I finally got around to capping ‘Aeon Flux’ this week and have uploaded screencaps of the extras to the gallery. Caps from the film will be added within the next few days once I finish sorting them. Click here or on the images below to view them all.

New images (a poster, an on-set photo and a replacement still in hq) from ‘Sleepwalking’ have been added to the gallery. Happy viewing!

Many thanks to Jess for scanning the article on Charlize that was featured in the Fall 2007/Winter 2008 issue of Caesers Player magazine. Happy reading!

Charlize Theron seems an even-tempered person, with amused, intelligent views on her life, her work and the state of the world. But one sure-fire way to rattle her is to ask why she doesn’t play more glamorous roles.

On the face of it, this isn’t a stupid question. South African-born Theron, 32, is among the better-looking members of her peer group – leading actresses based in Los Angeles – in which looks are a virtual pre-condition of entry. Yet it’s true that her stature derives largely from roles that disguise her beauty.

She won a best actress Oscar four years ago via this route, gaining 30 pounds to play the serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster. Throughout the film she looked bleary-eyed, puffy and unkempt with a blotchy complexion.

In North Country (2005), she portrayed Josey Aimes, a working-class single mother who was in the first group of women to work in a Minnesota mine and who won a landmark sexual harassment case.

Now Theron is at it again. In her new film, In the Valley of Elah, she is another single mother suffering chauvinistic behaviour from male colleagues. As Emily Sanders, a small-town Tennessee police detective, she helps a retired soldier (Tommy Lee Jones) investigate the odd disappearance of his son after the young man returns from a tour of duty in Iraq.
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She’s a beautiful Hollywood star, but Charlize Theron is much more interested in building a reputation as a serious actress. The Oscar winner – whose partner is Irish actor Stuart Townsend – talks to Ben Falk about surviving her traumatic background.

Who would have thought it? A stunning, leggy, blonde former model is now one of the most respected character actresses in Hollywood.

At just 32, Charlize Theron has an Oscar on her mantelpiece and is once again ditching the fair locks to play a dogged detective in Crash director Paul Haggis’s upmarket drama In The Valley Of Elah.

“It is the best thing that cigarettes have ever given me,” laughs the South-African born actress, who met Haggis when the pair nipped out for sneaky fags while stomping the awards beat (she had been nominated for North Country). “We were the only two sad cases outside in the alley.”
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According to various online sources, Charlize has signed on to play the wife of Viggo Mortensen’s character in the upcoming bigscreen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s bestselling novel “The Road” for 2929 Entertainment. Shooting is set to begin next month and more information will be added as it becomes available.

“I’m going to do something filthy,” says Charlize Theron. “Is that all right?” Go ahead, I say, intrigued. She places a cigarette between her lips and lights up. How disappointing.

Smokers are a dying breed in Los Angeles, but Theron partly has her “filthy” habit to thank for her role in Paul Haggis’s haunting Iraq war film, In the Valley of Elah. “It’s the one and only good thing that will ever come from smoking,” she says, smiling, her green eyes obscured behind designer sunglasses. The story goes that it was her and Haggis’s mutual craving for nicotine that first brought them together. “We were doing the awards circle and we were the only two losers out in the alley smoking,” laughs the willowy 32-year-old. “We started talking about this project, and a year later he sent me the script. I read it, and the next day I said, ‘Count me in’.”

In his follow-up to the Oscar-winning race drama Crash, Haggis draws on the real-life murder of a GI back from Iraq to highlight the psychological and emotional damage being done to soldiers and to raise questions of moral responsibility. Theron plays Emily Sanders, a no-nonsense police detective and single mother, who helps the victim’s father (Tommy Lee Jones) circumvent Army red tape and uncover the truth about his son’s last hours.
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A big “thank you” goes out to Mariana for making us the featured site at sarahpolley.org this month.