United Kingdom, June 25 -- Charlize Theron's daughter was reduced to tears by her mullet.

The 49-year-old actress adopted the hairstyle for her part in the new movie The Old Guard 2 and admits that her adopted daughters - Jackson, 12, and August, nine, - were far from impressed with the look.

Charlize told the chat show Late Night with Seth Meyers: "I have two girls, and they're very, very... they're mostly very girly. And they think of me as a princess. And they want Mom to look like a princess.

"But they came back from school. I was in my bathroom and I was getting it cut and it had already been coloured. And I just remember looking over and they both came into the room really excited, and then they just both froze. And they just wen...