"The letters changed everything," Jenkins said. The night before she was executed, after 12 years on Death Row, Wuornos gave Jenkins hundreds of letters she had written, detailing her life and her thinking. After Wall convinces her to go back to prostitution, Wuornos is brutally raped and that incident sets off her killing spree.īefore her death, Wuornos was interviewed by Jenkins many times, and eventually the film maker won the confidence of the killer. The prostitute tries to straighten out her life, but her efforts to get a regular job are rebuffed. Wuornos is not homosexual, yet she is drawn to Wall because the woman offers her comfort and makes her feel as if her life is worthwhile. She puts away the gun and wanders into a local bar where she meets Selby Wall (Ricci), who has been sent to Florida to live with relatives because her parents believe it will help cure her lesbianism. As "Monster" opens, she is sitting under a freeway overpass, out of the pouring rain, contemplating taking her life with a pistol.īut her dreams of a better existence, of finding someone who will rescue her, save Wuornos from suicide. Wuornos's dreams, however, led only to sexual abuse, and by the age of 13, she was working as a prostitute on Florida's highways.
CHARLIZE THERON AS SERIAL KILLER IMAGES MOVIE
Theron says she hopes her 'makeover' for the movie won't obscure the film's themes. "Monster," from first-time film maker Patty Jenkins, is told from Wuornos's point of view, starting with her girlhood dreams of being swept off her feet by a Prince Charming who would see her inner, as well as outer, beauty. "The greatest thing I can hope for, which is an impossible thing to hope for because so much emphasis has been put on the transformation, but it's that people can go see it and get past all that," she said.
"Charlize Theron pulls off the year's most astounding screen makeover.," wrote New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden.įor her part, Theron is worried the talk about her make-up and weight will obscure the themes in the $5 million movie that released in parts of the United States over the Christmas holiday. Theron has already earned several film award nominations for the year's best actress, and critics are raving.
She blew herself up in order to survive," Theron said of Wuornos. "In court, she was kind of like a blow fish. In fact, what is most transforming is not the make-up or the weight gain, but the physical posturing - the swagger - that Theron, a trained ballet dancer, used to portray the tough exterior masking Wuornos's wounded and conflicted interior. "There's not enough fat or prosthetics in the world to hide a bad performance, and she is incredible in the movie," Theron's co-star, Christina Ricci, told reporters. The statuesque beauty of "The Italian Job" is transformed in the new film into Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who was executed in Florida in 2002 for murdering six men.īut to focus on Theron's make-up and weight is to miss Theron's portrayal of Wuornos, which is being praised as one of the best pieces of acting this year. After Monster, Theron worked on movies like Astro Boy (2009) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012).LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) - For actress Charlize Theron, turning ugly for her role in "Monster" was reasonably easy: a little make-up to freckle her clear complexion, a set of crooked teeth to yellow her pearly smile and a diet of potato chips to bulk up her slender frame. She is the first South African to win an Oscar for Best Actress. She followed this with larger roles in widely released Hollywood films, and her career skyrocketed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with box office successes like The Devil's Advocate, The Cider House Rules, Mighty Joe Young, and The Italian Job.Īfter appearing in a few notable films, Theron starred as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the film Monster (2003), for which Theron won the Best Actress Oscar at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004, as well as the SAG Award and the Golden Globe Award. After eight months in the city, she was cast in her first film part, a non-speaking role in the direct-to-video film Children of the Corn III. Unable to dance, she bought a ticket to Los Angeles. A knee injury closed this career path when she was 18. Her contract ended while she was in New York City, and she decided to remain there, attending the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer. At the age of sixteen, Theron traveled to Milan, Italy, on a one-year modeling contract, after winning a local competition.
Charlize Theron (born August 7, 1975) is an Academy Award-winning South African actress and former fashion model.
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