Charlize plays mom to mixed kid
JC
Variety reports on a new role for Charlize Theron. The Ice at the Bottom of the World will be a drama that Theron will both star in and produce. Production starts later this year. Sounds like it will be quite the drama!
It’s set in the Chesapeake Bay, where a Navy captain reluctantly retires for health reasons. After years of neglecting his family while at sea, the grizzled veteran throws his dysfunctional family into chaos. Theron will play one of his daughters, who returns home a heroin addict and the single mother of a mixed-race child.
RW wrote:
Oh great! Another movie continuing the tradition of connecting interracial relationships and drug addiction. Traffic is another example.
Posted 17 Jan 2006 at 5:50 am ¶
Lyonside wrote:
Hunh. Wouldn’t it be a change (haven’t seen Traffic, BTW, so no idea) if it was the ex-boyfriend who tried to get her OFF drugs? OR if she got on drugs AFTER the kid?
But they’re likely going to go the easy route and have the prodigal “fallen” daughter be slowly welcomed back into the fold. Yawn.
Posted 17 Jan 2006 at 9:56 am ¶
Against Type wrote:
Well, she sure loves these gritty White-trash roles…
Funny thing is, why don’t these producers just cast a fugly White trash actress to begin with - instead of using a “beauty queen” and then dogging her down with makeup and prosthetics? Wouldn’t that save them some money and add some authenticity?
Or do they just HAVE to use beautiful women…even in “ugly” roles?
Oh wait, she cast herself. Nevermind.
Posted 18 Jan 2006 at 5:16 pm ¶
Mo wrote:
I think it;s really important to always acknowledge mied as well as minorities in films.
Posted 14 Feb 2006 at 8:54 pm ¶