Charlize Theron bores the shit out of me. I know she’s gorgeous and scandal-free except for her childhood in South Africa, but she just seems like an uninteresting person. I watched her entire David Letterman interview from last night hoping there would be some tidbit that I could report on, because it’s all Elliot Spitzer today, but no, she just droned on in a flat voice about how she worked hard to earn her US Citizenship and how she got wasted with the Hasty Pudding guys dressed in drag. She managed to make even that incident sound completely matter of fact. Maybe she’s depressed or just having an off day, but the title for her latest movie, Sleepwalking, sounds like it describes her to a T.
OK! Magazine has some quotes Charlize gave while doing the press for her film. She talks about people who lose weight and gain it back because they still have underlying issues they haven’t addressed or whatever, but it doesn’t come off as a nice statement the way I’m reading it. They say she’s making a parallel between her character wanting a boyfriend to make her whole and heavy people thinking their life will be complete once they lose weight.
But while her ups and downs have been purely career-driven, the Oscar winner, 32, empathizes with friends whose battles have been more personal. “I’ve been fascinated by people who lose a lot of weight,” she told OK! at a junket promoting her movie, drawing a link between her character’s belief that having a boyfriend will remove her woes and long-term dieters’ similar expectations about their bodies.
“There’s this excitement and joy when they have gastric bypass surgery, and they actually truly believe that once they lose the weight all their problems will be solved,” said the actress. She continued, “That’s just not how life works. Once they lose the weight, they realize that, and that’s why they go and gain the weight back.”
[From OK! Magazine]
I don’t understand why she would even bring that up. Why not talk about women who are told by society that they’re sad sacks unless they have a man? It just sounds kind of catty and judgmental to me, but maybe I’m in a bad mood and Charlize Theron is easy to target, since she’s so bland and perfect and all. Maybe she’s saying that no one’s life is perfect, including hers, and that somehow she can relate to those gastric surgery people from up on her high horse looking down.
It strikes me that the reason Theron is such a good actress is because she’s a blank slate. She doesn’t have a lot of her own personality to get in the way of whatever character she needs to be, and can just sort of absorb any role like a sponge.
Here’s Theron’s David Letterman interview. It’s only worth watching to look at her. She’s shown at the premiere of Sleepwalking on 3/6/08, thanks to PRPhotos.
Charlize Theron on Letterman part 1
Charlize Theron on Letterman part 2
I’ve always found her boring too.
She was hilarious as an MRF on Arrested Development.
Maybe she just likes to keep her life private 🙂 And hey Dave was asking her about her citizenship repeatedly so… what do u expect? Wow she looked stunning on the show.
I loved Arrested Development. Great smart funny show. Miss it.
She is an uneducated pretty face. Why would anyone think she would be interesting.
I remember reading interviews with her from years back when that famous South African bluntness made her sound desperately conceited – so it does sound like she’s toning it down.
But I do get what she says about the weight-loss thing, which is similar to why some people decide to change features through plastic surgery. I used to think “I would love to be XXX weight, then I’d look better, be more attractive, thing’s would be better.. blah blah” But apart from some clothes sitting better, the underlying stresses and issues with food, the opposite sex and self image hadn’t been dealt with and I gained it all back again.
damn she is a vision.
she may have chosen to reference weight because it seems like 95 percent of american women have obsessed about it at one time or another. doesn’t matter if we’re 350 pounds or 83. it’s not right and we may acknowledge it intellectually, but the little voices still inundate most of us with wishful thinking of what our lives would be like if only. . .
hmmm, she seems fine to me, not boring, just not annoying and high-pitched and over the top. She actually seemed somewhat intelligent and even laughed good-naturedly when Dave totally undercut the message of her movie by asking how she got her legs so shiny. I was bummed though, when I read once that she was more honored (or happier?) to be named sexiest woman alive than to have received the Oscar… maybe she’s not so smart afterall.
She’s so boring she only got 8 comments, LOL!
Whoops, mine makes nine.
Here’s who else is incredibly boring: Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Garner, Julia Roberts, et al.
I like her because shes boring. Almost everyone is boring. Makes her more normal
She strikes me as genuine and not out trying to make poeple like her. Unfortunately in our society women have to be self deprecating wishy washy people pleasers. She’s just honest. She cuts the shit. I love Charlize.
P.S. SNAPPYFISH- Yeah, so…. uneducated=boring??? How ostentatious of you.
I disagree. I saw her and thought she was cool, classy & funny. she is a great actress and has a longtime relationship. You are just into shipwreck celebs that are out of control. sorry, she is above that!
Hey in hollywood it’s considered a compliment to be boring. People say that about Robert De Niro in interviews too. The best actors are boring in interviews and leave that mystery. The ones that try so hard to be cutesty and charming are fake and annoying actors. Charlize keeps it real.
And she’s actually really hilarious and doens’t take herself too seriously. And also anyone should know exactly what she was saying with that weight analogy. Don’t be so sensitive and insecure to take offense to seomthing like that. Seh never said Sexiest woman alive was a better honor than winning an Oscar. You misquote her. She joked about the Harvard woman of the year honor.
She’s funny, classy and beautiful and an amazing actress and she’s got a great personality everyone who works with ehr says so and she’s shown it in lots of other interviews it’s just Letterman is the one who is a boring interview who asks her only boring questions and can’t even concentrate because he’s so focused on her great beauty. So blame Letterman not charlize. Charlize rocks.
This whole conversation is hilarious to me. I have a friend who is a PA on her new movie with Will Smith and she says Charlize is totally bulimic. She binges at the Craft Food services and is magically thin. That doesn’t come naturally people.
It’s a great observation that her lack of personality may make her a better actress, and ditto that concept with DeNiro.
Of course, it hasn’t worked with Vin Diesel.
I sense her being somewhat sophmoric and trying a touch too much to come across as smart.
But, she seems nice enough and everynow and then she can stun you with her good looks. Overall, a decent chick.
She’s always seemed a little bit “off” to me. Never really liked her and never been able to put my finger on what it is.
I think I have a deep suspicion that she’s a complete fake with little sincerity but I’ve no evidence for that, just a suspicion.
I cant believe you people! Just because the girl is beautiful, successfull, has great legs and whatever else and you cant fault her….she’s boring? Why is it that people have to look for something NASTY, otherwise, there’s just no FUN!!! Please people, wake up! Celebrate your lives, celebrate yourselves, if you look deep enough, you’ll find it! Let Charlize bask in her golden light, thats HER journey. And believe me, she has a price to pay for it! All you bitches, coming at her all the time!!! Lighten up, stop sitting around looking for misery! Today’s journalists should learn that that there are more worthy things to write about. What kind of a world do you want your kids to inhabit!!!
GG… Go take some xanax. This is a gossip site. We pick people apart. If you want to hear only great things about her go to a fan site.
The reason why you find Charlize boring is maybe because you are boribg yourself – I detect a hint of sour grapes here!
I agree, I think Charlize Theron has Bulimia, she has the tell-tale chipmunk pouches in almost every picture of her.