Charlize is much more than Tinseltown tinsel

Charlize Theron could have been typecast as a blonde decoration of the kind which litters Hollywood. But the Benoni beauty is on top of the heap in the City of Stars.

I’m in the corridor of a Beverly Hills Hotel waiting to interview SA’s own Charlize Theron. I’d chatted to her three days earlier, when I was fresh out of hospital and ordered to be on bed rest — but — for Charlize? No problem, I could recover later! While I wait, Seth Rogen approaches. He’s paired with the Benoni beauty for the television portion to promote the movie Long Shot —a

romantic comedy that will have you chuckling and will leave you with that perfect heart-warming date-night flick feeling.

It’s about a guy who’s an unlikely romantic partner to the potential next president of the US — played by our gal, Charlize.

Rogen is surprisingly taller than he appears to be on screen, and hovers on the “svelte” side. He’s in khakis and a T-shirt that’s “interesting”. There’s a little space of about two strides behind him, and then a bundle of people. This is Charlize’s pod. She’s like a skyscraper in a town of little cottages. She is on five inch “bootiesandals” that open up the arch of her foot, crossed by laces. The naked gash carries your eye up her never-ending shin, to her knee, and on to the stretch of thigh where it meets a designer mini, which she’s paired with a blue shirt. She’s chatty and relaxed — with jet black hair — and so selfevidently beautiful that you have to stare at the apparition. It’s no wonder she’s also the face of Dior’s J’adore perfume.

But if you mention her looks, she answers straight: “I know it’s a very clichéd thing to say, I get upset when pretty women demur. It’s like ‘Please, you are f**king gorgeous, stop.’ But I was never raised with that being in the forefront. In many ways, my life was set up to be a narrative of beauty, getting into the modelling industry, but I didn’t like that narrative. There was something inside me