AGAINST TYPE.(The Talk of the Town)(Charlize Theron)(Biography)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 02-FEB-04

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The former dancer and model Charlize Theron, who stands five feet nine inches tall in her stocking feet, was in town recently to promote the new film "Monster," in which she plays the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was executed by lethal injection in 2002 for murdering seven men. The chance to play against type (as Wuornos, Theron wears oversized prosthetic teeth, brown contact lenses, and heavy makeup simulating freckles, sun damage, and a lifetime of booze) is what attracted Theron to the material. "I mean, I could have gone on forever--well, at least another ten years--as 'that girl,' " Theron said over lunch....

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