeon Flux", "Mad Max: Fury Road", "Atomic Blonde", "Fate of the Furious" and most recently "The Old Guard".</p>.<p>"When I started my action career, it was so important to sell the authenticity of, 'Yes, I can fight and I can take this guy down and I can survive this.' There was such a level of wanting to prove that to audiences who for years said, 'No, a woman could never fight a guy that size'," the actor added.</p>