Charlize Theron is finally returning to the big screen! After a long hiatus, she’s returning this month in ‘Young Adult’ (can’t wait!) and after that, 2012′s ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’.
I’m so excited she’s back, because I love her – and 99% of her movies. I can’t WAIT to see ‘Young Adult’ (trailer below) I think it looks absolutely hilarious!
Here are some snippets from the interview!
Charlize opens up about the end of her 10-year relationship with Stuart Townsend, and what it’s like being single:
“It was sinking, and I had to give it a fight,” she says. “I really wanted to try and make it work. That was the priority. I wouldn’t do it any different way.”
As we meet, Theron is single—a foreign experience. “I’ve never been single,” she says. “This is the first time in my life. From the time I was nineteen, I’ve been in relationships, literally gone from one to the other within a month.
“It’s been good for me,” she continues. “I’m a creature who’s really found her comfort zone in relationships.”
“It’s been nice to rediscover myself,” Theron says. “I had to make a real conscious effort to do it—it’s hard. It’s much easier to lose yourself in flowers and cigarettes and coffee with somebody else.”
On winning the Oscar for Best Actress in 2003, for her performance as serial killer Aileen Wuornous:
Winning the Oscar was “amazing,” she says. The night she was up for it, in a shimmering Gucci dress, she felt “like a princess.” At the
last second, Diane Lane switched her seat so Theron’s mother, Gerda, could be next to her when the envelope was opened.
“It was life-changing—it opened a lot of doors,” says Theron, who was nominated again for 2005’s North Country. “But it made people have a lot of opinions about what should happen next. You realize quickly that you can never please everybody.”
On going back to work after a three year hiatus:
“I realized how much I love what I do,” she says. “I really, really missed it. Like around week three, I had this horrible, sappy moment where I got a little overwhelmed. It was just a really great fucking experience.”
She hesitates. “I’d gotten out of a relationship, and I was in this really floaty place. My feet weren’t touching the ground. I just kind of turned to [Reitman] and was like, ‘I feel like me again.’ ”
On an embarrassing fashion faux pas during a past date:
“I was on this date and started making out, and it was moving a little further, so I realized I had to get the cutlets out,” Theron recalls. “But my bag was small, and I couldn’t fit them in the thing. Jason [Reitman] was like, ‘No way. That doesn’t happen!’ But that stuff happens to girls all the time.”
Whatever happened to the cutlets?
Theron pauses. “I may have hid them in his trash with lots of toilet paper.”
Did Charlize ever lose a teenage love like her character in ‘Young Adult’?
“I didn’t have a high school boyfriend,” she confesses. “But there was this guy, Johan Botha, who I was obsessed with. Obsessed! There was a school dance coming up, and I told my mom I needed a dress, and I bought this amazing crushed-velvet burgundy dress—long-sleeved, off-the-shoulder, at Woolworth’s. And then Thursday came, and Friday came, and he did not ask me to the dance. And I had to call my mom to come get me.
“Johan Botha! I haven’t thought about him in so long. He was a really good cyclist. I think I spoke five words to him. I would lie in my bed and listen to those heartbreak eighties songs and think it was the end of the world that this boy did not know I existed.”
A week or so later, I locate Johan Botha via e-mail. He’s an artist, living in Johannesburg, still riding his bicycle, and singing and playing guitar in a band called Billy Buckle.
“Haha, yes we were in school together,” Botha writes of Theron. “If you interview her again, you may tell her that the crush was definitely mutual, for what it’s worth.
“Oh, and she wore glasses at the time, which I thought was very cute.”
On quitting smoking:
“I was highly addicted,” she confesses. “I thought, I don’t smoke like normal people. I smoke to die.”
On Kristen Stewart, her costar in ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’:
“She just turned 21,” Theron says of Stewart. “She’s a child. When I think about myself at 21, I had just done The Devil’s Advocate, and Keanu [Reeves] had paparazzi following him and Al Pacino said this thing to me: ‘If I knew that my life would be under this kind of scrutiny, I would have never become an actor.’ ” And I thought, Wow. I couldn’t comprehend it.
“And Kristen is just living this to the max and still has a sense of humor about it. There’s this really lovely quality about her that just doesn’t give a fuck. A lot of people say they don’t, but then they go home and cry and pop a Xanax. Kristen actually doesn’t give a fuck. That’s what’s so refreshing about her.
“I’m looking forward to killing her and taking her beauty,” Theron says. “That’s what happens, right?”
On having children some day:
“I do want to have kids, yeah,” she says. “I always have. I’ve never had a rush for it, a moment where I really wanted to do it. I don’t have a panic about it.”
Lots of kids? “I don’t think about the amount so much. You have to be aware of what you can give. I don’t know where I’m going to be in five years. I might be in a place where I’m like, ‘Yeah! Six!’ ”
Theron laughs. “I don’t think it will ever be that,” she says.
Read the full interview here!
