Charlize Theron

Hi.

Hi.

And I know from other interviews that you've given that you've really not wanted your story to ever be distilled to its most simplistic version.

And I really don't want to do that here.

So I'm wondering, when you think about your career, what connections have you made between your life and the choices that you've made in your career writ large?

First of all, thank you for saying that.

I think it's like...

I do worry sometimes that I love having conversation.

And then, you know, I go home and I'm like, oh, we share too much.

I didn't have to go into that detail.

Why did I say that?

The stakes are really high for someone like you.

I get it.

I appreciate you saying that.

I feel like...

When we were talking, I was thinking about this yesterday, when we were talking, and by the way, your conversation is so natural, so I want to thank you for that too.

And it made me think about things that I haven't thought about in a while.

But I had a thought that I don't feel like we talked about, and that is that

You know, the opposite is so true of my life and of South Africa, the country that I grew up in.

And I think we covered the hardship, but I really truly feel blessed that I came from there, that I was born there, that I have that soil in my bones.