If Charlize Theron is today an essential Hollywood star, it is undoubtedly thanks to meeting an agent… in a bank! A look back at a surprising helping hand from destiny.
Charlize Theron is one of the biggest stars in Hollywood today. Oscar winner for her role in Monster, the South African actress has starred in numerous feature films since the mid-90s, from The Yards to Mad Max: Fury Road via Atomic Blonde and the Fast and Furious saga.
But did you know that the woman who recently revealed that she had difficulty filming action films owed her successful Hollywood career to meeting an agent, completely by chance, in a Los Angeles bank? It was in 1994, when the young woman was in serious financial difficulties.
At the age of 18, Charlize Theron moved to Los Angeles to try to start a career as an actress, a period during which she struggled a lot. Suffice it to say that she badly needs the money she has just obtained thanks to a modeling experience in New York. But a big problem arises when she goes to the bank counter…
“I wanted to cash this check, but the bank wouldn’t because it came from another state”told Charlize Theron at the microphone of Oprah Winfrey in 2005. “I needed this money so much. I started begging the bank employee.“It was then that destiny knocked at his door…
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“I was begging and pleading with the employee when a man intervened and tried to help me.”continues the actress. “I got through it by filling out tons of paperwork and opening an account. But what I didn’t know was that at the bank, I was sort of auditioning for the guy. who would eventually become my manager.”
Because the man in question who helped her was none other than agent John Crosby, who at the time represented John Hurt and Rene Russo. And he was obviously seduced in a few minutes by Charlize Theron.
“He told me, ‘If you’re interested, I’m your agent.’she reveals. “If I hadn’t met him, I don’t know what I would have become. I didn’t know how to have a manager. Frankly, if I hadn’t been at the bank that day, I don’t think that I would have had this career.”
After this providential meeting, Charlize Theron began this famous career with a small role in the horror film The Corn Demons 3. Then came That Thing You Do! and especially The Devil’s Partner, where she opposite Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves. The start of an irresistible ascent…
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