Charlize Central

WHEN Charlize Theron appears onscreen in her latest film, Hancock, it’s as the archetypal soccer mom; a vision of all-American apple-pie goodness, blonde and peachy, wearing a look of tender concern towards her blonde and peachy son.

She looks as if she was born for the part, raised on a diet of milk and cookies in the ’burbs before setting off for Hollywood – which just goes to show.

She has the looks and the accent, but English isn’t even her first language: she’s actually an Afrikaner from small-town South Africa.

She grew up under apartheid. When she was 15 years old, her mother gunned down her alcoholic father on the family smallholding after he turned violent.

So much for soccer mom. But Theron’s cheesecake looks are always a bit of a red herring. She’s known for her beauty – how could she not be?
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I apologize for the lack of updates recently, but I’ve been swamped with real life stuff lately and I haven’t had much time to be online. I did do a little gallery update last night though, so I hope you will all enjoy the new additions.

Appearances
‘Felon’ Screening - July 17, 2008 (x11)

Interviews
“Good Morning America” - March 13, 2008 (HQ) (x16)

Photoshoots (please log in to view)
Parade Magazine 2007 (x8 - thanks to Maria and Mariana)
Vanity Fair (Germany) 2008 (x2)
NY Times Style 2008 (x2)

Scans
Celebrity Hairstyles - May 1999 (x1 - thanks to Jess)

As you can all see, I’ve put up a stunning new layout created by Jess of GotMedia?. I’m totally in love with it and hope you guys will enjoy it as well.  The gallery was also updated with a shiny new design last week, which was created by Eny of Innuendo Designs and I hope you all like that new look as well.

She is, as Glamour magazine writer Skip Hollandsworth aptly pointed out, “fiercely intelligent” and “gloriously opinionated,” somebody we locals love to describe as “beauty and brains,” and, again to quote Hollandsworth, “an actress who refuses to be shallow, on-screen or off.”

I saw that for myself when I did a one-on-one with Charlize Theron during the Hollywood junket for Hancock in New York mid-June. Produced by Columbia Pictures (and directed by Peter Berg, an actor in his own right), Hancock (now showing nationwide) stars in the title role Will Smith with whom Theron first worked in The Legend of Bagger Vance in 2000.

Looking at me with piercing hazel eyes and brushing her shoulder-length blonde hair away from her lovely face, Theron would tackle your questions not in mono-syllables like most blondes would but in long, elaborate sentences, firm and sure of her “gloriously opinionated” answers.
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“Hancock” stars Will Smith, Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman talk about why they wanted to be in the movie and how the film finds the human being in a superhero.

But Jason lets it spill that he tried to drag out his sex scene with Charlize Theron. Wonder if she noticed? Will says he found it hard to concentrate while shooting with fans screaming at him on Hollywood Blvd. Duh.

As for superpowers, Will wants Hancock’s ability to drink like a fish. Charlize and Jason just want to want to be able to fly.

We’ll like both, please.

Click here to watch a video of the interview with the ‘Hancock’ stars.

Source: latimes.com

Charlize Theron is in the mood to talk. This month the notoriously private star talks to ELLE about marriage, babies, her body and why she won’t become another Hollywood party girl.

In the new issue of ELLE, on sale tomorrow, Charlize reveals how it’s her long-term partner, Irish actor Stuart Townsend who has been pushing her to open up about their idyllic, 7-year relationship, and the reasons why she’ll never marry him. ‘ I want to know that I wake up every morning because I want to, not because a pieces of paper says so’ she reveals. However he does call her his wife and she does wear a gold band of forget-me knots on her wedding finger that Townsend gave her ‘ I wear it all the time…it signifies my commitment to him.’ She will be having babies with him though, ‘ I be delighted if I found out I was pregnant tomorrow. I know I’m going to be a mother.. and Stuart will be our baby’s father.’
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