Charlize Theron Says a Male Director Repeatedly Tried to Make Her Look ‘More F-able’
Charlize Theron calls out a male director who made repeated attempts to make her look "more f*ckable" on set: “Having some guy make you have a fitting almost in front of them-stuff like that, it’s really belittling." https://t.co/GDBV6N6B1X
- Variety (@Variety) September 23, 2022
Charlize Theron revealed to a “belittling” experience from her early days as an actor
An unnamed male director made repeated attempts to have her look more “fuckable” on set.
“Having absolutely no control over what you’re wearing is a big one that really fucking annoyed me for years. Having some guy make you have a fitting almost in front of them-stuff like that, it’s really belittling. When I started, there was no conversation around it. It was like, ‘This is what you’re wearing.’ I remember one movie in particular, this male director who just kept bringing me in, fitting after fitting after fitting after … And it was just so obvious that it was to do with my sexuality and how fuckable they could make me in the movie. And when I started out, that was just kind of the norm.”
She founded her production company, Denver & Delilah, in 2003 after her experience making “Monster” and sensing the film’s financiers wanting “a hot lesbian movie with me and Christina Ricci” instead of the more nuanced vision director Patty Jenkins intended. Theron ensured “Monster” didn’t become what the financiers wanted.
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