Charlize Theron endured torn thumb ligament filming The Old Guard

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Charlize Theron ignored the pain of a torn ligament in her thumb to complete filming on her latest movie.The Atomic Blonde star suffered the nasty injury while pulling off an action sequence with a stuntman, but she had no idea how seriously she had been hurt and insisted on 'pressing on' to keep cameras rolling.Fight coordinator Danny Hernandez has revealed the Oscar winner was a tough woman on the set of superhero flick The Old Guard, in which Theron portrayed the leader of a group of immortal mercenaries."She hurt a couple of things during shooting, including her elbow in one of the fight sequences, and her knee would give her some trouble, but her thumb was the big one," he told Insider.com."It definitely was from blocking a punch,".