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“CAMALEONTICA SUL SET

COME NELLA VITA, L’ESPLOSIVA
BIONDA PREMIO OSCAR”.

In the nineties a malicious TV commercial, that of Martini Bian-
co, would have launched a beauty still little known at the time,
such as the Oscar-winning actress, Charlize Theron. From the
complicated childhood in South Africa, to the f rst steps on
the Italian fashion catwalks in 1990 in Positano winning the
New Model Today title, an international competition for emer-
ging models. Charlize knows that fashion is not her future,
her heart still beats fast for dance, a real great passion since
she was a child. From Milan she f ies to New York but soon
sets aside the dream of dancing for a knee problem. And it is
there that her mother Gerda suggests her to try with the cine-
ma: “You like to tell stories, you like movies. Give it a go!” she
says, handing her a ticket to Hollywood. Shortly thereafter, we
are in 1994, her debut with a small role in Grano rosso sangue
3 (1995) and two more important roles in Due giorni senza
respiro (1996) and That Thing You Do! (1996). Al Pacino and
Woody Allen, among others, will direct her on the set. She will
be alongside Johnny Depp in The Astronaut’s Wife (1999), to
star in Monster (2003), the true story of the American serial
killer Aileen Wuornos, an interpretation that earned her the
Oscar for best actress. Chameleonic, adoptive mother and
single by choice, as well as social activist, we will soon see
her in action in the f lm The Old Guard f lm adaptation of the
homonymous comic by Greg Rucka, expected on the Netf ix
platform for the summer. An action-fantasy in which she plays
the immortal warrior Andromache of Scythia: “We are women,
we are warriors, I show our strength, our courage “.