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How Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington defied stereotypes

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Yong Chavez  | TFC News Hollywood

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Charlize Theron. Photo credit: Netflix " The="" School="" for="" Good="" and="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tfc/10/26/charlize-theron.jpg"/><figcaption>Charlize Theron <em>Netflix &quot;The School for Good and Evil&quot;</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>&#x27;The School for Good and Evil&#x27; star Charlize Theron grew up in South Africa and was a dancer and model before becoming an actress.</p><p>She shared how she dealt with feeling like being put in a box as a young woman.</p><p>&quot;My mother prepared me quite well in just kind of understanding that that was inevitable. And so my whole life I kind of felt like I had to prove myself and that&#x27;s not necessarily a bad thing,&quot; Theron said.</p><p>&quot;I was a foreigner, I had an accent. I still mess up English, I use the wrong grammar. I sometimes still feel like that&#x27;s the box that I gotta have to over-prove myself a little bit with. And then obviously wanting to be an actor. When I wanted to be an actor, and those days the last thing that you wanted behind you was being a model-slash-actor. Nowadays it&#x27;s not that big of a deal, but when I was kind of coming around, it was like the kiss of death. And you walk in a room and people knew that about you, automatically they just thought you couldn&#x27;t act.&quot;</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Kerry Washington. Photo credit: Netflix " The="" School="" for="" Good="" and="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tfc/10/26/kerry-washington.jpg"/><figcaption>Kerry Washington <em>Netflix &quot;The School for Good and Evil&quot;</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Theron&#x27;s co-star Kerry Washington also spoke of her experience in defying people&#x27;s expectations.</p><p>&quot;I think any of us as women are constantly fighting the battle of being put in a box and having people decide what&#x27;s appropriate or inappropriate for us. But also as a woman of color, and I was also from the Bronx growing up, there were all kinds of assumptions about who I was and what I had to offer,&quot; she said.</p><p>&quot;So I think there was a similar drive to kind of go beyond people&#x27;s limited expectations. If I could have believed in the freedom to be who I want to be and do things my own way without feeling like it was for other people or without feeling like I needed other people&#x27;s approval to be worthy, that would have been great. But you get there when you get there.&quot;</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Photo credit: Netflix " The="" School="" for="" Good="" and="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tfc/10/26/20221026_school-for-good-and-evil-scene.jpg"/><figcaption>(L to R) Kerry Washington as Clarissa Dovey and Charlize Theron as Lady Lesso <em>Netflix &quot;The School for Good and Evil&quot;</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>In a world where young women are sorted as a princess or a witch, &#x27;The School for Good and Evil&#x27; lead stars Sophia Anne Caruso and Sofia Wylie play two best friends who try to figure out where they belong and, in the process, discarding the labels placed on them.</p><p>In the fairy-tale place that they end up in, they meet the leaders played by Theron and Washington.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Poster. Photo credit: Netflix " The="" School="" for="" Good="" and="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tfc/10/26/school-for-good-and-evil-poster.jpg"/><figcaption><em>Netflix &quot;The School for Good and Evil&quot;</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Directed by Paul Feig, the film&#x27;s cast also includes Michelle Yeoh and Laurence Fishburne.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hWWH_x-oj2o?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

Two of Hollywood's most successful actresses star in the new Netflix film 'The School for Good and Evil' which is based on the international best-selling fantasy series by Soman Chainani.

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How Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington defied stereotypes

Yong Chavez | TFC News Hollywood

Published Oct 26, 2022 05:48 PM PHT

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