Charlize Theron is recalling an incident she had with a “scumbag” director early on in her career.
The Old Guard 2 star made an appearance on Call Her Daddy where she explained why she won’t reveal the name of the director.
Theron first opened up about the incident in 2019 when she appeared on The Howard Stern Show. She said she went to a director’s house for an audition and he allegedly greeted her in his pajamas and “put his hands on my knees.” The Oscar-winning actress said she got up and left after that moment.
“I didn’t know what the audition process looked like,” Theron said. “I didn’t know how you went about being an actor… [my agency] said there was a casting for this movie and you’ll have to go on a Saturday night. It was this director’s house. The little voice inside me definitely said, ‘This isn’t right.’ But then, the other voice in me says, ‘Well, I don’t know. Maybe it is right.’”
Theron said that she hasn’t outed the director because “I don’t want the story to be about him,” adding, “It’s not because I’m protecting him or anything.”
“He got nervous for a little bit,” she said. “He heard me tell the story and he knew it was about him, and he wrote me a pretend letter trying to explain his behavior and how I must have misunderstood it, which is classic, isn’t it? It’s so classic.”
Theron continued, “I won’t even fucking say your name because you know you’re the scumbag. You know it’s you. If anybody ever asked me about him, I would be completely honest — and he knows that. I kind of like that he’s got to be on a hot seat. He doesn’t know when it’s going to come. I kind of like that a little more.”
In the end, Theron said, “I will not let a motherfucker fuck with me any day of the week, but when somebody catches you off guard like that… I was never going to get a part that night. I knew it as soon as I left. I wasn’t there because I had some value that I was going to bring to his movie. I was only valued for one thing.”
Watch Theron’s full interview on Call Her Daddy in the video below.
