Charlize Theron looks smashing sleek while lounging poolside as the latest cover girl for Los Angeles Confidential December 2011 magazine edition. In it, the star of the soon to be released film, "Young Adult" answers some pretty candid questions for the magazine.
On how she attains such an impressive work ethic.. “There’s a great tenacity when I tackle something, and I don’t half ass anything. When I work, I work really, really hard. And I think that - combined with the people who believe in me - has been really a great blessing.”
She opens up about how she wants to be a long-lasting actress... “I don’t know if I feel I’m here to stay, but that’s a good thing. That keeps you on your toes. I think this is an industry where you can’t get too comfortable. It’s constantly churning with great talent, and you’ve got to raise the bar and try to push yourself. I don’t ever want to kind of feel, ‘Yeah, I’m here. I made it.’ I think that would probably be the time to retire.”
On her days of growing up while in school..."I grew up quickly," recalling leaving her parents’ South African farm to attend the School of Performing Arts in Johannesburg. “It doesn’t matter where you go to school, there’s always the popular girl, but we didn’t really have the prom queen and prom king, and all of that stuff. There were different pressures. I went to a pretty strict art school—it was really conservative. You had to get on your knees so the teachers could make sure your school uniform was below your knees. It was not as relaxed as I think schools are in America. I definitely grew up a lot faster than some of my friends did.”
Theron on Mavis, her character in Young Adult—a 37-year-old woman still clinging to the childish habits of her popular-girl past...“She never really grew up. She went through life writing teen novels and never evolved. You can’t expect somebody who has that set of tools to go about life in any way better than the way she does.” But as real, relatable, and eminently flawed as Mavis seems, “I don’t relate to everything. The way we go about things in our lives is very different. But at the core, I had empathy for how she went about it, which was sometimes brutal. She’s like this horrible car accident you can’t take your eyes off of. But I really loved the fact she’s a girl in her mid-thirties and [am interested in] the way the world looks at a girl that age who’s still single. But her tool set is very different from mine.”
On her upcoming role as The Evil Queen to Kristen Stewart's dwarf-friendly fairy-tale heroine in Snow White & the Huntsman... “This has been a great sandbox to play in— huge sets and great costumes, and yet very grounded material,” she says, offering a tip of the crown to the inspiration behind her take on the beauty-obsessed monarch. “There was definitely something [about the character] that always reminded me of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. I played with the idea of that cabin fever, being stuck in a castle, and slowly losing your mind, your obsessions eating you up, and becoming capable of doing something you didn’t necessarily think you would be capable of.”
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"Young Adult's" official film trailer.
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