Charlize Theron's "daring" career honored by Hollywood
Los Angeles - South African actress Charlize Theron received the American Cinematheque Award, one of Hollywood's most prestigious awards, on Friday in California.
This distinction crowns a "daring" career during which she did not hesitate to take the opposite view of her advantageous physique to play complex and dark roles.
This was particularly the case for her interpretation, in "Monster", of a serial killer prostitute, which earned her the 2004 Oscar for best actress.
"She's the most daring actress I've ever worked with, and possibly the most daring person I've ever met," director Jason Reitman said Friday night at the ceremony in Beverly Hills. , who had the South African under him on the sets of "Young Adult" and "Tully".
"I'm upset, I need a cocktail!" Charlize Theron commented to AFP in the middle of an audience of stars, including Kristen Stewart, Seth Rogen and David Oyelowo.
“I shared a lot of things with these people who are here tonight,” she added.
The 44-year-old actress will soon, alongside Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie, star in "Scandal", a film retracing the fall of Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes, accused of sexual harassment.
"The script, when I read it, seemed to me anchored in the news", she confided while the movement #MeToo born of the accusations against the almighty producer Harvey Weinstein turned upside down the movie industry.
Charlize Theron was 15 when her mother killed her father, who was attacking them violently.
Born in the small South African town of Benoni, she barely spoke English - her native language is Afrikaan - when she arrived in Los Angeles in the 1990s.
