Charlize Theron plays Hollywood sex siren in a new photo shoot for Vanity Fair, magazine, although she’s far more down to earth in everyday life. She’s known to hold a drink, swear like a sailor and tell dirty jokes.

“One of the first times we met she told me a really dirty joke and that’s when I knew I loved her,” said Jason Reitman in a recent interview.

“Honestly, a woman with a dirty sense of humour is probably the most attractive thing on earth,” he added. Reitman should know. He directed Theron in “Young Adult,” where she plays a heavy-drinking, foul-mouthed free spirit, who is intent on revenge when she returns to her high school to seek out an old flame.

Charlize recounts in the interview one of her own early crushes.”I was so in love with Richard Dean Anderson [in] “MacGyver,” she said referring to an 1980s action-adventure television series about a secret agent.

In the photo shoot, the South African model, 36, wears a black short-waisted blazer, black panties and not much else. It’s just her against a white backdrop and that’s pretty much all you need.

Theron takes it from there in a series of sexy poses. The shoot moves to the street for a series of night time shots. Theron wears a a blazer, black monokini swimsuit and black stilettos. “Not a lot of people would get into a bathing suit and walk a street at night in LA, especially in this neighborhood,” she says.

The statuesque actress, who won an Oscar for best actress in 2003 for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the film “Monster,” was surprised she was left out of the running this year.

“It’s so bizarre to look at this as something to be bummed about because I’ve gotten some of the best reviews in my career for this and people have really responded to me in this role,” she said.

“That to me is the greatest gift because usually the joke between me and my producing partner is that any script that mentions crying, depression or torture lands on my desk! So it was nice to do something different and for people to like it, that to me is like winning an Academy Award,” she added.

Theron is next up in the Rupert Sanders-directed film “Snow White and the Huntsman,” starring Kristen Stewart, which is due in June. Judging from recent trailers she steals the movie as the wicked queen.

Then, she’ll appear in Ridley Scott’s “Alien” prequel “Prometheus,” due June 8. In the meantime, check out her photos and the video below:

Source: The Improper

Charlize is on the cover of next month’s issue of W magazine. Scans of the magazines were from Kroqjock and have been uploaded in the gallery. Here is an excerpt of the article from the magazine.

Lynn Hirschberg: In Young Adult, you play Mavis Gary, who is stunning on the outside and a mess on the inside. Returning to the small town in Minnesota where she reigned as the beauty/bitch of her high school, Mavis sets out to reclaim her ex-boyfriend, now married. She is self-involved, delusional, and generally hard to like, which is rare for a female protagonist in a comedy. Do you have to like a character to play her?
Charlize Theron: I liked Mavis, but no, I don’t think I need to like my characters. I do think empathy is very important. It’s crucial to understand circumstance and story to grasp the role in a truthful manner. Your characters are like your children: Sometimes they make you proud, and other times, you think, Oh, really?! In Young Adult, I wanted to show some cringe-worthy moments that only women will get.

Like the “cutlets.” Mavis wears flesh-­colored glue-on gel-filled “breasts” over her real ones.
I wear those! If you don’t have boobs, you wear those cutlets. I heard a story of a girl who was on a date, started making out, and thought, Oh, he’s going to touch the cutlets! So she went to the bathroom to take them off, but her purse was too small to put them in there. I always thought that was a funny image, a woman not knowing what to do with these things that you stick onto your boobs. It’s just the most bizarre, unsexy thing there is—so I added that to Mavis.

Growing up in South Africa, were you always tall and blonde and beautiful?
For the first eight years of my life, I didn’t have front teeth. I was pretty sick as an infant, and antibiotics rotted them. But then I started to take dance classes, and I eventually got some teeth [laughs]. When I was 16, I went to Milan to model.

Did you dream of being an actress?
I wanted to be a ballerina, but I was too tall, and I had too many injuries. What I loved as a ballerina was telling stories, and I could also do that with acting, so I eventually moved to L.A.

You had a star-is-born moment as a result of your first role. For 2 Days in the Valley, you were on a billboard over Sunset Boulevard for a very long time. What was the audition for that movie like?
I remember I was in a catsuit. I’d never auditioned before, and I almost brought a bottle of ketchup and squirted it all over myself for the scene where I got shot. I looked like a maniac. It was a dying scene, so I barged through the door and started crawling on the floor. I think they were too scared not to give me the role.

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You can also watch the screen test down below:

Source: W Magazine

Charlize is featured in next months issue of Elle US. There is only a one page article of Charlize plus a page size image of the actress. Check out the images below.

Charlize is on the cover of this months issue of Elle Russia. She looks so graceful in the editorial. This is basically the same photos that is featured on LA Confidential where Charlize is on the cover as well. Here are more thumbnails of the images from this magazine.

Unlike other movie stars who slip out of the spotlight for an extended period, there was no spectacular box-office flop, no public fall from grace, no stint in rehab. The lady in question was simply busy pursuing other kinds of creative endeavors. But—as the résumé of nearly 40 films, a mantel containing a slew of coveted acting trophies, and the stacks of high-glam magazine covers confirm—Charlize Theron remains a movie star, and she is back.

The actress, whose early career received attention more for her uncommon beauty and statuesque screen presence than for her increasingly compelling acting skills, is back on the big screen once again after a lengthy sabbatical. And now, on the brink of the release of Young Adult, her first major starring role since 2008, the actress’s uniquely upbeat-yet-laid-back demeanor suggests she’s glad to be back. “I’ve got to tell you, it’s probably the best experience I’ve ever had on a film,” she says of making Young Adult. “I had an amazing time.”

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