“Watch this space,” she said, cracking her knuckles and walking back toward the sparring mat. “The vixen doesn’t ask for permission. She takes what’s hers.”
“People think they know me,” Mac said, wiping a sheen of sweat from her brow during a break at a Burbank stunt studio. “They see the smoky eye and the stilettos. But I grew up playing soccer and doing martial arts. I’ve always been physical. I’ve just never been allowed to punch anyone on camera before.” vixen abigail mac gets physical
With Vixen: Zero Cool already generating buzz for a potential trilogy, Mac is already eyeing her next challenge: a stage combat role in an off-Broadway revival of The Night of the Iguana . “Watch this space,” she said, cracking her knuckles
Mac is unbothered. “I’m 37 years old. I’ve been doing this for over a decade. If you aren’t evolving in this industry, you’re dying. I’m not retiring from anything; I’m just expanding. One day I’m the Vixen; the next day, I’m the hunter.” “They see the smoky eye and the stilettos
“The hardest part wasn’t the push-ups,” Mac admitted, flexing a bicep that now features a new tattoo of a fox (the literal translation of ‘vixen’). “It was the mental shift. In my previous career, my physicality was about pleasure and invitation. Here, it’s about threat and violence. Learning to switch that energy was harder than any roundhouse kick.”
That changes with Vixen: Zero Cool , a high-octane thriller from director Lexi Alexander ( Green Street Hooligans , Punisher: War Zone ). The film, set to premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival, casts Mac as a disgraced intelligence operative who uses her unique skill set—and her understanding of the dark web’s underground pleasure palaces—to hunt a human trafficker.