The actress explains why she loves "the backbreaking part" of her job but offers some choice words (154 of them, in fact) for the pretenses of stardom: "Let’s break down all the walls so that we can just get down to business."
The Hollywood Reporter: Charlize Theron: “I Don’t Need to Be an Enigma
by Anonymous | reply 112 | December 29, 2022 9:12 PM |
"the backbreaking part" that takes a LOT of nerve
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 7, 2022 2:43 PM |
Lesbian
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 7, 2022 2:44 PM |
Cunt
by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 7, 2022 2:49 PM |
She aged out to witch roles.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 7, 2022 2:51 PM |
Great beauty, good actress, big asshole.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 7, 2022 3:53 PM |
When was Charlize an enigma? She's always been a racist bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 8, 2022 4:00 AM |
She's humorless and just not very likable.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 8, 2022 4:11 AM |
I still think she pulled the trigger.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 8, 2022 5:18 AM |
I would rock her world.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 8, 2022 6:40 AM |
Isn't she just a total raging cunt?
Most white South Africans are.
But they sure are beautiful, though.
Total cunts, but you can't help but like them. Because they are so beautiful.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 8, 2022 6:43 AM |
They're beautiful because of their Dutch ancestry. You can find the same type of beauties in the Netherlands minus the S African assholism.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 8, 2022 7:35 AM |
She’s very beautiful but what’s up with those ugly ass jeans?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 8, 2022 7:42 AM |
She's a stunning beauty, and will always get a free pass for everything, unlike some morbidly obese, envious OCD pensioners around here.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 8, 2022 7:43 AM |
What’s enigmatic about her? She’s hardly a recluse.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 8, 2022 8:11 AM |
The jeans are hideous, R12. Are we going back to acid wash?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 8, 2022 8:40 AM |
She has all the charm of rubbing rough sandpaper on your balls.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 8, 2022 3:20 PM |
Charlize went to the surgeon and asked for the Saffron Burrows.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 8, 2022 3:24 PM |
She is a beauty and her performance in Young Adult was one of the best of the decade for me. Her win for Young Adult was probably one of the most deserved in the last 40 years of Best Actress.
No idea why she hitched her wagon to gross Sean Penn
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 8, 2022 4:04 PM |
I see she's airing out her new face, which isn't good. She looks like a hag in those photos. Which she sort of deserves, the asshole.
Her lesbian is showing in those clothes
by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 8, 2022 4:43 PM |
You know, that’s actually a great interview. She’s an interesting person and certainly a good actress… and there’s not a single thing she says in it that would be objectionable to a rational person.
I came away from it admiring her.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 8, 2022 4:48 PM |
She's ice cold. Not a hint of warmth ever.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 8, 2022 4:58 PM |
Sorry, I meant her Oscar win for Monster
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 8, 2022 5:01 PM |
I prefer her performance in Young adult. It was really a difficult role and a lesser actress wouldn’t have been able to see it through to the end.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 8, 2022 8:11 PM |
How many people has she murdered?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 8, 2022 8:55 PM |
Why has she gone brunette?
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 8, 2022 10:13 PM |
Getting nominated for Young Adult was like Kate Hudson getting nominated for Almost Famous. It's not acting when you're the character, basically.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 8, 2022 10:46 PM |
Charlize Theron is the female Sean Penn.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 8, 2022 11:35 PM |
I agree R8. Momma took the fall for that one.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 9, 2022 12:10 AM |
R29, no. What international, deeply delicate conflict has she trounced into loudly announcing her importance without a single hour of education or experience beyond playing a cartoon version of Harvey Milk? Carrying her Oscar.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 9, 2022 12:13 AM |
She looks like Courteney Cox here
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 9, 2022 12:19 AM |
33 fucks or variations (fucking) in the interview. Stay classy Charlize!
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 9, 2022 12:22 AM |
Enigma? The polite term is African American.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 9, 2022 12:25 AM |
I'm breaking down walls fucker!
by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 9, 2022 12:25 AM |
She spends 8 hours a day at the gym? She is a DL legend.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 9, 2022 12:27 AM |
R36 maybe it has a canteen.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 9, 2022 12:51 AM |
People want to make her out to be a bitch but I don’t see that. Butch, yes, and perhaps a latent lesbian but not a hateful bitch like she is portrayed on here.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 9, 2022 1:19 AM |
Gorgeous and smart-I fucking love her.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 9, 2022 1:39 AM |
I do too R39.
Just read the interview. She comes across whip smart. Yeah, she's a big cold. It just makes her a little more interesting than most try-hard, needy actresses.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 9, 2022 1:55 AM |
In a dysfunctional family, vulgarity increases the tension until the trick is performed. This is her Nth interview and she kept on-message the entire time.
I love her cheesy movies - Hancock, Atomic Blonde - but I couldn’t sit through Monster or YA.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 9, 2022 2:25 AM |
How is she “smart” - because she’s a bitch?
by Anonymous | reply 42 | December 9, 2022 8:20 AM |
That’s what Madonna tried to tell us, and Princess Anne.
Princess Anne is legitimately stupid.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 9, 2022 2:51 PM |
I love that she wants to breakdown the walls of stardom so that we can get down to business and work.
I’m sure all of the PAs that instructed not to talk to her unless necessary share in that wall- breaking
by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 9, 2022 2:57 PM |
The dark hair is harsh and aging. Ann Miller time.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 9, 2022 3:57 PM |
I've read magazine interviews of her and even when they're fawning all over her you can tell she's a bitch. Example: some fashion mag, maybe Vogue. They are doing the shoot and have to wait around while the crew covers everything with a tarp as an unexpected rain hits. The interviewer says nervously and jokingly, "how about this rain huh?" Her response: "don't they have people to anticipate this?" Just pure bitchery.
And this was after said interviewer gushed about how gorgeous and talented and blah blah blah she was.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 9, 2022 6:09 PM |
She’s beautiful and stand-offish so moron celebrity journalists don’t realise they’re intimidated by her beauty and disinterest in pleasing them, so they attribute it to intellect. That’s not to say she’s not intelligent, but they’re simply bedazzled.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 9, 2022 10:02 PM |
Pathological killer vibe.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 9, 2022 10:19 PM |
I thought she would end up a good actress but she has proven to be mediocre and plastic. Those action movies she did were lifeless.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 9, 2022 11:27 PM |
R49 i'd say Mad Max was the complete opposite of lifeless.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | December 10, 2022 1:16 AM |
R47 Yes, she's a talented actress but I think her intelligence is about average. Not brilliant or stupid. I've noticed that contrary to the bimbo stereotype, people tend to see very beautiful women as automatically having high intellect. Interestingly I never see this with gorgeous or beefcake looking men. If anything they are assumed to be dumber than average looking men.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | December 10, 2022 3:33 AM |
Young adult was good but one mistake I think the writers made was setting it in Minneapolis. I feel like her character would have high tailed it to L.A. or NYC by 19. She just seemed to shallow to stay in a Midwestern city.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | December 10, 2022 3:34 AM |
^ No.
She never really hit the big time; she was writing second-rate serial novels for adolescent brains. Minneapolis was the big time to her, and she was barely hanging on even there. Moreover, she still needed a geographical connection to her hometown.
The better question is whether she might go to NY or LA after the film’s end.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 10, 2022 3:44 AM |
Theron has starred in several commercially successful action films, including The Italian Job (2003), Hancock (2008), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Prometheus (2012), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), Atomic Blonde (2017), The Old Guard (2020) and F9 (2021).
by Anonymous | reply 54 | December 10, 2022 5:38 AM |
No, but Jennifer Lawrence is the first female action star.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | December 11, 2022 1:06 AM |
Because Kathleen Turners breastesses meant nothing in “Romancing the Stone”.
My goodness, that woman pushed so many buttons with her voice and body it caused confusion in my nether regions.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 11, 2022 6:12 AM |
She should go back to blonde. And I say this as someone who thinks that a lot of celeb women look much better as Brunettes. But it doesn't work for her for some reason
by Anonymous | reply 57 | December 11, 2022 6:46 AM |
Some blondes go brunette for serious roles. But since Charlize seems to like only action movies now that don't seem appropriate.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 11, 2022 6:48 AM |
She’s a natural brunette.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 11, 2022 8:19 AM |
She went too dark brunette. She needs a warm sandy brown if she's going to do it. And she needs highlighta.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | December 11, 2022 7:33 PM |
Indeed, the dark brown hair is ridiculous.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | December 11, 2022 11:31 PM |
I find it interesting that she has no bio kids. Only adopted. This isn't a judgement, no-one is under an obligation to squeeze out some brats. It's just that avoiding pregnancy all together seems less common among starlets nowadays.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 12, 2022 3:44 AM |
[quote] Most white South Africans are. But they sure are beautiful, though.
Elon Musk's butterface would like a word with you.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | December 12, 2022 3:46 AM |
I think she was the most impressive in Young Adult. Not a likeable character but somehow gave the feels.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | December 12, 2022 3:52 AM |
Carpet needs to match the drapes
by Anonymous | reply 65 | December 13, 2022 12:16 AM |
She’s not a real woman if she didn’t have kids.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 13, 2022 12:35 AM |
Monster!
by Anonymous | reply 67 | December 13, 2022 1:18 AM |
Gosh, Charlize: that makes two of us.
And????
by Anonymous | reply 68 | December 13, 2022 1:47 AM |
She said Will Smith was a total asshole when she was being interviewed a while back. Long, long before the slap.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | December 13, 2022 4:42 AM |
She references her two daughters in this interview but the 10 year old is male. Massive eye roll for you, Charlie.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | December 13, 2022 6:22 AM |
She’s just sooo serious. 😂
by Anonymous | reply 71 | December 13, 2022 7:01 AM |
r62 -- considering her father was a violent alcoholic, I'd say her decision not to have kids was a wise one.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | December 13, 2022 7:26 AM |
R69 takes one to know one.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | December 13, 2022 12:51 PM |
[quote]I'd say her decision not to have kids was a wise one.
She has two kids one of whom she started transitioning when he was 5.
The real story is a white Afrikaner woman adopts a black boy and immediately starts to emasculate him by insisting he’s a girl. Yeah, no issues there.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | December 13, 2022 1:06 PM |
I like her, always get the impression if you were full of shit she would kick you in the cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | December 13, 2022 1:38 PM |
I actually don’t think she’s a great actor. Too much hollering.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | December 14, 2022 9:33 AM |
Did she hook up with Seth MacFarlane?
by Anonymous | reply 77 | December 14, 2022 11:36 AM |
I admired her in Monster but she seems like a really unpleasant uptight person. No matter , I will never cross paths with her.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | December 14, 2022 11:48 AM |
Never cared for her UNTIL she came on the Stern Show. Twice. She actually had some personality, BUT you could tell that she's a piece of work.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | December 14, 2022 11:48 AM |
R79, ooh, how so? I like the cut of your jib and think I can trust your opinion based on your comment. She seems insufferable, but I want to like her.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | December 14, 2022 11:59 AM |
R64 - that was a great performance, and somehow didn’t seem like much of a stretch. Saw her in person once. She was filming a movie in my cold, Canadian prairie city. You can’t help but notice her. Even wrapped up in a coat and gym clothes she can suck up all the attention and gazes like no one I’ve ever seen. Granted, I live in a small, Canadian prairie city. But still. She is stunning in person.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | December 14, 2022 12:08 PM |
R77 Seth is straight?
by Anonymous | reply 82 | December 14, 2022 12:53 PM |
Char-lez!!!
by Anonymous | reply 83 | December 14, 2022 7:49 PM |
Charlize has always been overrated as an actress because she’s “beautiful” (never saw it, she always looked vaguely trans, which is why I suspect DLers like her looks). Good looking women have much lower bars for what constitutes good acting, which is why you see such overpraise of Michelle Pfeiffer (who I think is overall much better than Charlize!) and more recently Margot Robbie. Mediocrity of lowered expectations.
Many European actresses are stunning and can really act, but in American films (which greatly prefer girl next door types) they would never succeed. Eva Green should have Charlize’s acclaim and profile, but is too legitimately beautiful and intelligent to achieve it in the States.
Vivien Leigh was a beautiful woman who was an excellent actress. Faye Dunaway, when her head was still somewhat screwed on, was excellent. Two older examples, but there were many more.
Of recent years…cannot think of any primarily English speaking actresses that are both gorgeous and great actresses. Julianne Moore maybe? Diane Lane?
by Anonymous | reply 84 | December 14, 2022 8:14 PM |
She's one of the gayest straight women.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | December 14, 2022 8:20 PM |
"she always looked vaguely trans"
Only a DL-er could come up with something like this.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | December 14, 2022 8:21 PM |
No no, r86, I can see it too. She can be extremely androgynous when she feels like it. But I also believe she is stunning.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | December 14, 2022 10:03 PM |
I love her.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | December 14, 2022 10:05 PM |
Charlize was a bit of a butter face in the 90s. Still pretty though.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | December 15, 2022 11:44 AM |
Butterface? It's her face that's pretty but from the neck down she's built like an East German Olympic swimmer from the 80s.
I have never seen such a shapeless torso, broad shoulders, bony stick legs, and flat chest on a supposedly beautiful woman. Even Ghoulia Roberts has a more feminine shape then this ice princess.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | December 16, 2022 11:16 PM |
When I first saw her in 2 Days in the Valley I had never seem someone so beautiful. The face, the hair, the body. The whole package. She's a tough chick. Probably preyed upon because of her looks when she was young. Maybe sexually abused by the father. She don't take no shit and she's not a victim. I can admire that.
I think she went brunette to give her hair a break from all the bleaching.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | December 17, 2022 1:13 AM |
[Quote] She's a tough chick.
You would have to be to date Sean Penn.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | December 17, 2022 10:30 AM |
I am not reading any responses here to taint my opinion before I post. I expected to hate her. (Despite me LOVING Young Adult and pretty much every performance of hers) and I came away absolutely loving her.
Nice to be surprised for a change!
by Anonymous | reply 95 | December 17, 2022 12:24 PM |
LChat thinks she's dating Beth Kono, the film producer
by Anonymous | reply 96 | December 29, 2022 3:33 PM |
I find it interesting in that almost all of her action roles, she plays lesbian. I wonder in her mind if giving it up to a man lessens her character's "power". Also, it appears she's wearing a wig in that photo (look at the hairline).
by Anonymous | reply 97 | December 29, 2022 3:45 PM |
No, you don't. You need to fuck off back to South Africa and obscurity.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | December 29, 2022 3:59 PM |
R97 No, she doesn't. In which action movies does she plays a lesbian? Also, she doesn't write the script.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | December 29, 2022 5:50 PM |
I like that she's beautiful, but frequently takes roles which aren't.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | December 29, 2022 6:02 PM |
The Old Guard, Atomic Blond
possibly Mad Max: Fury Road, and Aeon Flux, and she wants to make a lesbian Die Hard.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | December 29, 2022 6:12 PM |
r99, she was also a exec producer on both Old Guard and Atomic Blond, so she did make her characters lesbian.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | December 29, 2022 6:13 PM |
Pele has died.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | December 29, 2022 6:19 PM |
r103 RIP
by Anonymous | reply 104 | December 29, 2022 6:32 PM |
R101 R102 She wasn't gay in Atomic Blond, she was bi. So that's just one lesbian character and she was in like 20 action movies. And her character in Mad Max: Fury Road wasn't sexual with anyone, so you are just making stuff up.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | December 29, 2022 6:41 PM |
Monster ffs.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | December 29, 2022 8:50 PM |
r106 appropriate for both her appearance, character and shagging the foul Sean Penn
by Anonymous | reply 107 | December 29, 2022 8:52 PM |
I cannot envision SP copulating with CT.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | December 29, 2022 8:58 PM |
Just imagine a Chihuahua humping a great Dane
by Anonymous | reply 109 | December 29, 2022 9:02 PM |
r108 imagine him and Madonna
or Robin Wright
by Anonymous | reply 110 | December 29, 2022 9:05 PM |
r108 most likely he'd be out of his face with an Haitian whore like Nicolas Cage in Lord of War
by Anonymous | reply 111 | December 29, 2022 9:06 PM |
[quote]Just pure bitchery.
So, she's Miss DataLounge 2023?
by Anonymous | reply 112 | December 29, 2022 9:12 PM |