Charlize Theron

Oh, thank you.

Do you consider yourself to be an action hero?

I don't know about the hero part.

My words.

I'm making a kind of obvious assumption considering where we've started, but I've heard you just say words like independent, self-sufficient.

You know, wanting to do things your own way.

And it, to me, there's just like a very clear through line to this version of your career.

Yeah.

Why was that something that you were attracted to?

So I had had little moments in movies where I had to do like an action scene.

You know, it was like stunt people would come in and it would be like, oh, we're going to like – there was like a big fight scene that I had in Two Days in the Valley, my first movie that I ever did.

But I made the connection pretty quickly to my dance career.

And the thing that my mom said was –

in that moment became very clear to me, the fact that I'm a natural storyteller.

And if I have to do it through my body, I'll do it through my body.

If I can do it through my mouth, I'll do it through my mouth.

And I had missed telling story through my body.

You know, you said in a recent interview, I have surgery after every movie.

You said you wanted to get to the fun stuff.

And so I just have to bring this up before we talk a little bit more about this because...