Charlize Theron says ‘Monster’ investors wanted a ‘hot lesbian movie’

What could possibly be sexier than a homicidal lady killing truck drivers?

Charlize Theron’s career-making position in “Monster” started as one thing very completely different, she revealed in a brand new interview.

The 47-year-old actress starred as real-life assassin Aileen Wuornos within the 2003 serial-killer drama, alongside Christina Ricci as her lover, Selby Wall.

Theron — who went on to win an Oscar for her half — alleged in a brand new interview with Harper’s Bazaar that traders stored pushing for a NSFW LGBTQ story, as a substitute of a plot a few killer on the run.

She advised the publication how backers demanded “a sizzling lesbian film with me and Christina Ricci” — nonetheless, that's not what the Patty Jenkins-directed “Monster” turned out to be.

“There’s a pure combat in me to need to create environments that really feel just like the issues that I want I had 30 years in the past once I began,” Theron stated. 

The “Outdated Guard” actress additionally mentioned her struggles with costumes throughout film shoots.

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Charlize Theron Cover Harper's BAZAAR October 2022

"Having completely no management over what you are carrying is an enormous one that basically f - - king irritated me for years," Theron advised Harper's Bazaar.
Charlize Theron Cover Harper's BAZAAR October 2022

Charlize Theron is on the quilt of Harper's Bazaar's October 2022 concern.

“Having completely no management over what you’re carrying is an enormous one that basically f – – king irritated me for years. Having some man make you could have a becoming virtually in entrance of them — stuff like that, it’s actually belittling,” Theron famous.

She then described an incident on set involving a director who stored wanting her to alter her garments.

“After I began, there was no dialog round it. It was like, ‘That is what you’re carrying,’ ” she defined. “And I bear in mind one film particularly, this male director who simply stored bringing me in, becoming after becoming after becoming.”

“And it was simply so apparent that it was to do with my sexuality and the way f – – kable they may make me within the film. And once I began out, that was simply form of the norm,” the “Destiny of the Livid” star stated.

Theron has been a staple in Hollywood motion pictures for 25 years, nonetheless, she nonetheless doesn’t really feel that she’s achieved a “Kim Kardashian degree” of notoriety.

Christina Ricci, Charlize Theron in "Monster"
Christina Ricci (left) and Charlize Theron in 2003’s “Monster.”
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Elsewhere within the profile, the mom of two revealed how her profession has developed.

“Working extra isn’t, I believe, going to alter my degree of fame,” she dished. “It simply has all the time been a mediocre trip. I’ve by no means been a type of people who’s at a Kim Kardashian degree. However I really feel prefer it’s simply all the time been this factor.”

Theron additionally received candid about how a significant a part of her 20s and 30s within the leisure enterprise — and the way in which she was raised — helped her discover her voice.

“[In my young adult years], it was a time the place you needed to be a loud bitch to only discover some house within the room,” she went on. “I don’t essentially actually like being that particular person, however there was undoubtedly a time in my life the place that was the one means I knew the best way to perform.”

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