Charlize Theron created a successful career for herself as an A-list actress in Hollywood.
Asher biographystates, Theron had to give up her dancing career after sustaining several severe knee injuries.
With ballet off the table, Theron decided to try her hand at acting instead.
She left New York and headed for Los Angeles, but it wasn’t exactly a seamless transition.
At the time, Theron’s thick Afrikaans accent prevented her from landing speaking roles.
Instead of giving up, Theron studied TV shows to learn how to Americanize her accent.
By 1995, Theron landed her first small role inChildren of the Corn III.
Here’s a look at the award-winning actress' most dangerous roles in film.
Makeup was used to redden and weather her complexion and she wore contacts to change her eye color.
Theron had to learn to speak and act with dentures.
Theron also had to gain thirty pounds for the role.
Oh, and get inside the head of a serial killer.
Needless to say, playing Wuornos was a challenge.
Theron’s character had been suppressing her feelings the entire movie, until one scene where she breaks down.
In that moment, Theron deeply felt what her character was going through.
It was like, ‘Now I can’t hold it back again!'"
Filming murder scenes can’t exactly be easy on the psyche either.
Theron played the enigmatic assassin working for rebels in an attempt to overthrow the government.
The film focuses on Flux’s assignment to assassinate the Chairman and the mystery surrounding it.
While it sounds interesting enough, the movie bombed, earning only an eight percent score onRotten Tomatoes.
Not only that, but the dismal film’s acrobatic stunts could’ve killed the actress.
“I almost paralyzed myself,” Theron explained in an interview withI’m Filmy.
In 2013, Theron finally had surgery to correct the vertebrae she broke (viaUSA Today).
Ah,Aeon Flux the gift that just keeps on giving.
“These were just people trying to make ends meet and trying to put food on the table.
I think that was the part that moved me the most,” she said.
Theron certainly put herself at risk as mining isone of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
Theron admitted to having a lot of fun playing Stella Bridger, a professional safe-cracker.
Part of her duties on the film included some pretty terrifying driving stunts.
Although she had a lot of fun racing her coworkers, she did crash multiple times.
In an interview withBBC, Theron described the fun of driving down stairs (umm, what?)
and exclaimed, “I only crashed three times!”
Oh, that’s all?Phew.
The stunt that went awry during Mad Max
In an interview withE!
News, director George Miller admitted his biggest fear while filmingMad Max: Fury Road keeping his cast safe.
Miller said the making of the movie was basically a “military exercise.”
Theron, having already suffered a very dangerous neck injury while filmingAeon Flux, needed to take extra precaution.
“We didn’t help the neck in one shot that went slightly awry,” Miller admitted.
She’s tough."
Theron played a particularly fierce role as an undercover MI6 agent in 2017’sAtomic Blonde.
Even in an intense movie likeAtomic Blonde, Theron was up for the challenge.
To getprepared for such a rigorous role, Theron had to, likewise, train rigorously.
In fact, she trained so hard she broke her own teeth no joke.
Theron said she was at getting “hit in the face pretty hard with depression.”
