Charlize Theron Discusses Personal History and Ballet Advocacy Amidst New Film Role
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Charlize Theron plays the latest in a long line of movie characters to confront the harsh realities of the Australian landscape, in Netflix’s empty-calorie action drama Apex – only to discover that the real terror lies in the locals. Just ask John Grant from Wake in Fright or the backpackers in Wolf Creek. In Apex, director Baltasar Kormákur depicts neither the land nor the locals in particularly interesting ways, bathing the former in the glossy, sun-lit sheen of a Mountain Dew commercial and serving up a villain barely distinguishable from the usual backwoods bogeymen.
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NYT ArtsApex Directed by Baltasar Kormákur Action, Thriller R In “Apex,” a friendly guide turns out to be a killer hunting a woman in the southeastern Australian rainforest. There’s not much more you need to know. This is a movie whose summary is enough to intimate the full experience of watching it: an hour and a half of having one’s basest and most primal pleasures and emotions tickled. Think sweaty palms from watching someone dangling from a cliff’s edge, the shudder of bones cracking and the skin-crawling sensation of seeing Taron Egerton turn into a skeevy, animalistic Norman Bates.
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Actress Charlize Theron says in a recent interview that she witnessed her mother fatally shoot her father when she was 15 years old.
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The Guardian CultureShe described in detail the day of the shooting, when her father came to their house in June 1991 in Benoni, near Johannesburg, and attempted to break in. Theron said: “He shot through the steel doors to get in, making it very clear that he was going to kill us … [My mother] came into my bedroom. The two of us were holding the door with our bodies because there wasn’t a lock on it. And he just stepped back and started shooting through the door. And this is the crazy thing: not one bullet hit us.”
Fox News EntertainmentCharlize Theron is recounting the harrowing details of the day her mother killed her father.
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Actor and former ballet dancer Charlize Theron has joined the chorus of disapproval aimed at Timothée Chalamet over his remarks that appeared to disrespect performers of ballet and opera.
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Vanity FairTheron isn't the only person who's taken Chalamet to task—just the latest. Renowned institutions such as La Scala in Milan and the Paris Opera took turns expressing their vexation at the Marty Supreme star, as did fellow actors like Jamie Lee Curtis. “His comments are silly, and I’m sorry that they’re going to be a bit of his legacy now,” the Halloween star told The Hollywood Reporter. ”I’m sure he regrets the comment because you can’t throw those art forms under a bus. You can’t do it. They’re too important."
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Theron, who studied as a teenager at the Joffrey Ballet in New York before a knee injury prevented her from continuing with the art form, also commented on the physical price dancers pay. “It taught me to be tough. It’s borderline abusive. There were several times that I had blood infections from blisters that just never healed. And you don’t get a day off. I’m literally talking about bleeding through your shoes.”
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Vanity FairBut ballet's benefits outweigh the heartache, Theron says. Dance is “something that you have to practice every single day,” she said. “The mindset of just, you don’t give up, there’s no other option, you keep going.” Originally published by Vanity Fair France
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01 The Guardian Culture Sasha accepts his advice, heads home, and spends the next 80 minutes nursing a cuppa and staring into a log fire. Kidding, kidding – she ploughs ahead with her doomed adventure, soon encountering riff-raff at the local shops – not quite Deliverance-style yokels, but certainly not to be trusted on matters of dental hygiene or knowledge of Russian literature. One of them is Ben (Taron Egerton), seemingly the nicest of the bunch, who points her toward a secluded camping spot he describes as a “well kept secret”. Sasha is grateful, unaware this is the survival-drama equivalent of taking candy from a stranger.
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02 NYT Arts That dynamic between Egerton and Theron — of a psycho versus an action star — is enough to animate the first half of the film, even if one wishes Kormakur had a couple more flourishes up his sleeve. He is a somewhat mechanical director who, in creating tension, relies mostly on the plain facts of danger built into the script or the forces of nature — a head thumped upon a rock in a rushing river, a snowstorm thrashing the side of a mountain — rather than on making those elements come alive in particularly cinematic terms.
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03 Washington Times Culture Ms. Theron told New York Times Magazine that she chose to speak about the incident because domestic violence is “prevalent in a lot of homes” and talking about it “makes other people not feel alone.”
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04 Vanity Fair Chalamet's comments didn't surface in the media until the second week of March, several days after Academy Awards voting had closed. Still, some blame those statements for his best actor loss to Michael B. Jordan at the Oscars 2026.
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05 Fox News Entertainment Nicole Kidman is opening up about the day she found out her mother had died. The 58-year-old actress spoke at the live speaker series, HISTORYTalks 2026, which is organized by the History Channel, on Saturday about a number of things, including learning of her mother's death just prior to accepting the best actress award for "Babygirl" at the Venice Film Festival in September 2024.
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