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As promised, here’s Charlize Theron’s W Magazine cover – she and Brad Pitt have alternate covers for the February “Movie Issue”. If I’m choosing between which cover I like more – my pick is Brad’s. At least Brad’s is an interesting image, stylistically, which we haven’t seen from him in a while. Charlize is always like this – hyper-styled, overly made up, in a gown, looking haughty. It’s boring.
Charlize is in an interesting place right now, I think. She took some time off, she got out of a long-term relationship with Stuart Townsend, she maybe got some stuff tweaked on her face (more on that in a minute), and it seems like she really, really wants to be included in the Best Actress nominations this year for Young Adult. As such, Charlize is trying to be a bit more relatable, and little less haughty. Thus, this charming W Magazine interview:
Lynn Hirschberg: In Young Adult, you play Mavis Gary, who is stunning on the outside and a mess on the inside. Returning to the small town in Minnesota where she reigned as the beauty/bitch of her high school, Mavis sets out to reclaim her ex-boyfriend, now married. She is self-involved, delusional, and generally hard to like, which is rare for a female protagonist in a comedy. Do you have to like a character to play her?
Charlize Theron: I liked Mavis, but no, I don’t think I need to like my characters. I do think empathy is very important. It’s crucial to understand circumstance and story to grasp the role in a truthful manner. Your characters are like your children: Sometimes they make you proud, and other times, you think, Oh, really?! In Young Adult, I wanted to show some cringe-worthy moments that only women will get.Like the “cutlets.” Mavis wears flesh-colored glue-on gel-filled “breasts” over her real ones.
I wear those! If you don’t have boobs, you wear those cutlets. I heard a story of a girl who was on a date, started making out, and thought, Oh, he’s going to touch the cutlets! So she went to the bathroom to take them off, but her purse was too small to put them in there. I always thought that was a funny image, a woman not knowing what to do with these things that you stick onto your boobs. It’s just the most bizarre, unsexy thing there is—so I added that to Mavis.Growing up in South Africa, were you always tall and blonde and beautiful?
For the first eight years of my life, I didn’t have front teeth. I was pretty sick as an infant, and antibiotics rotted them. But then I started to take dance classes, and I eventually got some teeth [laughs]. When I was 16, I went to Milan to model.Did you dream of being an actress?
I wanted to be a ballerina, but I was too tall, and I had too many injuries. What I loved as a ballerina was telling stories, and I could also do that with acting, so I eventually moved to L.A.You had a star-is-born moment as a result of your first role. For 2 Days in the Valley, you were on a billboard over Sunset Boulevard for a very long time. What was the audition for that movie like?
I remember I was in a catsuit. I’d never auditioned before, and I almost brought a bottle of ketchup and squirted it all over myself for the scene where I got shot. I looked like a maniac. It was a dying scene, so I barged through the door and started crawling on the floor. I think they were too scared not to give me the role.
[From W Magazine]
For a week, I’d like to know what it was like to be in need of cutlets. I’ve been stacked like a brick sh-thouse since sixth grade. I just imagine that it would be really fun to try on all kinds of different blouses and tops when you have small boobs. The world is run by the small-breasted, and I’ve always been curious about those cutlets.
Anyway, Charlize was all over the place this weekend, likely campaigning for a Golden Globe (and Oscar nomination), and probably partying her ass off too. I’m including photos of Charlize at the W Magazine event Friday night (she’s wearing black Alexander McQueen) and the BAFTA LA event last night (in yellow Stella McCartney). She looks really pretty and soft in the McQueen – she usually doesn’t wear her hair down on red carpets, and it’s a nice length now. The Stella dress is fug, though. I don’t get the waist ruffle. As for Charlize’s alleged tweaking – in some angles, I really see it around her mouth, but straight-on, she looks fine.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Charlize Theron, Fashion
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Definitely the most beautiful and one of the most talented actresses in hollywood right now, in my humble opinion.
I’d take her cover over greasy Brad Pitt any day of the week.
I do get why some people don’t like her, she’s an intimidating, ice-cold bitch by all accounts. Which makes me like her even more.
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The yellow dress, hair, and dramatic lip makeup combination is absolute perfection on her. Even her accessories are perfect.
But on the W cover, why on earth did they feel the need to f*** up her eyes, changing even the color, to that disturbing travesty of weirdness? Her eyes are lovely as is!
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I don’t think she’s been tweaked. I was looking at some older pictures to compare and she looks the same to me.
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magazine cover doesn’t look anything like her!!!!
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The magazine cover looks more like Monaco’s Princess Charlene.
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Got to laugh…..the color on the cover of W is the exact color of my eyes in fact my eyes are lighter….Hee Hee… finely I’m fashionible..!!!!
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She’s gorgeous, but there’s something odd about the lips, no matter what angle she’s being photographed at.
In some of the pictures of her in the black dress, she looks a little…Christy Brinkley-ish. Which kills me because, regardless of her personality, Theron is beautiful and talented.
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She is without a doubt gorgeous. That magazine cover makes her look like a mannequin. Not good.
I’m kind of curious to see Young Adult now.
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I like Brad’s cover better as well.
Some of you might be interested (or not) to know that brick sh-thouses replaced peat sh-thouses after the Romans invaded Ireland. The bricks of stone didn’t smell as bad when set afire but weren’t as easy to stack as peat. Thus the differentiation between the terms brick and peat sh-thouses.
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Just like Angelina she is just beautiful !! Demi take a look at these women, this is lovely, not like Demi and her ugly self !!
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I’ve always had small boobs, and now that I’m older I’m glad because the girls can’t hang that far!
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and that’s pure truth
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Beautiful!!
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She’s gorgeous. I think I see a tiny more poutiness to the lips, and a fine-drawn stretch at the sides of her mouth – but it’s an excellent little tweak, not overdone. That cover photo is totally over-’shopped however.
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this is how perfection looks like. i think. this woman is beautiful head to toes. she is aging gracefully too, and i like her more now than 10 years ago.
you know why i like her even more? for her lack of drama? we rarely see her and her ass anywhere.
i bow.
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There are just a handful of women in my opinion that can take a picture without all that photoshop and she is one of them. WHY in the world did they mess up that cover. She is so beautiful and that picture just make her look unreal. Plus the photos inside are terrible too. The shots are so dark. you can barely make her out in one of them.
Save the photoshopping for the women that need it. Charlize does not.
I’m buying the one with Brad. I have too.
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I couln’t agree more.
The W cover is more of an avatar than an actual image of her.
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Hey Kaiser – you ever get that week of being in the “Cutlet Needy” group, let a gal know so I can too? Like you, I’ve always been stacked (hit 6 foot and a DD at 11. My poor dad likely had a harder time with it than even I did. Now an adult, 6’2 and a FF isn’t a picnic either!) and have always longed to wear the cute stuff. But for all the world SEEMS Barbie-centric, they just don’t make clothes for it.
Charlize is one of my least favorite actresses out there, but I have to admit – she at least answered a question I always had. Those cutlets are GLUED on, to the skin? I thought they just got shoved into a bra! Huh. Learn something new every day.
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LOL! 5’11 – 6 feet and DD. Not fun in the 8th grade where everybody was 5’4 and A/B-cups.
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Yeah – made worse in my case because I went straight from 4th to 6th grade, then got moved forward again in jr high (until my folks decided to just say screw it and homeschool me) – so tallest, bustiest, and YOUNGEST by a whole heck of a lot.
To this day I can remember how upset by poor dad got when a rumor started going around town that he was cheating on mom with some busty brunette…. folks not realizing they were talking about his 12 year old daughter he was taking out for icecream.
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LOL! OMG, I don’t even know what to say! Your poor Dad! People always thought I was dating my five year older brother whenever we walked to school together (eeeeeewwww), needless to say we didn’t go together very often after that
And once at my 1st grade graduation one lady came up to me and said: ”Sweetie, the sixth grade line is over there”. I told her I was actually in the 1st grade and she just raised her eyebrows at me before leaving. She probably thought I had flunked the 1st grade five times or something (I was monster tall! I have the funniest picture where of that day I’m twice as tall as everybody else). Which isn’t true because I was one of the best students and was offered to skip a grade. Which I didn’t because I liked being with my friends.
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@Jenna:
“…folks not realizing they were talking about his 12 year old daughter he was taking out for icecream.”
Oh. Mah. Gawd.
You have my deepest sympathies. And I laughed a bit. I’m sorry for that.
I reached 5’2″ at aged ten, and just stayed there. Reached a C at eleven, now an E cup at 22.
But I’ve always just looked like a child with a really curvy body (even now I can’t buy alcohol), so I never got what you got.
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@ Jenna
That’s terrible. What herp derp town did you live in? Rhetorical you don’t have to answer but OMG people suck!
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She’s the only celebrity who I’m actually in awe of. I was watching the Italian job last night and she’s not just stunning, but she seems like a cool chick.
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Funny how on a couple of thread people were trying to connect her to Brad.
Why with all the talk of how hot she (Charlize) is and Michael Fassbender Why no cry of the two of them hooking up or working together. They are both single.
hmmm that should be the tree people are barking up.
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They have worked together, on Prometheus just last year. And I for one would put her with someone much better looking than Brad or Michael, maybe Matt Bomer?
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I thought he was gay.. not sure so not starting rumors.
I have liked him for years. Saw him on Guiding Light (my favorite soap) he played Ben Reade.
but I think Charlize would be damn luck to get a Brad or Michael.
just saying.
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Ah, I saw a pic with him and some kids a while back and just assumed he was straight. Never mind then.
Charlize is about as A-list as it gets, and because I don’t see her ever having a hollywood showmance and allowing herself to become tabloid fodder, I also don’t think she’d have much interest in someone like Brad Pitt and the paparazzi circus that is his life. I get that you’re a *big fan*, but the man’s pushing 50, doesn’t seem clever or interesting, and I just don’t see the hot.
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HA! One year for my birthday, my mom gave me cutlets (I had asked for roller blades). They were horrifying! It was like stuffing raw chicken breasts into your bra. Sort of like the story Charlize told, I was frightened about the prospect of being on a date, the guy slipping his hand up my shirt and coming away with a cutlet. So, not wanting to ‘falsely advertise’ my chest, I returned them and got a sweater instead.
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She’s stunning! I believe she’s got some botox done, but so have I.
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I don’t like either dress. Little things make me hate them. I don’t like “my bra is showing” look and shoes for the black dress and the cutouts for the yellow.
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She’s the most beautiful woman in Hollywood, by a long shot.
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WORD!!! she is so beautiful that she looks surreal!
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The tweaked effect probably comes from Fotoshop by Adobé, otherwise she seems normal.
And she looks like a doll. Gorgeous.
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Dresses are fug. She’s really beautiful and I don’t think she’s tweaked anything.
Yea her hair is a nice length; its fake. She has Barbie hair. I don’t get how people can’t tell extensions from real hair.
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Ridiculously gorgeous. Don’t care for either dress, but she rocks both of them.
It may be photoshopped, but I find that cover a lot more interesting than the other.
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GORG!!!!!!
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Yes, she’s tweaked her lips, and they look great. Part of age is thinning lips which then begin to highlight the lines around your mouth, fuller lips get rid of the problem.
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Charlize is gorgeous, so why make her wear the blue contacts and airbrush her until she looks like mannequin????
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I don’t like this pic of Charlize. She is far more beautiful than this Photoshopped stranger. I don’t know why they did that to her, she’s gorgeous and they made her look like some phony paper doll. I don’t get it.
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I think she’s gorgeous and I thought she was great in “Young Adult”…she’s definitely not afraid to play an unlikeable character. She’s had some botox done, though (like almost all celebrities over 35).
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she’s pretty, i like her and her acting, certainly not fame hungry like most d-Lister, when you have it, you don’t need to always be in our faces.
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LOVE the red lipstick and yellow dress. Two colors I cannot pull off.
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She looks amazing…and untweaked. Or at the very least modestly tweaked.
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Who knows what any celebrity really looks like? Photoshopping is out of control. She is gorgeous looking in these pictures. That yellow dress is incredible.
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Wow she looks so gorgeous in thos pics. Especially the yellow dress with that lipstick. Considering in candids she doesn’t look plastic at all, I put it down to make up. Every actress looks like they’ve been injecting botox or wearing shiny makeup. Even if she did, so what? She looks drop dead gorgeous and can move her face! You NEVER post about how botoxed Angelina Jolie looks. See her at the Globes? So botoxed looking. Look at photos from 5 years ago and Charlize’s mouth is exactly the same.
Also, you are making judgments on her personality constantly. She seems to have more of a sense of humor than your stuck up Angelina Jolie. Everyone who works with Charlize comments on how down to earth she is and funny. Maybe you’re just projecting this ice cold image to her when she’s really the kind of girl to laugh and have a few drinks with according to people who actually know her.
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