Last week, Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” became Universal Pictures’ highest-grossing film of all time, grossing $1.68 billion and counting. She was more focused on how much money she could raise for her foundation, the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Program — which works to strengthen the health and safety of youth in Southern Africa. CTAOP hosted its 6th annual block party on the Universal backlot with a guest list that included January Jones, Nick Kroll, Patton Oswald, Skye P.
Marshall, Jeannie Mai, Heather Gay, Natalie Martinez, chef Andrew Zimmern, Thaddeus LaGrone, Aggy K. Adams, Shudu Musida, Naledi Masilo, Michelle De Leon, Max Talisman, as well as NBCUniversal Entertainment chairman Donna Langley. All of them have stood by me for my entire career.” Speaking of family, Theron is also expected to reprise her role as the villainous Cipher in “Fast Forever,” the final installment of the “Fast and Furious” franchise.
Vin Diesel declared the film’s script is “the best [he’s] read in decades,” but he hasn’t shared a copy with Theron yet. But what would a happy ending look like for someone like Cipher? I’m sure Vin will come up with a great way for her to … I almost said die, but I guess she doesn’t have to die, right?” (With a spinoff series in the works at Peacock, it’s safe to say any fate is possible for the massive ensemble cast.) Now back to the topic at hand: next year, CTAOP will turn 20 and, to date, has served over 80 organizations, reached over 4.8 million youth and granted $16.5 million to local grassroots organizations.
If anything, I think they do. There’s a big percentage of the population that understands that less than 1% of [America’s] overall budget going to foreign aid and saving millions and millions of lives is a good thing. And I really hope we can get back to those times, because people are dying.” Here, Theron grew particularly impassioned, explaining that people try to oversimplify the situation.
If you take away the humanitarian out of it — what’s important to you? Is it the safety of wanting to know that you’re safe here in America? Then you should care about other people as well.” As CTAOP works toward that 20th anniversary, Theron said her “ridiculous hope and dream is to say we don’t have to do this anymore.
But I don’t think that that’s going to be the case.” “If anything,” she explained, “I think we’re leaning into a year where we really have to spend real money toward organizations that really, really work on the ground with gender-based violence. The femicide happening in South Africa right now is beyond brutal.” The horrors for women and girls are prevalent everywhere, Theron said, but her native South Africa is particularly devastated by it. And it’s like nobody cares.
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