Filmography | The Italian Job (2003)
Character Stella Bridger
Directed By F. Gary Gray
Written By Troy Kennedy-Martin (1969 screenplay), Donna Powers, Wayne Powers (screenplay)
Cast Mark Wahlberg, Jason Statham, Seth Green, Mos Def, Edward Norton,
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
MPAA Rating PG-13 (for violence and some language)
Official Synopsis
The plan was flawless... the job was executed perfectly... the escape was clean. The only threat mastermind thief Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) never saw coming was from a member of his own crew. After pulling off an amazing gold bullion heist from a heavily guarded palazzo in Venice, Italy, Charlie and his gang -- inside man Steve (Edward Norton), computer genius Lyle (Seth Green), wheelman Handsome Rob (Jason Statham), explosives expert Left-Ear (Mos Def) and veteran safecracker John Bridger (Donald Sutherland) -- can't believe it when one of them turns out to be a double-crosser. Now the job isn't about the payoff, it's about payback!
Enter Stella (Charlize Theron), a beautiful nerves-of-steel safecracker, who joins Charlie and his former gang when they follow the backstabber to California, where they plan to re-steal the gold by tapping into Los Angeles' traffic control system, manipulating signals and creating one of the biggest traffic jams in L.A. history!
A contemporary update of Paramount's 1969 classic, "The Italian Job" features the ever-popular MINI Cooper in state-of-the-art chase scenes down Hollywood's Walk of Fame, through the Metro Rail tunnels and down narrow escape routes only the MINI can go. Full of twists, turns and exciting stunts with armored cars, motorcycles and helicopters, this action-packed thrill-ride takes audiences on wild curves they'll never see coming.
Quotes from Charlize
"Mark Wahlberg called me up and said, 'Come and do The Italian Job with me. We're going to have a great time.' And I was like, 'Well, there's nothing-going on. It's Mark Wahlberg, who I love dearly. It's a caper movie. It's shooting in L.A. It's like nothing I've done before. I'll go and do it.' So I did--and I did have a great time on it--but it's the kind of movie that doesn't necessarily challenge you every day. The challenge was 'Oh, great, we get to do our own stunts. I'll take that. Anything.'"
Quotes from Others on Charlize
"She was certainly the most gung ho of all the cast members to get behind the wheel and she had some of the more challenging stunts to do, especially the sequence in the garage where we're preparing to do the first heist that goes awry, but she's definitely the daredevil of the group." - Mark Wahlberg
