Here are some excerpts from the interview:


On getting an Oscar for The Monster:
“It was life-changing—it opened a lot of doors. But it made people have a lot of opinions about what should happen next. You realize quickly that you can never please everybody.”

On taking a break from acting to work on relationship with Stuart Townsend:
“It was sinking, and I had to give it a fight. I really wanted to try and make it work. That was the priority. I wouldn’t do it any different way.”

On being single for the first time in 10 years:
“I’ve never been single. This is the first time in my life. From the time I was nineteen, I’ve been in relationships, literally gone from one to the other within a month.
 It’s been good for me. I’m a creature who’s really found her comfort zone in relationships.”


On returning to acting on Young Adult:
“I realized how much I love what I do. I really, really missed it. Like around week three, I had this horrible, sappy moment where I got a little overwhelmed. It was just a really great f-cking experience. I’d gotten out of a relationship, and I was in this really floaty place. My feet weren’t touching the ground. I just kind of turned to [Reitman] and was like, ‘I feel like me again.’ ”


On wearing fake breast “cutlets” on a date:
“I was on this date and started making out, and it was moving a little further, so I realized I had to get the cutlets out,” Theron recalls. “But my bag was small, and I couldn’t fit them in the thing. I may have hid them in his trash with lots of toilet paper.”

On her “Snow White” co-star Kristen Stewart:
“Kristen is just living this to the max and still has a sense of humor about it. There’s this really lovely quality about her that just doesn’t give a f-ck. A lot of people say they don’t, but then they go home and cry and pop a Xanax. Kristen actually doesn’t give a f-ck. That’s what’s so refreshing about her.”