Charlize Theron

And I was going out and dance.

These were all things that I didn't grow up with.

You know, in South Africa, you don't go to a club like you don't go like during.

I mean, we had I don't think I was like some South Africans going to be like, that's not true.

But my experience was that there wasn't like concerts there.

I didn't go to concerts.

Well, there were boycotts, right?

Yes, exactly.

Sanctions kind of like stopped that.

But even prior to the sanctions, and I think even if there were, my mom would never let me go because you'd hear of like crowd bombings and things like that.

So this was the first time you were able to really be young.

Yes, yes, yes.

So in fact, the opposite of what I thought.

No, I was like dancing until the sun came up and then I would go to auditions and be great.

Like I was like, I had no sleep.

I functioned on no sleep.

I ate terribly because that's what I could afford.

But I was so happy.

I was so happy.

So this brings me actually to your new movie because you've been doing a lot of tough roles lately and you are what I consider to be our modern day action hero.