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Oscar-winning actresses Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron are to play mother and daughter in a new film, according to an industry report.

The pair will star in The Burning Plain, Hollywood publication Variety has said.

Shooting on the directorial debut from Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga will begin in Mexico early next month.

Theron won best actress for her role in Monster, while Basinger’s supporting actress Oscar was for LA Confidential.

Common ground

Basinger, 53, will play Gina, who is seen through the childhood eyes of Theron’s character, Sylvia.

As an adult, Gina tries to find common ground with her parents.

The film is scheduled to be released in 2009.

South African-born Theron, 32, was nominated for a best actress Academy Award in 2005 for her role in North Country.

Her most recent film, Battle In Seattle, was premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last month.

Basinger, who was recently embroiled in a high-profile custody fight with ex-husband Alec Baldwin over their daughter, was a Bond girl in 1983′s Never Say Never Again.

Source: bbc.co.uk

Actress Charlize Theron is scared of magazine editors because she believes that they distort images of the celebrities by giving people an unrealistic view of beauty.

Theron admits that she owes her glamorous look in the magazine to the team of stylists and intense air-brushing.

However, the Monster star believes that the practice is misleading the public.

“We’re starting to believe that when we see celebrities they’re supposed to look like the magazine covers that they appear on. That’s just not true,” Contactmusic quoted Theron, as saying.

“That’s 4,000 professionals plastering make-up and doing hair and wearing big gowns and air-brushing. That’s not reality,” she added.

Source: topnews.in

Scans from the November issue of Esquire revealing Charlize as the 2007 Sexiest Woman Alive are now available in the gallery for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

It’s official. Charlize has been named Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive. It’s not like any of us had any doubt that it was her, but it’s still nice to finally see it announced. The photos from the spread can be viewed here at esquire.com or here in the gallery. The interview is behind the cut below. Happy reading and viewing the super sexy photos.

Actress Charlize Theron would rather you forget that she is statuesque and beautiful and instead focus on her passion … acting. That passion earned the talented beauty an Academy Award for her performance as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in 2003’s MONSTER. Theron was almost unrecognizable, gaining 30 pounds, wearing unflattering clothes, a bad haircut and little makeup for the part.

In fact, in many of her films she is physically toned down for authenticity purposes. I mean, c’mon, have you seen the real Wuornos? They are hardly two peas in a pod. And because of her God given good looks Theron had to fight to get that part. But fighting is something Theron has no problem doing. If she believes in the material she will do whatever it takes to be a part of it, even if that means taking a smaller part in a film.

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