Charlize Theron owes her career to a late-night meltdown with her mom.
The Oscar winner, 34, whose romantic drama Burning Plain is in theaters now, opens up during her Quintessentially-sponsored NYC premiere.
What has been the defining moment of her life so far?
“I’ve had a few, I have to say,” the South African-born stunner tells me. “I remember at night, at like 2 in the morning, with my mom in the City in a basement on, like, 21st Street, crying my eyes out and eating four pints of ice cream because I couldn’t dance anymore, and my mom saying ‘well, why don’t you try acting?’ I mean … because of some crazy moment at 2 a.m. with …

The South African-born actress became an American citizen in 2007 but initially outstayed her welcome in the States when she was struggling to find work after her breakthrough role in Two Days In The Valley.
As her work visa expired, Theron was still fighting for roles in Hollywood – and had just landed a role opposite Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves in 1997 film The Devil’s Advocate when immigration officials caught up with her.
She explains, ‘I had to hold out for two years after playing the femme fatale in Two Days In The Valley because people wanted me to play that role. I think there was a conscious effort on my part to hold back and …

“Let the Right One In” helmer Tomas Alfredson will direct Nicole Kidman in true-life sex-change drama “The Danish Girl.”
Script is written by Lucinda Coxon, based on David Ebershoff’s novel about Danish painter Einar Wegener (Kidman), who in 1931 became the first person to go through a sex-change operation to become a woman.
However, Charlize Theron, who had been attached to play Wegener’s wife, Gerda, has left the production.
Source: Variety

Charlize Theron listened to Indian chanting when she shot her latest Dior campaign.
The Hollywood beauty, who is the face of Dior’s J’Adore fragrance, relied on relaxing music to cope with the fast pace of a recent photo shoot to celebrate the perfume’s 10th anniversary.
The campaign’s make-up artist Shane Paish said: “We listened to tons of different music to stay inspired, everything from Culture Club to Indian chanting. The mood was fun, fast-paced and creative.”
Paish also revealed that during the Los Angeles photo shoot Charlize experimented with several strong ideas which could feature in the new adverts.
He explained to People magazine: “There were so many looks. It was like working on a non-stop treadmill – shooting …

Hollywood actress Charlize Theron got a rude shock when she learnt that people from her native land South Africa have poor knowledge about AIDS.
In South Africa HIV-positive men believe that by having sex with a young virgin can be cure them of this disease. Town Rape Crisis Centre in 1999 was opened in a bid to stop the spread of AIDS but decade later people are still under the illusion that simple cures can help them get past it.
The men rape young child or virgin in hope to cure themselves, not realizing that they are spreading it further. Theron feels that it is the lack of proper knowledge about AIDS and superstitions of people which …

The Toronto International Film Festival has ramped up its star power with titles featuring such top talent as George Clooney, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Natalie Portman and Canadian Michael Cera.
Seven newly added films will get the red-carpet gala treatment, including The Men Who Stare at Goats, starring Ewan McGregor as a reporter chasing a tip from an ex-military figure, played by Clooney.
The dark comedy, co-starring Jeff Bridges and directed by Grant Heslov, is Clooney’s second at the fest this year, after the previously announced Up in the Air, lensed by Montreal’s Jason Reitman.
Theron and Duvall team up with Viggo Mortensen and Guy Pearce in The Road, a post-apocalyptic tale of survival adapted from the …

Charlize Theron often feels like she has taken cocaine.
The ‘Burning Plain’ actress constantly feels anxious about things she has said, and likens the worry to how people feel the day after they’ve taken illegal drugs.
She revealed to America’s Vogue magazine: “People tell me that cocaine makes you feel superhuman and you’ll say anything. Then, when you come down, all of a sudden you have guilt. But I have that feeling innately, even without the cocaine.”
The 34-year-old star has also spoken about the public perception of her, insisting her good looks often lead people to assume she is shallow.
She explained: “This package does not describe the centre of my creamy goodness. I cut my hair really …

Though the official line-up of the festival, that runs from September 2 to 12, will be out in Rome on July 30, it is likely to include latest creations from biggies such as Steven Soderbergh, Michael Moore, Joe Dante, Werner Herzog and Todd Solondz. Festival Director Marco Mueller and his team appear to have decided on movies whose actors would make it a point to fly down to Venice, helping the international event to avoid last year’s criticism of being star starved.Moore’s documentary Capitalism: A Love Story will have a go at the current economic crisis, while Soderbergh’s The Informant essays Matt Damon as an agriculture business price fixer. Australian helmer John Hillcoat will make …

Charlize Theron has big plans for the World Cup.
The Academy Award winner’s Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project is teaming up with LAFC Chelsea Soccer Club in Los Angeles to build community football programs for underprivileged children in South Africa. In addition to football fields, uniforms and equipment, kids involved in the program will receive health education and services.
The project will serve schools in South Africa’s Umkhanyakude District, an area plagued by a high rate of HIV infection. She hopes to have the first fields built by the time the World Cup begins June 11.

Hollywood actress Charlize Theron spent four nights in a Los Angeles hospital last week after contracting a painful stomach virus, according to a tabloid report.
The Hancock star is alleged to have suffered severe abdominal pains, which she attributed to food poisoning.
But when the sharp stomach pangs failed to go away, her boyfriend Stuart Townsend took her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to seek treatment.
According to the National Enquirer, doctors ran a series of tests on Theron and diagnosed her with a serious virus, thought to have been contracted during her travels overseas.
And Townsend was left shaken by Theron’s health scare, reportedly telling pals, “I was scared to death. I had no idea what was happening to …