About 80 minutes into “The Old Guard 2,” I found myself wondering how the filmmakers were going to wrap things up. There were a lot of threads dangling with Charlize Theron’

This article contains details of Old Guard 2, which debuted on Netflix on July 2. “One day, you’ll understand, every minute is a step toward death,” Uma Thurman’s vengeful Discord says in Netflix’s long-awaited and much-delayed The Old Guard 2.

Plus, Victoria Mahoney reveals that the epic swordfight between Thurman and Charlize Theron was almost just "an amuse-bouche."Key PointsThe Old Guard 2 director Victoria Mahoney talks about wanting to cast Uma Thurman so bad that she shared "secret texts in the night" with the star's manager.