#charlize-theron

#charlize-theron

"It's so strange - all the memories are there. And it's not that I don't try and think about it, but going in such a linear manner, it becomes almost more clear when you talk about it this way."

Charlize Theron, who stars as a Florida serial killer in the upcoming independent film 'Monster' and then will star opposite Geoffrey Rush in an HBO Films project about the late actor Peter Sellers, has purchased a beachfront Malibu home. The actress paid close to $3.4 million, according to a real estate mailer and area residents.

Theron is sipping kombucha. The ostensible reason for our conversation, via video call this winter afternoon, is to discuss 2026. In the film Apex the Academy Award-winning actor will play Sasha, a rock climber who is menaced, in the badlands of Australia, by two unrelenting forces: the wily hunter character (Taron Egerton) and her own enormous grief. Sasha is a modern woman: stubborn, powerful, individualistic, solitary.

Turning a beloved animated series into live action is always tricky. For every success, there's something like the 2010 film version of Avatar: The Last Airbender, a complete calamity. But arguably, the adaptation process gets trickier with source material that edges into the transgressive. So, in 2005, when the 1990s dark, animated cyberpunk series Aeon Flux became a movie starring Charlize Theron, something strange happened.

I don't want what they had, and then also being very honest with myself and understanding that I did not have the capability of being healthy in a relationship.

My children have zero respect for me. It's just unbelievable, I feel like I'm pretty humble, but every once in a while I'm like 'there's a f-king Oscar right there.' They are so not impressed with me.