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Hollywood catches up to director Gina Prince-Bythewood

by AP Film Writer
| July 10, 2020 12:03 AM

Gina Prince-Bythewood knows what good fighting looks like. The “Love & Basketball” director has been an athlete her entire life, but she also just loves action movies. So when she started dreaming up the template for a bare-knuckle clash between Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne in the new Netflix film “The Old Guard,” her bar was high: the bathroom fight from “Mission: Impossible—Fallout.”

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