Obviously I was born with functional eyes, so I’m aware that Charlize Theron is what most of society would consider “hot”. She’s thin, she’s blonde, she manages to project a very laid-back yet simultaneously hyper-glamorous image, yada yada. She does nothing for me personally, but I get that she’s an attractive lady and I accept it. What I don’t accept, however, is her fuckery in the new issue of British GQ, in which she moans about how being hot is such a burden because she just can’t get good movie roles since Hollywood… doesn’t want to hire pretty actresses?
“Jobs with real gravitas go to people that are physically right for them and that’s the end of the story. How many roles are out there for the gorgeous, fucking, gown-wearing eight-foot model? When meaty roles come through, I’ve been in the room and pretty people get turned away first.”
Let’s all just keep in mind here that Charlize has starred in the likes of Monster (which won her an Oscar just for putting on “ugly” makeup) and Mad Max: Fury Road, but sure, OK, she’s hard done by. There’s not a whole stigma where women who DON’T look like Charlize Theron struggle with self-hatred and discrimination in Hollywood to the point where they can’t even get in the casting door. It’s being hot like Charlize that’s the real downer!
It’s kinda crazy to me how someone who seems like she’d possess at least a modicum of intelligence just says something so colossally stupid. She needs to hire a better PR team that insists that bullshit like this gets edited out, that’s for sure.