Kevin Winter/NBCUniversal/Getty Images Thankfully, Charlize Theron didn't let her nerves keep her from doing Young Adult . She may have just been nominated for a Golden Globe for her work in the Jason Reitman directed flick, but... READ: Charlize Theron: "Very Potty-Mouthed," Says Young Adult Costar "I was a little scared of it," Theron told me last night at the L.A. premiere of the film. Why? Because she plays a raging alcoholic. "There are two things I always think actors find really hardplaying drunk and driving scenes," Theron admitted. "So I was a little trepidatious about it. But Jason was really great at just kind of pulling back and saying 'When you're drunk, you try not to be drunk,' so that was my guideline. I was like, She's a pro, so she doesn't stumble that much." Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player . That's debatablebec...

Charlize Theron says she doesn't think there is a recent trend of beautiful women behaving badly on the big screen, so much as a pattern of movies showing women are as multi-dimensional as men. In "Young Adult," the new dark comedy by "Juno" director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody, Theron plays Mavis, a ghost writer for a series of young-adult books dwindling in popularity. With her personal and professional prospects looking bleak, Mavis heads home to the Minnesota suburb where she was raised to try to reclaim her high-school beau Buddy, played by Patrick Wilson. Unfortunately for her, Buddy is now happily married with a good job and adorable new baby. Initially pleased to see Mavis, Buddy grows increasingly uncomfortable as Mavis' scheme to win him back becomes more clear. Watching all the awkward action from the sidelines is geeky, goodhearted Matt, played by Patton Oswalt. Although he and Mavis were never friends as kids, Matt, too, is haunte...

CHARLIZE THERON knows a thing or two about playing predators - she won an Oscar for her role as a serial killer in "Monster." And yet her murderess (in the movie's view) was a creature born of circumstance, of trauma. In "Young Adult," she plays a woman who in her own way is even worse. Driven by bone-deep meanness, desperation, boredom, envy and alcoholism to pry a married man (Patrick Wilson) from his spouse and child and happy suburban home. Did I mention it's a comedy? It is, and Theron manages to be hilarious, a feat that has inspired new Oscar buzz for her turn in "Young Adult" as Mavis, an eroded high-school beauty who's now staring middle age and loneliness in the face. She flinches, and impulsively flees the city for her dull hometown to retrieve the high-school dreamboat (Wilson) she fancies as her lifelong soul mate. He's inconveniently married, but happily obtuse (a perfect role for the guileless Wilson), and he's also a guy...

NEW YORK Jason Reitman was under the same impression many are of Charlize Theron. He knew she was a fiercely talented actress, prone to burying her stunning beauty behind gritty, intense performances like her Academy Award-winning one as a murderous prostitute in 2003s Monster. Then she told him a dirty joke. Theron approached Reitman at last years Oscars to tell him how much she liked his then-recent film Up in the Air and that shed love to work with him. I got a tap on the shoulder, and I turn around, and its all 6-foot-6 of Charlize Theron, recalls Reitman, intentionally exaggerating Therons height by 8 inches. I was really understandably intimidated. But when Theron, already a few drinks into the night, revealed a more depraved sense of humor than her image would suggest, Reitman realized they had more in common than he expected: I was like, Oh! I like you. The meeting was both fortuitous, in that it directly led to Theron staring in Reitmans new film Young Adult, and an early hi...

Charlize Theron restarts dog collection [newKerala.com News # 127717] Home News RSS Feeds Photo Gallery Home > News > hollywood-news Los Angeles, Dec 16 : After her all eight pets died over a period of 30 months, actress Charlize Theron is bringing dogs home once again. The 36-year-old dog lover has been rescuing pooches for years, but it has been a year since all her pets died. Now she has recently adopted two dogs, reports dailystar.co.uk. "(My dogs) all kinda passed away in the last two-and-a-half years kinda back to back, but they had amazing lives; the oldest one was 16. "I went for a year without having dogs because I thought I was gonna go and make this film ('Mad Max') in Australia... but the movie kept pushing and my mom just finally said, 'What are you doing? You're such a dog lover... I hate coming over here (to your house), everything's so clean, and it's, like, quiet.' And so I just recently adopted two rescue dogs," said ...

Charlize Theron can't relate to her peers. During The New York Times ' TimesTalk panel in NYC Friday, the 36-year-old actress said she prepared for her role in Young Adult by exploring the oddities of women her age. PHOTOS: Charlize's best red carpet moments "I'm pretty amazed by Hello Kitty. I see so many women in their 30s walking around in Hello Kitty sh-t and nobody is concerned for them," Theron said. "It's the one iconic teenage symbol that seems okay for women in their 30s? The world seems to not have an issue with it." VIDEO: Who is Charlize's celebrity BFF? Realizing such women were quite similar to her character, Theron "said to the costume director, 'Get me some Hello Kitty T-shirts.' Those were my demands." All kidding aside, Theron believes "women are just as messed up" as men, which is what made her role in Young Adult so fun. VIDEO: See Charlize as the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Huntsman ...

CHARLIZE THERON knows a thing or two about playing predators - she won an Oscar for her role as a serial killer in "Monster." And yet her murderess (in the movie's view) was a creature born of circumstance, of trauma. In "Young Adult," she plays a woman who in her own way is even worse. Driven by bone-deep meanness, desperation, boredom, envy and alcoholism to pry a married man (Patrick Wilson) from his spouse and child and happy suburban home. Did I mention it's a comedy? It is, and Theron manages to be hilarious, a feat that has inspired new Oscar buzz for her turn in "Young Adult" as Mavis, an eroded high-school beauty who's now staring middle age and loneliness in the face. She flinches, and impulsively flees the city for her dull hometown to retrieve the high-school dreamboat (Wilson) she fancies as her lifelong soul mate. He's inconveniently married, but happily obtuse (a perfect role for the guileless Wilson), and he's also a guy...