Charlize Theron

I feel like I'm from there.

I feel like I share something with the people of South Africa.

And the reason I do is because they're the most resilient, beautiful people that you will ever meet.

And they've been through all this hardship, but they have literally come out on the other side with hope.

And when I go there, that's the most incredible thing to see.

Yes, there are a lot of things that need to get fixed, but the heart of that country is so unbelievably beautiful on every level.

It's truly the most beautiful country that I've ever been to, and I've been lucky enough to travel a lot.

And it's a place filled with joy.

And so I just wanted to kind of talk a little bit about that because that is such an important part of the one side that we covered yesterday.

It's not all doom and gloom, you know?

We got into a place.

Sometimes that's the way it goes.

But that's why this is good because you kind of get to reflect, right?

And that doesn't happen usually in interviews.

So I'm grateful for that.

So I know in our first interview, we talked a lot about your personal life.

So I want to talk about some of your work.

You founded a production company in 2003, and that was long before female actors, at least, were sort of doing that, were taking that kind of ownership.

Why did you think it was important to have that kind of power behind the scenes, too?

You know...