Charlize Theron reveals director pressured her with wardrobe tests to make her more “fuckable”

Charlize Theron is one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood and her current prominent position in the world of cinema is a reflection of the success she has achieved over the years. The South African performer is about to release ‘The School of Good and Evil’, a fantastic Netflix movie coming in October this year, and is immersed in the filming of ‘The old guard 2’, a sequel to the 2020 hitfor the same streaming platform.

Theron has never held her tongue when it comes to exposing injustices occurring in the entertainment industry, particularly against women, and in a new interview at Harper’s Bazaar revealed that a director pressured her during costume rehearsal for a movie to sexualize her. Without revealing the title of the film or the name of the filmmaker, which specifies that it is a man, Theron recalls the experience of her, which took place at the beginning of her career as an actress.

“I particularly remember a film in which the director kept calling me to do one rehearsal after another”details the actress. “It was so obvious it had to do with my sexuality and how they were going to screw me for the movie. And when I was starting, that was the norm.”.

Although it does not provide more specific details, Theron refers to a pre-Me Too incident, when this type of situation occurred continuously and with complete impunity, since they have been assimilated to something normal in the industry and could have negative consequences if publicly reported. On this very topic, Theron starred in 2019 “The Scandal (Bombshell)”, based on the stories of several women of the Fox News network, who have sued CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment.

In the same interview, Theron explains it it always bothered him that men made decisions about the clothes he wore from the beginning of his career. “Having no control over what you wear is something that has really pissed me off for years”Says the “Mad Max: Fury Road” actress. “For a boy to force you to do a dress rehearsal in front of him is disheartening”. Finally, Theron explains that, in his early days, there was never a conversation about the process of selecting the wardrobe he should wear: “They just told me: ‘This is what you’re going to wear'”.

Other similar experiences

Charlize Theron won the Best Actress Oscar for her chilling work on “Monster,” where she plays real-life killer Aileen Wuornos. Speaking of that experience, the actress recalls the struggle she had to carry on to preserve the vision of the director, Patty Jenkins, against the pressure of the studio, which she believes, I was more interested in creating “a hot lesbian movie between me and Christina Ricci”. This led her in the same year to create her own production company, Denver & Delilah, to have more control over her projects and avoid this kind of situation. In ‘The Old Guard 2’, produced by his company, 85% of the team is made up of women.

Theron didn’t cut himself when he said it she turned down a role in “Wonder Woman” because she was offered to play Diana’s mother, played by Gal Gadot, when she was 43; role that ultimately went to Connie Nielsen, who is ten years her senior. “It’s a great example of how Hollywood slaps you when you start getting old”Said the actress in her day.