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What Charlize Theron Says She Won't Be Doing Anytime Soon

We caught up with the oscar winner at last night's premiere of Mad Max: Fury Road

By Marc Malkin May 08, 2015 2:55 PMTags
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Dont' expect to hear Charlize Theron screaming "action" and "cut" on any movies sets, at least not in the near future.

The Oscar winner insists she has no desire to direct.

"I have no interest in doing that," she told me last night at the premiere of her incredibly awesome new action flick, Mad Max: Fury Road (in theaters on May 15). "That bug has not bitten me yet."

But it's not like she only wants to be in front of the camera.

"I love producing. I love developing," Theron said. "But I like having a director around so I have somebody to blame. If I'm the boss than I'd have to blame myself."

She's definitely the boss in Mad Max. Theron plays Furiosa, a one-armed bad ass who finds herself teaming up with Max (Tom Hardy) to rescue five women enslaved by the evil Immortan Joe (Hugh Keasys-Byrne).

Theron tried not to think about living up to Mel Gibson's iconic Mad Max franchise.

"I definitely thought about that, but I didn't want to stress myself out too much by thinking about how I'm going to mess something great up," she said. (FYI: Gibson actually was a surprise guest at last night's premiere!)

Besides, this is Mad Max for a new generation. The hero in this version is definitely Furiosa. In fact, Vagina Monologues writer Eve Ensler recently told Time magazine that she considers the movie a "feminist action film." Director George Miller invited Ensler to the set to talk to the cast about violence against women.

Theron, however, refuses to crown Furiosa some sort of superhero. "She's very real to me," she said. "I think that is what I was so attracted to, just this idea of creating a woman who through all of her flaws actually finds her greatness. It felt very authentic to me. All the women in the film felt very authentic to me."

Rounding out the cast are Nicholas Hoult, Rosie Huntington-Wiley, Riley Keough, Zoe Kravitz, Abbey Lee and Courtney Eaton.

A party after the screening at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood included a Mad Max rock band, a faux desert landscape, bar centerpieces made of scrap metal and creepy looking "war boys" on top of poles that swayed back and forth over the crowd.

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