Charlize Theron was photographed at the premiere of ‘Young Adult,’ held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on December 15, 2011. 36-year-old star looked stylish in Stella McCartney Spring 2012 dress. South African actress, Charlize Theron hit the red carpet, donning a black, navy and white one-shoulder asymmetrical dress. She teamed her lovely dress with a pair of Manolo Blahnik heels.

Source: Style Bistro

In a news release announcing the award, festival chairman Harold Matzner called “Young Adult” “a truly unique and utterly enjoyable film” and added, “The filmmakers and cast represent the some of the best and most exciting filmmaking work of the year and have delivered a biting black comedy as deeply poignant as it is funny.”

Of the four honorees, only Oswalt is not a past PSIFF recipient. Reitman and Cody received the Vanguard Award in 2008 for their previous collaboration, “Juno,” while Theron received the Desert Palm Achievement Actress Award for “North Country” in 2006. Reitman also won the festival’s Best Director award for “Up in the Air” two years ago.

Previously announced PSIFF honorees include Octavia Spencer, Michelle Williams, George Clooney, Glenn Close and “The Artist” director Michel Hazanavicius.

The 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival kicks off on January 5 and runs through January 16. The awards gala, at which the “Young Adult” team will receive their honors, will take place on January 7.

Source: Reuters

Charlize Theron says she didn’t miss the movie world during her three years off.
The Oscar-winning actress stars in Jason Reitman’s new film Young Adult, her first on-screen movie role since The Road in 2009.
In between, she prepared to star in Mad Max sequel Fury Road, which was repeatedly delayed and still hasn’t been shot, and worked on developing projects with her production company.
But the Monster star said of acting: “I’ll be very honest: I wasn’t missing it. It’s hard to miss something when nothing was kind of sparking that instrument to get excited about.”
Charlize, who has split with Irish actor Stuart Townsend after nearly a decade together, plays Mavis Gary, a teen fiction ghost writer who returns to her hometown in rural Minnesota to lure her now-married former boyfriend, in Young Adult.
“Most people who know me who have seen the film are not that shocked,” she said. “The film is way more my personality and closer to anything that I’ve done.”
Charlize said of her film roles: “The bizarre thing is that I’ve always had kind of a sick, twisted sense of humour. But my work, for some reason, has always veered to the dramatic stuff.
“I think that’s because I’ve never really been that driven by genre, but I find that I want to play people that feel real. I do think in comedy it’s harder to find non-caricatures.
“I always said that I would love to do something like that kind of comedy that the Coen brothers do, that more character study stuff. And that stuff is hard to come by”.

Source: UK Press

Not for herself, mind you. No, the actress, who has been single nearly two years since breaking up with her long-time beau, actor Stuart Townsend, is perfectly happy to be on her own, thank you very much.
But she’s beyond excited to be heading up to northern California to join the wedding party of a best friend.

“It’s incredible,” Theron says. “I’m a bridesmaid; her brother is her maid of honor!”
And if this bridesmaid is never a bride, well, that’s OK with her.
“I’ve never wanted to get married so I don’t get nostalgic about that,” she explains. “I want a long-term relationship, which I guess is what marriage is. But I don’t have the dream of the wedding and the dress and all of that.”
The actress curls up in black slacks and a black-striped top at a West Hollywood studio, as she unwinds after being photographed for this story. With flawless skin and smoky citrine eyes, she is — without even trying — one of the screen’s great beauties, a throwback to the cool-blonde allure of Hollywood legends like Grace Kelly and Kim Novak.
But despite her movie-star sheen, there is nothing too glossy about Theron in person. At 36, she seems self-assured and at ease with her place, not just in Hollywood, but in her very independent life.
She’s made about 30 films in 15 years, including memorable hits (The Italian Job, Hancock) and spectacular misses (Aeon Flux, The Astronaut’sWife). And while she’s grateful for her success — she won an Oscar and Golden Globe award for playing serial killer Aileen Wournos in 2003′s Monster while still in her 20s — she’s not overly impressed by her celebrity.
“There’s a shy part of me that people are always shocked by,” she says. “I’m really good in groups of 10. People go, ‘You don’t like going up on stage [at events]?’ And I’m like, ‘No, I want to puke.’ ”
Which makes her a far cry from the woman she portrays in the movie Young Adult, a dark comedy that opens nationwide Friday. In it, she plays a 37-year-old ex-prom queen and quasi-successful teen book author who lazes about her messy Minneapolis apartment watching reality TV and wondering why her life hasn’t amounted to more. Depressed, narcissistic, alcoholic and alone, she heads home to small-town Mercury, Minn., to rekindle a romance with her high-school boyfriend (Patrick Wilson), a happily married new father.
Despite this cringe-inducing behavior, Theron understands the pressures that face a single woman in her mid-30s.
“The great surprise is how other people respond to it,” she says with an ironic laugh. “They are more in a panic over it than I am. Sometimes you get wind of someone saying something about [having] children or being married. If you don’t have that sorted out [at my age], society kind of worries for you. We want to believe that has changed, but it hasn’t.”
Theron knows she isn’t alone here. “I’ve seen it with other women — this obsession with people like Jennifer Aniston. I feel bad for her. I don’t think she was ever in a panic about [not having kids]. Other people go into a panic about it. I get some of that — sometimes even from friends. It’s funny because I’m really enjoying this process of my life right now. It’s not that things haven’t worked out. I chose to leave my relationship. Nobody put a gun to my head. I’m living this life right now by choice.”
A small-town girl herself, Theron describes her early years in Benoni, South Africa, as turbulent. “Everybody knew my dad was an alcoholic which played a part in how kids behaved towards me. Kids are mean about stuff like that. So I always felt like an outsider — you walk around with a lot of shame you shouldn’t have to carry because it has nothing to do with you.” (Things turned tragic when she was 15 and her mother shot her enraged father, killing him in self-defense.)
Winning a modeling competition at 16 was her ticket out of the turmoil. With her mom in tow, she moved to Milan and traveled throughout Europe modeling. After a year, they moved to New York, then Miami, and in 1994 they hit L.A. where she soon made a small splash in Tom Hanks’ first directorial effort, That Thing You Do!
Theron credits her mother, Gerta, for keeping her humble. “She loves it when I call my job ‘work,’ ” Theron says with an accompanying eye roll. “She’s like, ‘Really? Have you been in the mines? Because that’s work.’ ” [See "Mother knows best" below.] Today, mother and daughter live “two minutes” apart.
Theron appears to have learned her lessons well. As Young Adult screenwriter Diablo Cody attests, “Charlize is not entitled at all. She’s incredibly down to earth. If I looked like her, I would be a raving egomaniac.”
If anything, the actress looks back on her younger years with refreshing perspective. “My 20s felt really rushed,” she says. “I couldn’t get there fast enough. You are filled with angst in your 20s. You’re trying to find your place in the world. Now, but it’s so different. I actually enjoyed each experience way more than I did back then.”
She smiles knowingly, then adds, “I don’t worry so much anymore. The older you get, the less you sweat the small stuff. All my girlfriends and I talk about this. I wouldn’t want to go back to my 20s. I’m in a really nice place where I can enjoy the moment for what it is. My 30s have been about taking it as it comes. I have this complete openness to whatever is coming my way.”
More than anything, she’s pleased and proud that she’s lived life fully and for herself. Concludes the actress: “I really lived my life the way I wanted to — mistakes and all.”
Walking outside to her black SUV, Theron can’t wait to get back to her new loves. Though earlier this year, she was linked romantically to Ryan Reynolds, the most important males in her life at the moment are the two rescue dogs she adopted recently, a pit bull named Blue and a border terrier mix, Berkeley. If she has her way, she and her mom will spend the holidays quietly at home this year “with my two new boys.”
For now, that’s about as domestic as Charlize Theron is planning to get.

Source: USA Today

The ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ star – who split from boyfriend Stuart Townsend in January 2010 after almost nine years of dating – claims until now she has been in relationships for almost 20 years but has never casually dated.

She explained: “I don’t think I’ve actually been on a date with somebody I didn’t know. I’ve been on dates with my boyfriend of course but I’ve never really dated.

“I’ve been in serious relationships from the time I was 19 and I’m single for the first time in my life since then. I had to make a real conscious effort to rediscover myself and it’s hard. I’m a creature who has really found her comfort in relationships.”

While she was sad that she and Stuart could no longer make it work, Charlize admitted she is now “at peace” with the separation.

She added in an interview with the Daily Mirror newspaper: “It was sinking but I gave it a fight to try and make it work. That was my priority. I’ve never re-connected with an ex and I feel that once I’m done I’m really done.

“I’m really at peace and feeling good about it. All of us go through darkness but that doesn’t make you dark.

“There’s something really powerful in being OK with being alone, especially for women.”

Although she has been part of a couple almost continuously for the past 20 years, the stunning 36-year-old actress revealed she actually struggled to find a boyfriend in her teens.

She said: “I played the song ‘Tears on my Pillow’ over and over and I felt like it was the end of the world because I didn’t have a boyfriend. It was just so heartbreaking.”

Source: Times of India

Charlize Theron has said she is nothing like the dark and serious roles she plays.
The South African actress, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster, will soon be seen on screen as the Evil Queen in Snow White And The Huntsman.
“I think a lot of people have an assumption that because my work is sometimes very dark and heavy, that is who I am, but that is so not me,” she told the Daily Mirror.
“The first thing directors always tell me is, ‘Wow, I had no idea that you were actually not dark and heavy and that you have a sense of humour’, which I always find so ironic. I think of myself as having a pretty twisted sense of humour.”
The star, 36, who started out as a ballet dancer and model, also revealed she’s grateful for the luxuries her career has afforded her.
“There’s not a day goes by that I don’t understand how fortunate I am and how many actors have to struggle because it’s their survival,” she added.
“To be in a position where I can take three years off is such a luxury that I’m incredibly grateful for.”

Source: The Press Association

I’ve added two new sets of photoshoots of Charlize in the gallery section. One is a photoshoot used for LA Times and the other photoshoot features co-star Patton Oswalt. This photoshoot looked super fun to take! It’s worth checking out. Enjoy!

I’ve finally added the live interview of Charlize with Jason Reitman. It basically took up to 8 parts! Here are the links to watch the videos.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
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Part 8

Hello folks, in case you missed it yesterday, Charlize and Jason Reitman was interviewed by New York Times about their latest film, “Young Adult”. You can watch the full interview below if you missed it.

I’ve also added photos of Charlize from the New York premiere and her appearance from Late Show with David Letterman. I’ll be adding videos of the interview including videos from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Today Show and Live with Kelly. So stay tuned!