#charlize-theron

#charlize-theron

Theron is sipping kombucha. The ostensible reason for our conversation, via video call this winter afternoon, is to discuss 2026. In the film Apex the Academy Award-winning actor will play Sasha, a rock climber who is menaced, in the badlands of Australia, by two unrelenting forces: the wily hunter character (Taron Egerton) and her own enormous grief. Sasha is a modern woman: stubborn, powerful, individualistic, solitary.

Turning a beloved animated series into live action is always tricky. For every success, there's something like the 2010 film version of Avatar: The Last Airbender, a complete calamity. But arguably, the adaptation process gets trickier with source material that edges into the transgressive. So, in 2005, when the 1990s dark, animated cyberpunk series Aeon Flux became a movie starring Charlize Theron, something strange happened.

I don't want what they had, and then also being very honest with myself and understanding that I did not have the capability of being healthy in a relationship.

My children have zero respect for me. It's just unbelievable, I feel like I'm pretty humble, but every once in a while I'm like 'there's a f-king Oscar right there.' They are so not impressed with me.