Venom Queen / Charlize Theron

 

CHARLIZE THERON

Charlize Theron, born August 7, 1975, in Benoni, South Africa, emerged from a tumultuous childhood to become one of Hollywood’s most versatile and compelling actresses. Circa 1995, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting after training as a ballet dancer in Johannesburg. Early appearances in films such as “2 Days in the Valley” (1996) and “The Devil’s Advocate” (1997) showcased her unique ability to balance elegance with raw intensity, quickly earning her recognition from filmmakers and critics alike. Collaborations with directors like Ridley Scott and David Fincher during the late 1990s positioned her as a rising star capable of commanding both dramatic and action-oriented roles.

Charlize Theron / J'adore

Charlize Theron

 Christian Dior J’adore 

Atomic Blonde review / Charlize Theron's ice-cold super-spy makes Bond look arthritic

Atomic Blonde review: Charlize Theron's ice-cold super-spy makes Bond look arthritic

    

Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde

•  Tim Robey, film critic 

11 AUGUST 2017 • 2:28PM

Dir: David Leitch. Cast: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella, Toby Jones. 15 cert, 115 min

“I take pleasure in the details,” says a startlingly attractive French spy (Sofia Boutella) to Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde, remembering the latter’s drink of choice – Stoli on ice – as they rendezvous in a Berlin nightclub. Details are everything in this lusciously appointed retro-noir action romp: it gussies up every element of décor and dances its violent way around the furnishings. When the two women repair to bed, it isn’t shy, either.

Margot Robbie

17 Stars Who Went to Extreme Lengths for Movie Roles

August 14, 2018

Margot Robbie was nearly unrecognizable as Tonya Harding in 2017’s I, Tonya, but not just because on-set makeup artists transformed her with prosthetics, makeup, and a few very ’80s wigs. She also trained to look like one of the world’s former best skaters on the ice: Robbie actually skated for several hours a day, several days a week for five months (although she still couldn’t land the coveted triple axel, which is understandable). Robbie is far from the only actor to go to extreme lengths to prepare for a movie role in recent years; check out the list, including Christian Bale, Jamie Dornan, and more.

Barely Ther Dress / Charlize Theron wows in revealing black Dior dress at premiere of Bombshell

Charlize Theron wows in a black Dior dress as she promotes her new film 'Bombshell'

BARELY THER DRESS 

Charlize Theron wows in revealing black Dior dress at premiere of Bombshell

• Jake Harrison

• 12 Dec 2019, 1:23
• Updated: 12 Dec 2019, 1:24

CHARLIZE Theron looks an Atomic Blonde again as she steps out for a movie premiere in Los Angeles.

The American actress, 44, donned a racy-black Dior dress as she joined her co-stars, Nicole Kidman, 52, and Margot Robbie, 29, at the Bombshell US premiere.

The trio of leading ladies were all dressed to the nines at the event of the movie, which focuses on the sexual harassment claims against former Fox News Chief Roger Ailes, 77.

Charlize Theron / Pretty people don´t always get the best movie roles

PRETTY PEOPLE DON’T ALWAYS GET THE BEST MOVIE ROLES, SAYS CHARLIZE THERON

Last year, she was the one-armed, rough-riding rig-jockey who drove Mad Max: Fury Road to the least likely Oscars sweep in Hollywood history. Now, South Africa's lost diamond tells GQ why superhuman beauty doesn't open every door

Charlize Theron on breaking out of being typecast early on

"Jobs with real gravitas go to people that are physically right for them and that’s the end of the story. How many roles are out there for the gorgeous, f***ing, gown-wearing eight-foot model? When meaty roles come through, I’ve been in the room and pretty people get turned away first.”

Charlize Theron on ageing

“We live in a society where women wilt and men age like fine wine. And, for a long time, women accepted it. We were waiting for society to change, but now we’re taking leadership. It would be a lie to say there is less worry for women as they get older than there is for men... It feels there’s this unrealistic standard of what a woman is supposed to look like when she’s over 40.”

Charlize Theron on South Africa

“I love my country. And it’s very hard for South Africans to believe that, because I left and speak in an American accent. I have a very, very strong connection to my country and to its people. It’s the mother that might have abandoned me, in a weird way, but not all the way. I’m not having a pity party, but I’m constantly trying to win its love back.”

GQ

Women we love / Charlize Theron

WOMEN WE LOVE

Charlize Theron

Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron / Mad Max: Fury Road / Posters

Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron

Mad Max: Fury Road

Posters

Charlize Theron talkx shaving her head for Mad Max

Charlize Theron stars on the May 2015 cover from W Magazine

CHARLIZE THERON TALKS SHAVING HER HEAD FOR ‘MAD MAX’

April 20, 2015

Actress Charlize Theron is the May 2015 cover star of W Magazine, looking ever the role of vixen in a black Dior coat. Lensed by Mert & Marcus and styled by Edward Enninful, the blonde beauty channels her inner seductress for the sexy shoot. In her interview, Charlize also opens up about shaving her head for her ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ role.

On shaving her head for Mad Max:
“At first, my character was going to be ghostlike and albino. And then I thought it would be stronger to shave my head. I called George [Miller] and told him my plan. He went silent, which I thought was a good sign. So I borrowed some clippers and buzzed it all off.”

FASHION GONE ROUGE

The Warm Embrace of Charlize Theron

The Warm Embrace of Charlize Theron

A day with our cover star involving yoga, sushi, and Sean Penn.


BY SCOTT RAAB
APR 21, 2015

Charlize Theron has bronchitis.

This is not the second coming of Sinatra and Talese and 1966, however, not least because Charlize Theron is no overcompensating Hoboken warbler, all due respect. Theron is more the quiet warrior, a dewy goddess with a hacking cough. She's done the antibiotics; now she's going to sweat out the rest of it in the very last row of a packed yoga class in West Hollywood. Her mat sits close to the back wall and near the window; her entourage, which consists of her mother and me, have their mats on either side of her.

The Therons are twice-weekly regulars at this morning class, sixty or seventy devotees led by Vinnie Marino, a man The New York Times once called the Yoga King of Los Angeles. Vinnie's walking all the way from the front of the room to the back to size up the New Jersey jackass in gleaming new sweatpants, a Happy Dog T-shirt, and socks.

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron: Hollywood’s Humble Heroine

With a starring role in this month’s ‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War,’ the actress opens up about motherhood (for the second time), making peace with her past (relationship with Sean Penn and otherwise) and finding personal strength in fear and weakness

By Alex Bhattacharji | Photography by Josh Olins for WSJ. Magazine, Styling by Clare Richardson

ON A COLD LATE-JANUARY morning in Budapest, a shaft of sunlight streams through a window in the stately dining room of the art nouveau Gresham Palace Hotel, illuminating Charlize Theron. Her face contorts into a grimace as she stretches her oatmeal-encrusted forearm across the table, offering a spoon to an indifferent infant, while simultaneously turning her head to anxiously scan the room. Then she dips to look under the table, where she finds her 4-year-old son, Jackson, playing with a handful of Cheerios. “Don’t scare me like that!” she says to the boy, his face hidden under a baseball cap with a faux braided red ponytail flowing behind (a Princess Anna hat; he’s a huge fan of Frozen). “You need to sit at the table and eat breakfast like a big boy.” She taps his seat. “Sit. On. Your. Chair.”

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron: five best moments

The Oscar winner takes centre stage in Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn’s muted new thriller Dark Places. But what have been her finest performances?


Benjamin Lee
Friday 22 January 2016 09.26 GMT

It’s been a rocky – and furious – road but Charlize Theron appears to be back in Hollywood’s favour after her commanding performance in last year’s Mad Max reboot. The Oscar winner’s previous attempts at blockbuster domination (Aeon Flux, Prometheus) were not always so convincing, but in the Oscar-nominated Fury Road, she reminded us of her considerable talents while also driving a really big truck.

This week finds her in a more restrained mode in the underwhelming thriller Dark Places – but what are her finest onscreen moments?

Charlize Theron Has Your New Self-Confidence Mantra

By Nate Jones

February 26, 2016

Are you one of those people whose neurotic need for self-deprecation keeps you from accepting praise wholeheartedly? If so, follow the example of Mad Max: Fury Roadcostume designer Jenny Beavan, who tellsVanity Fair how Charlize Theron knocked some self-confidence into her with just four magic words. "When Charlize [Theron] came for her fitting in Namibia, she put [her costume] on and said, 'This feels really great,'" Beavan recalls. "I went all sort of English and coy and said, 'Oh well, you know, we’ve been trying to make it…' And she just said, 'Take the compliment, bitch.' ... She’s just very straight talking, and I just loved it, so I’ve been taking the compliment, bitch, ever since." New words to live by! Your friend likes your haircut? Take the compliment, bitch. Your boss praises something you worked really hard on? Take the compliment, bitch. A man catcalls you on the street? Okay, that's something you do not need to take as a compliment. But still, most of the time: Take the compliment, bitch.

VULTURE

Charlize Theron / A Vision in Red at Oscars 2016

Charlize Theron 

is a Vision in Red at Oscars 2016
Los Angeles, 28 february 2016

The 50 best films of 2015 / Mad Max: Fury Road / No 34

The 50 best films 

of 2015 

in the US  

No 34 

Mad Max: Fury Road

Charlize Theron joins Hardy’s lone wolf ex-cop in George Miller’s deliriously strange action adventure, a rollicking Grand Theft Auto revamped by Hieronymus Bosch

Peter Bradshaw
Monday 11 May 2015 15.06 BST

T

hat adjective in the title is accurate. Extravagantly deranged, ear-splittingly cacophonous, and entirely over the top, George Miller has revived his Mad Max punk-western franchise as a bizarre convoy chase action-thriller in the post-apocalyptic desert. There are what seem to be dozens of huge rigs and chunky 18-wheelers driven by large, cross men with long hair and bad teeth, or no hair and no teeth, their rides pimped out with skulls and other badass accessories. Some of these assault vehicles have permanent armies of drummers on board, thumping belligerently and rhythmically away, creating the kind of scary and upsetting noise usually only heard on the streets of the Edinburgh festival.

With a similar view to terrifying the enemy, one truck has a lead guitarist perched on the hood with a stack of amplifiers, thrashing out what might be a continuous Slipknot medley. Using a recording won’t do – these people believe in keeping their aggressive music live. And when the vehicles crash, they don’t do any forward-facing twirl though the air the way they used to do back in the 1970s: now it’s the customary rear axle lurch-up for a giant somersault and juddering crash that took the fillings out of my teeth.

It’s like Grand Theft Auto revamped by Hieronymus Bosch, with a dab of Robert Rodríguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn. Tom Hardy plays Max Rockatansky himself, the former interceptor lawman and petrolhead of the original movies, driven to extreme measures by the murder of his wife and child. This film does not appear to run sequentially from the previous trilogy; it’s more a general reimagining of the first, or the overall raddled mood-scape of all three.

Max is here a lone wolf, a survivor of the vaguely delineated global catastrophe that has made oil, water and bullets rare commodities thereabouts, and he is tormented by flashback memories of the child he couldn’t save. He is captured by the hateful chieftain Immortan Joe (played by Mad Max veteran Hugh Keays-Byrne) and taken to his grotesque stronghold, the Citadel, where Joe warlords it over an oppressed semi-bestial populace by controlling the water supply and bizarrely supplementing their fluid intake with industrial quantities of mother’s milk, farmed from imprisoned pregnant women. Max is fated to escape with another rebel: the one-armed Imperator Furiosa, played with glittery-eyed panache by Charlize Theron, whose job was to lead raids, stealing gasoline, ammo and other commodities.

Once captured like Max, and turned into a gladiatorial warrior in Joe’s service, Furiosa is now furious at his patriarchal tyranny; she is escaping, taking with her an improbable phalanx of scantily clothed young women, the “breeders” the warlord wishes to make the mothers of his children (they look as if they are heading for an edgy Australian Vogue photoshoot). Max and Furiosa are heading for a spectacular showdown with their oppressor, and must also deal with Joe’s mercurial, shaven-headed footsoldier Nux, played by Nicholas Hoult.

It really is a strange film. As Max, the craggy but full-lipped Tom Hardy doesn’t look anything like Mel Gibson. It is Theron – or possibly Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, playing a sultry breeder called Splendid – who is channelling the eerily beautiful Gibson from 1979, except that probably neither is pretty enough. Mad Max: Fury Road is almost a silent film in its way. Dialogue is at a minimum, and when Max says anything it is usually preceded by an eccentric rumbling, mumbling mmmm sound, like a macho Mr Bean. He is impassive, to say the least: the nearest Tom Hardy’s Max comes to an emotional outburst is when Splendid does something very brave while hanging on to the side of the truck. Max gives her a little smile and boyish thumbs-up. It’s the Mad Max equivalent of hugging her and declaiming: “Darling, your courage is magnificent.” And when Nux wishes to express defiance or euphoria, he sprays his mouth with silver-grey paint, to make his face look even more like a skull. That is pretty dysfunctional.

At certain key moments, people’s body movements, especially Max’s, slightly speed up, giving the film a kind of dreamlike horror effect, which further colours the occasionally Dalí-esque strangeness of these feral militia on the landscape. Everything looks churned and charred: the heat and desert have turned everyone mad, like Max. As someone says: “Do not become addicted to water; it will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.” It could be a poster tagline for this entirely demented film.

THE GUARDIAN

The best 50 films of 2015 in the US

01. Son of Saul

02. 45 Years
03. The Revenant

04. Anomalisa

05. Bridge of Spies

06. The Look of Silence

07. Carol

08. Amy

09. Joy

10. Mistress America

34. Mad Max: Fury Road
35. Inside out
36. Room
37. Creed 

Charlize Theron spotted out on dinner date with Seth MacFarlane

Charlize Theron spotted out on dinner date with Seth MacFarlane

• Seth MacFarlane and Charlize Theron were spotted at dinner
• The duo were rumored to be dating a couple of weeks ago
• Charlize's rep denied the rumors, saying it was just a professional collaboration

Seth MacFarlane and Charlize Theron were rumored to be dating a couple of weeks ago, when they were said to be 'flirting' right after the Oscars. However, the rumors ended up being shot down by Charlize's rep, who maintained that it was just a professional collaboration between the two.

CHARLIZE THERON WILL NEXT BE SEEN IN MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

However, Charlize and Seth were spotted out on a sushi date in WestHollywood on Monday night. The reports were that Charlize and Seth were 'giggling' and 'flirting' over dinner, but there aren't multiple reports to confirm that. For all we know, it could just as easily have been a business dinner as the two are set to start working on together on 'A Million Ways To Die West'. 

Obviously, it's clear that Charlize and Seth get along, but the question is whether they're just good friends or if there's something more developing. InHollywood, even the most casual dates get lumped into the flirting/datingcategory, and while it definitely seems like there's something going on, we'll have to wait for a couple more sightings to be able to tell further.

SETH MACFARLANE IS BEST KNOWN FOR FAMILY GUY

In addition to 'A Million Ways To Die West', Charlize is set to work on Dark Places, Murder Mystery, and Two Eyes Starring, and will next be seen in 'Mad Max: Fury Road'. Seth, on the other hand, has Family Guy as well as the sequel to Ted to write and prep for. 

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