Charlize Theron

You're not smiling.

You're not friendly.

I mean, it was evident that they really were not very happy with the movie that we were making.

I mean, some of your most well-known roles are about transforming, right, into real people.

Monster, it won you an Oscar.

And then you also played Megyn Kelly in the movie Bombshell, and you were nominated for that role, too.

What is the difference between creating a character versus playing someone who already exists in the world?

That's such a good question, because I don't know if I have the answer yet.

I feel...

I don't know how to play Eileen without looking like Eileen.

I don't think I'm the actor that you should hire for that.

I also don't think I'm the actor you should put in bombshell to play Megyn Kelly because if I looked like this, like me,

and maybe attempted like her cadence, I just, I don't know what that is.

Like I would look at the monitor and just kind of feel like it's missing, like something's wrong, right?

I don't know how to do it.

So I think it's kind of like a necessity for me.

Now, when I play non-fictional characters, I don't have to kind of obey by that, right?

But there are moments where you read something and you kind of feel like there's a physicality that you think is maybe necessary.

You talk to your director.

You start thinking about things that can help you not be you, right?