Charlize Theron regrets not training harder for Prometheus.

The 36-year-old actress – who plays corporate figurehead Meredith Vickers in the Ridley Scott-directed sci-fi movie – felt out of shape while filming “sexy” running scenes and thinks they turned out looking more “ugly” than attractive due to her lack of preparation for the role.

She said: “I probably should have trained a little bit because I found myself in the middle of Iceland having to run with all this heavy gear on my back. It was one take of sexy running and then I was all ugly running. Ridley going, ‘Run. Run!’ was pretty much the ugly running.”

Charlize found her transformation into a hard-nosed businesswoman in the motion picture – which follows the crew of the Prometheus space ship in 2085 as they go in search of aliens – came to her naturally as soon as she donned a suit.

She added to Hello! magazine: “I don’t ever set out to play a character with strength. I try to kind of find the circumstance and try to be as honest as I can.

“Once we all understood the world which she [Meredith] was in, where we wanted to go with her, and what we wanted to explore with her, that seeps in and you all of a sudden put that suit on and are like, ‘Wow, yeah, I wanna order somebody around.’ And you just kinda find it.”

Source: NZ Herald

Oscar winner Charlize Theron is set to be honoured for her decade of film achievements at an upcoming Las Vegas convention of theatre owners. The actor shot to fame in the 1990s by becoming the first South African to win an Oscar in a major acting category.

Now she’s set to be singled out for her career when she receives the Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film Award at CinemaCon April 26, reports contactmusic.com.

“Over the past decade, Charlize Theron has proven that as an actor, she can do it all. Whether her role be comedic or dramatic, she never ceases to entertain audiences with her unique ability to capture the essence of any character,” Mitch Neuhauser , general manager CinemaCon said.

CinemaCon, will be held April 23-26 at Caesars Palace in Sin City.

Source: Hindustan Times

Check out Charlize’s Funny or Die account if you havent seen it yet. She has a bunch of new video uploads of her acting silly. It’s worth checking out. I’ve also added her various profile images in the gallery. Click here to visit her FOD account!

In case you missed the announcement, Charlize will be on tomorrow’s Live with Kelly. Hopefully she’ll discuss her son, Jackson, and talk about SWATH & Prometheus! Make sure to check out those VCRs and recorders.

New mother Charlize Theron may have a tougher time than other new moms adjusting to her first child. That’s because she’s admitted to suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD.

“I have OCD, which is not fun,” she told Australian radio show Kyle and Jackie O. “I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.”

Babies, especially once they reach toddler-hood, aren’t exactly known for their neatness. The Oscar-winning actress announced last week that she is the “proud mom of a healthy baby boy named Jackson.” This is the first child for the 36-year-old actress who has been single since her split from actor Stuart Townsend in 2010.

For parents with OCD, having children can actually make symptoms worse. “OCD symptoms tend to latch on to things that are most important to us, so parents with OCD may have doubts about their abilities or intrusive thoughts about their child’s safety or hurting their child,” Stephen Whiteside, a psychologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., who specializes in anxiety disorders including OCD, told ABCNews.com.

OCD is an anxiety disorder that at its basic level is a fear of one’s thoughts, whether it’s a fear of messiness, germs or something else. To relieve the anxiety associated with such intrusive thoughts, an obsessive-compulsive will feel compelled to behave in a certain way, such as cleaning out their cabinets before going to sleep or checking and rechecking their child.

Whiteside has heard anecdotes of OCD patients actually improving once they became parents. “It’s certainly possible that when you have something that is of greater concern to you — you’re not just taking care of yourself but a baby — those emotions can overwhelm the OCD and motivate you to do the things to get better. The best treatment is exposure or facing your fears,” Whiteside said.

That’s what happened to Julianne Moore, who scrapped her daily routine of leaving her apartment at exactly the same time and pacing her walk so that she only got green lights, after having children Caleb and Liv. “Having two young children means you drop all that sort of rubbish!” Moore told UK’s Guardian.

Moore admitted she’s still “fanatical about straightening furniture and lining stuff up, but I’m much more laid back than I used to be!”

Theron also struggles when things are out of order. “I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I’ll say to myself: ‘I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn’t be there,’” she was quoted saying in London’s Daily Mail.

Comparing herself to the character she played in her most recent film, “Young Adult,” she told the Australian radio show, “I am not dirty at all, I’m actually the opposite.”

Whiteside’s advice to her and other new parents with OCD: “Try to put things in perspective, reminding yourself that you’re going to do a much better job as a parent if you leave things messy and spend time with your child than being perfect.”

He said, “It might be uncomfortable at first, but the feeling gradually goes away, and it should get easier.”

If it seems as though OCD and celebrity go hand-in-hand, there’s a reason — so many celebrities have admitted to having the condition. Click through to see some of them.

Source: ABC News