Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron is an Oscar-winning South African and American actress. She has starred in several Hollywood films, such as The Devil's Advocate, Mighty Joe Young, The Cider House Rules, The Italian Job, Hancock, A Million Ways to Die in the Westand Mad Max: Fury Road...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth7 August 1975
CityBenoni, South Africa
action class community great harassment people sexual trying
The thing that's great about this story is it's not just about the first class action sexual harassment case, ... It's really also about this community and about people just trying to survive.
abuse affect affected bled children community constant happened stories telling work
Then they started telling me stories about how this abuse didn't just affect them. It affected their children when they went to school, when they went to go play hockey. It wasn't just something that happened at work and then it was done. It really bled into the community and there was just this constant fight.
thinking people community
I've seen people talk about how they stopped polio, that was a generation that came together and said, "Let's do this." I think in the AIDS community we've become so complacent in that, it's like we just plateaued... We've completely neglected a whole young generation that is now highly infected.
community identity south-africa
I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.
approach community draw extremely healthy move
I think we all have a well we draw from, and there is a healthy way to approach it and a non-healthy way, ... I feel extremely healthy. I don't feel damaged. I'm not haunted. I come from a community where you just don't do that. There's no choice. You move on.
both community considered hollywood jobs justify men mine pick struggled survival taking terrified theirs understand women
Hell, I would be terrified if Hollywood showed up in my community and was going to pick a scab, ... The other thing was: 'How are the men going to be portrayed?' You have to understand what the men struggled for. At the end of the day, it was survival for both sexes. That doesn't justify the behavior, but in this community, this mine was the one thing they considered theirs and their fathers' and brothers'. The women were taking jobs in a community where there were no jobs to be taken.
care character films honest material
There's only so much you can do with the material you're given, ... A lot of films are very male-oriented, but this is a male-dominated industry. Let's not lie. I don't care what character I play as long as it's an honest exploration.
constant implement night people searching sleep truth ugly
People said, 'Oh, you're doing another ugly movie,' ... I said, 'No, I'm doing another film about real people, and it's not about ugly vs. anything.' It's about searching for that constant truth, and I don't think I'll be able to sleep at night if I know I didn't search for that truth and implement it. I don't know how else to do it as an actor.
constant implement night people searching sleep truth ugly
People said, 'Oh, you're doing another ugly movie,'Â ... I said, 'No, I'm doing another film about real people, and it's not about ugly vs. anything.' It's about searching for that constant truth, and I don't think I'll be able to sleep at night if I know I didn't search for that truth and implement it. I don't know how else to do it as an actor.
movies people ugly
People said, 'Oh, you're doing another ugly movie,'
girl
Besides, ... Im not a big pampering girl anyway.
dinner ice trusting
We'd have dinner with them. We'd bowl, we went snowmobiling and ice fishing. And they started trusting us. They really wanted us to tell the story right.
choice life situations smooth start surprise swim understand
We don't go through life with it all being smooth sailing. ... We all understand situations where you know it's swim or drown. It's a choice you have to make, and sometimes we surprise ourselves, when we actually make that choice and start swimming, with how well we can do it.
interested playing
I was never just interested in playing that one note,