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When it's done right, as it is in "Young Adult," there is something absolutely mesmerizing about watching a train wreck unfold on screen. When the wreck in question is a narcissistic beauty played to scheming, sour, downward-spiraling perfection by Charlize Theron, cringing is definitely called for, but so is laughter.
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Theron's Mavis Gary is trouble — an author of teen fiction and a narcissistic former prom queen with a non-existent moral compass. She returns to her small Minnesota town to win back her high school boyfriend Buddy, who's now married with a newborn daughter. As Mavis, Theron is a one-woman cyclone of destruction who spends her days either chasing Buddy or getting drunk with a disabled former classmate (Patton Oswalt), whom she alternately mocks or dismisses.
Yet for Theron, Mavis Gary is a ravishing work of art. "I'd be blind to not see the potential in the character. These are the kinds of roles women wait for," says Theron. "Yeah, it scared me. There's so much about her — when you hold up the mirror, you see almost too much you don't want to acknowledge. But that coincides with what makes my job exciting." The performance has earned Theron, whose career has been more sluggish than spectacular the past few years, first-rate reviews and put her back on Oscar watch-lists. Director Jason Reitman says he can't imagine anyone else inhabiting his unapologetically prickly heroine. "I just knew how tricky this character would be. In the screenplay, Mavis is nuanced and troubled. All that could have been done away with if the actress decided to portray Mavis as some sort of caricature. Charlize has a way of showing how broken she was," says Reitman. "She's fearless in her approach. Most actors would find a way to tell the audience that they're nothing like the character. It takes (courage) to stare this character this straight down." [...] As for her relationship with Twilight's Kristen Stewart, who plays Snow White to Theron's Evil Queen in next year's lavish production of Snow White and the Huntsman? "We totally get it on. She doesn't know it yet, but I've been working on some rewrites," cracks Theron. Read the rest at: USA Today Charlize Theron in Christian Dior at The Young Adult New York Premiere - November 8th 201112/9/2011 Charlize Theron attended the World Premiere for ‘Young Adult’ in New York City last night looking outstanding in red.
Her Dior red leather dress was the perfect way to make a huge impact on the red carpet on a cold night in the Big Apple. Review: 'Young Adult' 'Two Jews On Film' Applaud Charlize Theron's Tour De Force Performance12/8/2011 Mavis Gary, (Charlize Theron) 37, has a very pretty face and verypretty hair...except for the bald spot on the back of her head...Seems Mavis has a nasty little habit of pulling out her hair, whenever the mood strikes her.
She also has a high-rise apartment overlooking the Minneapolis skyline and an adorable Pomeranian (are there any other kind) named Dolce. Mavis is a writer of a once popular series of Young Adult, aka teenage books featuring, a girl named Kendra. The series is coming to an end...that is if Mavis can ever finish the last and final book. Well, you can't really blame the lady for being distracted. Read more here: Star Pulse Charlize Theron’s latest monster, Mavis Gary, is not a murderer. Her admirable qualities pretty much end there.
A once and forever high-school mean girl, Mavis is the singular creation of screenwriter Diablo Cody and her “Juno” director Jason Reitman. “Young Adult” chronicles Mavis’s efforts to recapture her prom-queen glory days by reconnecting with a former beau. It features a crazy good performance by Theron, who won an Oscar for playing a serial killer in 2003’s “Monster.” Read more here: Business Week 1. It’s a big movie week, with several expected hits opening, including “New Year's Eve,” a PG-13 film directed by Garry Marshall and starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Biel and Ashton Kutcher, among others; “Young Adult,” R, directed by Jason Reitman and starring Charlize Theron; and “The Sitter,” and R comedy starring Jonah Hill.
See the rest here: Pontiac Daily Leader “Hey, you’re listening to Flappy and the Bean, we’re here with Charrr-lize Theron! She’s going to recite all of your favorite Aeon Flux lines this morning….So that movie Monster,how come there were no werewolves in it?” It takes roughly 20 seconds, three fake morning-show DJ jokes and one old-timey car horn impersonation for Patton Oswalt to reduce his statuesque Young Adult costar into a crumpled, hysterical heap in her chair. In Jason Reitman’s new movie, Theron’s character Mavis—a divorced, depressed tween-fiction writer who returns home to impulsively destroy an old flame’s marriage—bonds with Oswalt’s Matt, an equally damaged fortysomething male, over their mutual misanthropy. Sitting in this hotel room, however, it’s the duo’s ability to crack each other up via rat-a-tat riffs on rom-coms, childhood costumes and proposed titles for this article—Oswalt’s “The Gazelle and the Gnome” wins by a long shot—that forms the backbone of their real-life affection friendship. (A few days after this interview, the stand-up comic presented a special award to the actress at the Gothams Awards and both, by all accounts, brought the house down.) Through sheer force of will, TONY somehow slipped in a few questions about the movie in between the patter.
Read more and see the images here: Timeout New York Charlize Theron isn't afraid of being unlikable. She is, after all, the actress who played a serial killer to masterful, Oscar-winning effect in "Monster."
Still, even she wasn't initially sure what to make of Mavis Gary, the monstrously self-absorbed teen-lit author who seems incapable of growing up, in "Young Adult." Which is precisely why she realized she had to take the role. "As an actor, you want to be scared," says Theron. "You want something that makes you doubt if you can pull it off. Besides, I'm a bit ADD, so I think I'd hang myself in my trailer if it wasn't something that kept me on my toes." Read more here: Variety |