Charlize Theron: “I Don’t Need to Be an Enigma” The actress explains why she loves 'the backbreaking part' of her job but offers some choice words for the pretenses of stardom: 'Let’s break down all the walls so that we can just get down to business'
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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