Charlize is out promoting her new movie, ‘Young Adult’.

She looks amazing!

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Charlize Theron looked gorgeous last night in a white and black dress, while attending the Independent Filmmaker Project’s 21st annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, held at Cipriani Wall Street.

Theron appeared on stage with her ‘Young Adult’ costar Patton Oswalt. The Diablo Cody-penned film opens on December 16.

It’s Theron’s first appearance onscreen since 2009, when she took a break from acting to focus on her now-over relationship with Stuart Townsend.

Theron’s plunging neckline isn’t anything new. The Oscar winning actress is used to showing a little skin on screen. She once even admitted to Vogue, “I feel like I always reveal too much. There’s something sexy about the mystery. I don’t know how to play that card, though.”

Also pictured: Gary Oldman and Elizabeth Olsen.

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Charlize Theron stars as a mean girl in the new dark comedy ‘Young Adult’, and in a new revelation, Theron admits she suffered at the hands of mean girls in high school!

“I wore really nerdy glasses because I was blind as could be and the boys didn’t like [me],” the actress, 36, told PEOPLE recently in New York. “I didn’t have any boyfriends, but lots of crushes.”

Ignored by a boy she had a crush on, she says she had longed to be part of the in-crowd, causing her to do “crazy things.”

“I wasn’t in the popular crowd. There was a really popular girl at school and I was obsessed with her. I mean you would go to jail for that stuff today,” Theron says with a laugh. “I was in tears one day because I couldn’t sit next to her.”

She also says she was bullied by her classmates for her glasses and not having the perfect haircut and clothes.

“I actually got a lot of the mean girl stuff from the ages of 7 to 12. I was pretty much a mess in primary school,” she admits. “But I got that out of my system by the time I got to high school and was more immune to all of that stuff.”

Young Adult opens Dec. 9.

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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!

Here’s our first look at Kristen Stewart as Snow White, and Charlize Theron as the evil queen!

I have to admit, I’m not disappointed by the trailer! It looks great!

After years of planning and funding, it looks like a Grace Kelly movie is in the works. Deadline reports that the movie will cover a year and a half period in 1962 when the princess helped save Monaco.

20th Century figures seem to be the rage, from Colin Firth’s King George VI in The King’s Speech to Michelle Williams’ portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn to Meryl Streep’s upcoming turn as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. The next figure to watch out for: actress-turned-Monaco princess Grace Kelly. Shortly after his agents began circulating the Arash Amel script Grace of Monaco, producer Pierre-Ange Le Pogam has agreed to fully fund a $15 million project that is now out to directors and will soon look for an actress to play Princess Grace. The film covers a half year period in 1962, when French leader Charles De Gaulle and Monaco’s Prince Rainier III were at odds over Monaco’s standing as a tax haven. France gave Monaco six months to reform its tax laws, and the situation escalated. By that time, Kelly (33 at the time) had given up her acting career to become a full time princess, and the film details her political manuevering behind the scenes to save Monaco. The CAA-repped Amel scripted the Aaron Eckhart-starrer The Expatriate.

Hollywood has been buzzing all week about which Hollywood actress should play the -year-old princess. This is a tall order, who could play the classic, beautiful, smart and elegant Kelly? (It’s like casting someone to play Aubrey Hepburn! How can it be done?)

There have been many names thrown into the mix as who should play Kelly. Here are some of them:

Michelle Williams: In my opinion, Michelle is too obvious. After portraying Marilyn Monroe in “My Week With Marilyn”, I don’t think she would get this part. I don’t know if Michelle could pull it off, either. She’s more ……. brooding (she always plays such sad characters!)? I don’t know if she could do elegant and classy. I could be wrong!

January Jones: Unlike Michelle Williams, I do think January could pull off elegant and classy. She has a timeless face – and as we’ve seen in ‘Mad Men’ she really can pull off that gorgeous 60′s look. BUT what’s working against January is she really is a terrible actress. Horrible. In no way could she pull off that kind of role.

Amber Heard: Amber is definitely Hollywood’s It-Girl right now. Having starred in the short-lived ‘Playboy Club’, Amber is now starring opposite Johnny Depp in ‘The Rum Diary’. She could definitely pull of the 60′s glam look – my only question would be in her acting. But in all fairness, I’ve only really seen her in ‘The Playboy Club’ and I won’t hold that against her.

Charlize Theron: You guys seem to like the Charlize Theron suggestion, so I’ve added her here. I agree, to an extent. I think she’s an amazing actress, but like Michelle Williams - I think she thrives in serious roles. I’m not sure if she could play the elegant Grace. I think out of all the choices, however, Charlize might be the best pick.

Other names thrown in the mix: Gwyneth Paltrow, Rosamund Pike, Carey Mulligan, Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively.

Who do you think should get the role?

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Charlize Theron, who won a Best Actress Oscar for her role in “Monster,” stars in the Diablo Cody-written, Jason Reitman-directed “Young Adult,” a black comedy with a dark horse chance at prestige season glory. Playing a young adult novel author who, down and out, returns to her hometown to try and win back her high school boyfriend (Patrick Wilson). Problem is, he’s married, has a kid and is quite content with his life, making them the polar opposites at this point in their lives.

As she throws back shots and flails at love, she becomes closer with a former high school geek played by Patton Oswalt. Disheveled, wry and slightly depressed, he looks like he could be a scene stealer here.

The film, due out on December 9th, will be Theron’s first film out in theaters since 2009′s “The Road.” She’ll star next year in “Prometheus” and then as the Evil Queen in “Snow White and the Huntsman.”

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