Charlize theron is gay

But I'm simply being honest when I express gratitude for her continued dedication in seeing that LGBTQ people are represented on screen. Since her Oscar-winning portrayal of real-life murderous prostitute Aileen Wuornos in 's "Monster," playing opposite Christina Ricci as her lover, the year-old actress has been personally responsible and invested in portraying a cadre of queer and bisexual characters to aid in normalizing non-heterosexuality in film, allowing LGBTQ characters to exist beyond their identity alone.

In the Diablo Cody-written film "Tully," Theron embodied an overworked mom named Marlo, her bisexuality casually revealed. For her Sapphic action-thriller "Atomic Blonde," Theron's agent character, Lorraine Broughton, shared a sex scene — no explanation necessary — with another female spy, played by Sofia Boutella.

Both work at Fox News and play, respectively, Kayla Pospisil, a queer, Christian associate producer new to the network, and Jess Carr, charlize theron is gay closeted lesbian producer and closeted Democrat who's been with Fox long enough to know she can't be out. While their characters are composites of real Fox News employees, Theron inhabits a precise replica of polarizing network anchor Megyn Kelly, down to her husky voice and facial resemblance.

Before our near-tears epilogue, Theron spoke candidly about when she first became aware of "really fucked up" anti-LGBTQ culture, how she chooses to stand against it with her film work, figuring out she was straight "it's a little bit of a bummer" and getting her trans daughter's pronouns right.

I think I was always aware of it. I grew up in South Africa in this kind of farm community, and our neighbor had a gay son but nobody talked about it. He just always was hanging out with his "friend" and nobody wanted to admit it; it was something that was so unspoken.

So, I think I've always had this awareness of like, "That's just really fucked up. Because my mom just one day said, "Yes, he's gay.

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I saw you went to Pride this past June, and you wore what looked like a rainbow tutu and I still want it to be a rainbow tutu. Yes, we do. I try to always get my family to go and support, and these people live in my community and I love them, and so whenever I can support or be of support, of course I would be there.

Oh, wow! I never really thought of that. Yeah, listen, I try to live my life not compartmentalizing people. I am very aware that the world does that, so it's this kind of position that you wanna take where you just want to normalize everything and not talk about it in such a walled-off, labeled sense.

Though the mission is to normalize, in many parts of the world it's not normalized. It can be easy to feel like we're living in a bubble. I'm very vocal about what I believe is the right thing to do and how we should treat each other, and at the same time I feel like the thing that maybe I could bring to the table in moving all of this stuff forward is to just make sure that the stories that I tell and the characters that I play reflect the world, which is the gay and lesbian community, in a way where we're not asking a million questions around it.

This is just how it should be. But I know what you're saying, and so the advocacy part of it is, if I'm on a stage or if somebody asks me, I will, of course, always speak out. But I think my strength as an artist is that I can just play these characters and have nobody even ask a question about it.

That is really what I want the world to be, and that maybe, hopefully, the more we see that, the more we just don't ask so many questions anymore. Based on your track record when it comes to queer characters in film, why do I have a hunch that you are responsible for giving us some queer ladies in "Bombshell"?

No, I wish I could take credit for that, but no. It was something that was written in the script when I got it and I thought it was really interesting. And it is so interesting that people kind of go, like, "Wait, Charlize theron is gay don't understand. Listen, it was great that it was in there charlize theron is gay it wasn't something that I brought up.

And we definitely wanted to make sure we handled it in a way that felt authentic. Again, to me, I always say, "Are we asking too many questions? Are we underlining things too much?