Theron left apartheid South Africa after winning a modeling contest at 16, though the catwalk held little appeal. Instead, the Joffrey-trained ballerina settled in L.A. in the mid-1990s where she famously landed a manager who’d overheard her arguing with the teller at a bank. In the nearly three decades since, the 47-year-old “broad” — her descriptor, not mine — has been in some 50 films, from, which solidified her status as the action genre’s biggest female star.
, where I was hanging off the side of a helicopter. I so wish that was the story. Instead, it was during training. I was learning to sword fight. And the other one, which comes up in profiles about you, too, is that you curse like a sailor and generally like to have fun. I believe it was Seth Rogen who said you’re “an extraordinary hang.”
I didn’t know anything, and so many things could have gone wrong. But my mom’s always like, “Given our circumstances and the opportunities I thought that you could have there, I was willing to take the risk.” And not that I needed this to be a storyteller, but I do think that my family circumstances almost forced me to escape [into stories] to survive. A lot of people went to theater school; I came home from school and had to really imagine myself out of the home that I was living in.
Do you find yourself consciously trying to create on-set environments that are different than the productions you came up on? You’ve referenced having bronchitis a few times. It’s funny, I’ve been watching a lot of the old interviews you did around various movies and the number of times …Oh my God, that’s so embarrassing. But, yeah, I never get sick on a movie. Never. It’s like my body goes, “Nope, you can’t.” And then [once we’ve wrapped] I get a cough or full-blown bronchitis or I’m in a cast. Anybody who knows me is like, “Oh, you must be done.
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CharlizeAfrica She is the most underrated A-lister. She deserves her second Oscar for the Furiosa role and more compensations & recognitions for the rib, tooth and bones she broke in all those action films where she did her own stunts.
Charlize Theron has been in some 50 films, from Monster, which earned her an Academy Award, to MadMax: Fury Road, which solidified her status as action’s biggest female star. She’s also a bona fide producer, responsible for an onslaught of TV and film
She is the most underrated A-lister. She deserves her second Oscar for the Furiosa role and more compensations & recognitions for the rib, tooth and bones she broke in all those action films where she did her own stunts.
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CharlizeAfrica what? never heard her called an enigma. Let remove all th award ceremonies built around your indulged profession.