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Interview with Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron Talks About "North Country"
Charlize Theron on Research and the Mood on the Set of "North Country:" Director Niki Caro said that when the cameras stopped rolling, Theron would give the crew a hard time. “She's one to talk (laughing)."
Theron went on to explain, "The thing I found really interesting the first night I got together with the real women and they started telling us some of the stories of what had happened to them, it was almost disturbing. They would tell these horrible stories in this very humorous way. I had to really think about it and then I realized, I think it was a way they could protect themselves. If they could laugh about it, then somehow it wasn't affecting them as much. I thought that was incredibly powerful. Then without even thinking about it when we started working on this material that's what happened to us, to every single woman on this.
Sometimes we kind of had to look at each other and go, ‘This is so wrong,’ because you think you are dealing with such a serious topic and you should be furious about it all the time. The only healthy way to get through it was to laugh about some of these horrible things.
There were days where we would be in that mine and man, some of that dialogue, just constantly. Constantly you are hearing these horrible things. There was a part of me that became like those women where I had to laugh about it in order for it not to affect me as much. So, yeah our a** was for grabs during the day when the camera rolled and then when it didn't, I grabbed a**es back. It made me feel a lot better about it - and the boys were very accommodating.”
Charlize Theron on the State of Sexual Harassment in Today’s Society: “Niki and I talked about this extensively. We both feel like we have been very fortunate in our lives to not deal with those circumstances. And in many ways that's a part of this whole issue, that you can say we have come a long way because I feel very fortunate. But it's dangerous because I sit back, before this film came to me, and think, 'God, things are so great for women. I've got a great life. I've never felt like I've been treated unequal because of my sex.' Then you read this kind of story and I became fascinated by it, and I really wanted to know what was really going on out there. You start hearing about these cases today in big cities like Chicago or Dallas and you realize that you can't just sit back and think that things are great, just because your life is this fortunate.
These things are still happening out there and the biggest thing that really hit me was that this was a landmark case that changed the law. We should try and change the law, but that doesn't mean that we change how people think overnight. That takes a long time and that's why we can't stop this fight right now. We've still got a long way to go.”
Charlize Theron on Accepting This Role and Telling This Particular Story: “We tell human stories and even though I feel fortunate that I've never experienced any of that stuff, I am a woman. I understand that these things are real. And so, for me, there is compassion because I am a woman and I know that these things do happen. The only thing I know is to personalize it for myself and even though I've never experienced it, I have experienced other things in my life that have affected me in a very painful way. It's called substitution and I use that in my work.
To be with these women, and I spent so much time with them, they were with us on the entire film. We brought them [in]. They are threaded throughout the entire story. Every time you see us they are somewhere around there. To have them around me and to look at them and be able to say, 'Is this real? Is this what happened?' And to see their catharsis was just so powerful for me. I don't think that it was hard for me to understand it because I hadn't experienced it. It's not hard for me to look at those women and realize what happened to them. I see them with their kids and I see how it affected their children and how it affected their families.
This wasn't something that happened in the workplace and then they left it behind and they went home and they were peaceful. This bled into their everyday society. They went to the grocery store [and] they had to face these people. I think that is the thing that just kind of kills you. Knowing that it doesn't just affect a certain part of your life. It affects every single aspect of your life.
I read the story and felt incredibly…I felt it was something I had to do because I had been so fortunate. Not because I related and said, 'I've had this story happen to me.' But because I've been so fortunate I have to tell the stories.”
Charlize Theron on Her “North Country” Co-Star Frances McDormand: “Frances, to me, is as good as they come. I've embarrassed her many times in the past by gushing. She is the ultimate actress for me to follow. She's got balls. She is, if you want to say brave, she is brave. There is no limit when it comes to her. Then [she’s] such an incredible human being on top of it. Working with somebody like that, you go to work and realize the bar is just raised and you are playing with the big boys when you are working with this cast. Every day I realized that.
There are moments in this film, or a few of them, where what I do as an actor is I don't… My character doesn't know what Lou Gehrig’s is and so I didn't really go and read up.
I know what it is, but I didn't want to focus on that because there is something so heartbreaking about Josey not knowing anything about this disease and watching her really good friend deteriorate that way. I think the only thing I could compare it to is 20 years ago when people started dying of AIDS and we had no idea what that disease was, yet we saw people in front of our eyes just day by day deteriorating, people that we loved. I couldn't imagine how painful that must have been for her to not really know what this disease was about.
Frances did a ton of research on it. It was very important for her to do that truthfully and to not just be an indulgent actor playing somebody sick. I think she does it so beautiful and truthfully and brave, dramatic. She's so strong about it. I'm a huge fan.”
Charlize Theron on Physically Transforming for “North Country” and “Monster:” “The physical aspect really comes from understanding the emotional journey. I really believe that. I never sit down and say, 'Well, I want to have this hair and I want to do this and…' It's never that mechanical for me.
I've been very lucky to work with a make-up artist again, which is Toni G. who did 'Monster' with me, who understands the emotional aspect of it so well. Who really does the same amount of research that I do, to really understand emotionally where this person has traveled. Then go, ‘What marks did that leave on this person?’ Because that's what makes them look the way they do.
I think actors, some actors know that, the actors that I admire, I think Johnny Depp said, 'If you keep serving roast beef, people are going to get bored.' You have to pay attention to the fact that you are the vehicle. Actors are vehicles to serve the greater story and I think if you started thinking about everything in terms of you and make everything about you, it becomes very selfish. So I don't ever question anything for Charlize, but I question everything for the character. And that truth…is sometimes very ugly, but it’s the truth. Therefore I feel like it's my responsibility.
There was a lot of ugliness in Aileen [Wuornos] but I didn't just look at that, but I had to pay attention to that just as much. I think people are very complicated and that's why I love this job because I am fascinated by human nature. I am fascinated about what the outside appearance might be and what's really going on deep inside. I am fascinated by, in this case, what happens to people when they are put in horrible circumstances and they have to survive and what they will do to survive? I say that for the men, because it was really survival for them as well, just as much as it was for us. And we had to understand where they came from as well.
We couldn't just say, ‘Men bad. Women good.’ We had to understand that it was their bread and butter as well. Their livelihoods as well. If they didn't work then their families were going to suffer from it just as much. It doesn't justify the behavior, but I can understand where the behavior comes from then. Also even the ones that didn't do anything horrible, that couldn't say anything. The men who weren't bad, that stood by because they knew if they said something they would get fired.”
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