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Daily Mail
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Single Charlize Theron reveals what men lie about on celebrity dating app Raya
Charlize Theron isn't having any luck on the dating apps, specifically, celebrity dating app Raya. And she blames the men on the apps for it as being a beautiful, successful, wealthy celebrity isn't enough to get past the guys with photos from Burning Man. The Old Guard actress, 49, appeared on the Thursday, June 26, episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen and revealed that she is on Raya. 'Every guy has a Burning Man picture and they're a CEO, like of nothing, or like a fitness instructor. 'And then you meet with them and they're not, and they just say it up front! I'm like, "Well, why did you put that on your thing?"' Theron said. 'No, I don't like it.' 'I don't do anything with it,' Theron told Cohen, who said he's also a subscriber. 'Yes, I don't do anything with it.' She continued, 'A friend put me on it, I went on two dates, and then I just kind of stopped.' And Charlize has dated her fair share of celebs including actors Craig Bierko, Stuart Townsend and Sean Penn, as well as Train frontman Stephan Jenkins and model Gabriel Aubry. She was also reportedly dating Alex Dimitrijevic in 2023. Last week, Charlize revealed her children have 'zero respect' for her award-winning acting career. The actress appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live looking stunning in a glamorous black blazer dress and a sheer floor-length skirt as she discussed her children's thoughts on her career. Charlize's motherhood journey began when she adopted daughters Jackson, 11, and August, seven. But it seems her children are not phased by the fact she's a huge movie star or features on billboards, as she told Jimmy, 'my children have zero respect for me' when asked if they are impressed by her career. Laughing towards the audience, she said: 'My children have zero respect for me. I don't know how, it's just unbelievable. 'And then you meet with them and they're not, and they just say it up front! I'm like, "Well, why did you put that on your thing?"' Theron said. Seen here June 24, 2025 'I feel like I'm pretty humble, but every once in a while I'm like there's a f*****g Oscar right there.' The audience and Jimmy erupted into laughter as she added: 'No, they're so not impressed with me.' Charlize became the first South African to win an acting Oscar when she picked up the Best Actress gong for 2003 drama Monster. Recalling picking up her daughter the day before, she explained: 'I was picking up my youngest from dance yesterday and we drove past that new Mission Impossible poster, where Tom Cruise is hanging onto some like yellow plane. 'And he just looks really cool, and my kids were with me when I shot Old Guard 2, and I worked on this incredibly intricate sequence where we brought in this amazing helicopter pilot, Fred North, and we were gonna choreograph this incredible scene. 'Like me fighting helicopters and jumping on this real helicopter and hanging off and shooting like 99 per cent of it on a real helicopter, as it's like trying to shake me off like a ragdoll, and we took two weeks to shoot this sequence. 'And I was like, "Wow, I just did that" That's really amazing. And my child yesterday, just looked at this poster of Tom Cruise and went "That's weird, he looks so much cooler than you did when you were hanging off that helicopter" She laughed, adding: 'I was just like, "but I hung off the helicopter, like just some credit."' Theron reprised her role as 6,732-year-old warrior Andromache 'Andy' of Scythia in the Netflix superhero sequel. The Studio guest star also executive produced Victoria Mahoney's small-screen adaptation of Greg Rucka's 2017 graphic novel, which wrapped production way back in 2022. Old Guard 2 is set to launch globally on the streaming service Netflix on July 2, 2025.
Business Insider
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
Victoria Mahoney was the first female 'Star Wars' director. Now, she's directing one of the most anticipated movies of the summer.
Victoria Mahoney can't contain herself. She's finally going to talk about "The Old Guard 2." It's not just the long-awaited sequel to Netflix's hit 2020 action movie starring Charlize Theron as the leader of immortal mercenaries out to better the world, but it also marks Mahoney's first feature film directing effort since her debut, the gritty 2011 indie starring Zoë Kravitz, "Yelling to the Sky." What has she been doing this whole time? The real question is: What hasn't she done? Everything about Mahoney is big—big energy, big smile. On this day, while chatting over Zoom with Business Insider, she's sporting big pieces of jewelry along with big, stylish glasses. Essentially, Mahoney doesn't do anything small—well, anymore. There was a time when that's all she could get. Through the 1990s, she was an actor and only had blink-and-you'd-miss-them roles on TV ("Seinfeld") and movies ("Legally Blonde") to show for it. By the 2010s, she pivoted to directing and was able to scrounge enough money to pull off an 18-day shoot for the low-budget semi-autobiographical drama "Yelling to the Sky." "We would knock on the neighbors' doors to use the bathroom because we had no money for trailers," Mahoney recalled. "They would make us lemonade, and they were so sweet. What happened at that time was quite special. I loved every second." Sadly, the movie didn't get much attention after its festival run. Seeing the filmmaking market shift to directors helming indies right into big-budget movies, she set out to do the same. But no one was knocking down her door offering a Marvel movie or revamping an aging IP. So Mahoney got directing gigs on TV. Since 2016, she's directed episodes of "Queen Sugar," "Grey's Anatomy," "Claws," "Power," "You," and the pilot episode of "Suits LA." Then in 2018, she was hired as the second unit director on J.J. Abrams' "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker," making her the first woman ever to have a director credit on a " Star Wars" movie. Many in her situation would assume that being involved in one of Hollywood's biggest franchises would lead to the gates of Hollywood opening and offers coming in by the handful. But Mahoney knew better. "Some people may have the luxury of walking the Earth with that thought process, I have never been afforded that," she said. "I have a very practical and tactical approach to work," she continued. "I hunt jobs, I pursue, I advocate for myself, I'm strategic, I'm shrewd." Mahoney's take on 'The Old Guard' Mahoney kept grinding, and after a few false starts on directing big movies, she finally got the opportunity she'd patiently waited for. In 2021, Skydance CCO Dana Goldberg reached out about directing the sequel to "The Old Guard." "I was a fan of the first one, so when they called it wasn't like this is smart business, I actually really cared about the movie and the characters," Mahoney said of the franchise. "The Old Guard 2" picks up right where we left off. Andy (Theron) and her team of immortals have a fuller understanding of their importance in the world and use a former CIA operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) as their guide to taking out those doing harm. Still, Andy gets a surprise when she learns that her old friend from centuries ago, Quynh (Ngô Thanh Vân), who has been trapped under the sea, has been brought back to the surface by Discord (Uma Thurman), and the two set out with some evil intentions. Mahoney said taking over from the first movie's director, Gina Prince-Bythewood (who stepped aside to make "The Woman King"), wasn't daunting because of her work on 2019's "Rise of Skywalker." "'Star Wars' was very much my school to this ZIP code," she said. "There are very specific lessons you get on 'Star Wars' that you can't get anywhere else. One of the things that I grabbed onto and received right away was the notion that we must respect the DNA, we must respect fans, we must respect new terrain and new thought." "I love a challenge, so I enjoyed the idea of preserving all the factors that made the first 'Old Guard' unique and wonderful, and what enticed me and what I understood enticed audiences," she continued. "So my loyalty to protect that is something that I went to work with every day." However, Mahoney is also proud of her own original touches, like the sequence she devised to capture Andy and Quynh's first meeting in centuries. Filmed at Italy's famed Cinecittà Studios, the scene shows Andy walking through the narrow streets of Rome to meet Quynh at a piazza. During her walk, her surroundings suddenly change, backtracking from the 19th Century to the Roman Empire. What was originally planned as a series of flashbacks to symbolize how long it's been since Andy last saw Quynh, Mahoney restructured it into one of the more eye-catching sequences of the movie with its use of changing scenery and different color lens filters. "Wherever I am in the world, when I walk down certain streets, I have a sense of memory," Mahoney said. "I don't think about it, it's inside of me. I felt Andy is a person who has an experience that none of us have, in that she can walk through a street and have a feeling from all these different times." What's next for Mahoney Though Mahoney has completed the biggest project of her career, she's not content and doesn't assume that another is right around the corner. As she's done her whole career, she's back on the grind, figuring out how to maneuver next. "I'm aware this kind of job gets me three moves on the chessboard," she said. "I'm aware unilateral moves are no good for me." She takes a breath, perhaps for an instant, absorbing where she's been and where she hopes to go. "Within this stretch, all the people that say, 'Oh, this is going to change things forever,' I'm like, 'We'll see.' I'm a realist."
Gizmodo
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Charlize Theron's 6 Best Genre Roles
Charlize Theron can do any genre—she has an Oscar for playing a serial killer, and she gave a standout comedic performance on Arrested Development. She's also a gifted action star, as seen in her appearances in Atomic Blonde and the Fast & Furious movies, a series which skirts the edge of sci-fi. But you don't need to qualify anything when it comes to Theron's fondness for sci-fi and fantasy. With The Old Guard 2 coming to Netflix in July, and Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey due next summer, she's still going strong—but here are Theron's most memorable sci-fi and fantasy roles so far, plus a few notable cameos too. The Devil's Advocate (1997) and The Astronaut's Wife (1999) Theron broke out in the late 1990s and was almost instantly playing leading roles—including a pair of wives forced to deal with supernaturally compromised spouses. In The Devil's Advocate (1997) she gets gaslit when she catches on that her attorney husband's new boss is, well, the ultimate bad guy; in The Astronaut's Wife (1999), she must deal with the similarly alarming revelation that her husband has returned from a space voyage with an alien lurking inside him. Both of those movies are centered around the male characters—Al Pacino's campy Satan in The Devil's Advocate is particularly legendary—but Theron still makes an impression while providing a sympathetic entry point for the audience. The Old Guard (2020) A few years after the letdown of 2005's Æon Flux, Theron made another go at superpowers in 2008's Hancock, playing a woman who's been secretly hiding her abilities until her long-lost partner, played by Will Smith, suddenly starts wrecking Los Angeles. It's entertaining but Theron is definitely the second banana. That's not the case in The Old Guard, whose ensemble cast is very much led by Theron as an ancient warrior tasked with regularly saving the world while grappling with the sudden loss of her immortality. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Obviously. If this list was ranked, Theron's fierce portrayal of Imperator Furiosa would be number one. It was nice to get a prequel filling in the character's backstory, played in a younger incarnation by Anya Taylor-Joy, but truthfully we didn't need it. Fury Road stands alone, and Theron is the main reason why. The Orville (2017) We love the Alien movies, even the occasionally impenetrable Prometheus (2012). But if we want to watch Theron in space, we're going straight to the season-one Orville episode 'Pria,' in which Theron guest-stars as a captain rescued from her floundering vessel. She's so distractingly gorgeous it takes everyone awhile to realize she's secretly got some very sinister designs on the titular ship. Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) Casting Theron as the mystical evil queen in a rough-and-tumble retelling of the Snow White story is a brilliant idea; bringing her back for a sequel that leaves out Snow White (2015's The Huntsman: Winter's War) is still a good idea, even if the second movie wasn't as good. In 2022, she tapped back into that 'evil fantasy queen' vibe, with a little more arch humor, to play the Dean of the School for Evil in Netflix's The School for Good and Evil. Bonus cameos In 2009, Theron had a brief but searing role in The Road, playing a woman who chooses to end it all rather than face life in the post-apocalypse (you can't really blame her after you spend some time in that film's particular post-apocalypse). In 2022, she had shocking little moment in The Boys season three premiere, playing 'herself' portraying 'Nazi bitch' Stormfront in the show's in-universe blockbuster, Dawn of the Seven. But we must give it up for Theron's 'did that really happen?' appearance at the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, also released in 2022. In the mid-credits scene, she appears as purple-clad sorceress Clea, a character only comic-book readers would immediately recognize, and beckons Doctor Strange into the Dark Dimension, telling him he needs to fix the 'incursion' he caused. Will Clea ever return, or is this a dangling thread that will remain tucked away in Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Even the Sorcerer Supreme probably couldn't tell you at this point.
Buzz Feed
16-06-2025
- Politics
- Buzz Feed
Trump's Military Parade: Bad Marching Explained
This weekend, there was a military parade in DC to mark Flag Day and the 250th anniversary of the US Army — and definitely, totally not for President Donald Trump's birthday. If you've seen any clips going viral from the event, you've likely noticed that many soldiers marching out of sync with one another, or generally appeared to have pretty low energy, certainly not what one imagines when they conjure the image of a strongman military parade. It led to some speculating that the marching (or lack thereof) may have been a form of political protest. So, I spoke to Charlotte Clymer, an activist and DC-based writer, who covered the topic in her Substack "Charlotte's Web Thoughts." She served in the US Army from 2005-2012, including three years in the 3rd US Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard). Of her time in the Old Guard, she said, "I probably did hundreds of parades and various ceremonies, to say nothing of all the funerals that we carried out in Arlington National Cemetery. Beyond the actual missions, we were doing training all the time. We're talking 1000s of hours of drilling, marching, and various preparations for those ceremonies." Charlotte, like some of the other veterans I spoke to, said that she initially hadn't planned to watch the parade. However, after being sent clips while she was at a No Kings protest, she was "surprised" and "beyond shocked" when she watched the whole thing. She said, "That is something I never thought I would see in my lifetime. The glaring nature of the poor quality of the marching really kind of shook me. And I know that might sound strange for people to hear, because for most folks, it's just a military parade. It's not that big a deal." "But you have to understand, even beyond the whole honor aspect of this and discipline, fidelity to the mission, there's also just the consequences of not performing to standard in a military operation, even if it is just a parade," she continued. "Part of what makes soldiers meet a high standard of excellence is knowing there will be consequences if we don't. And in a parade of that public significance on national television, with the whole country watching, every soldier marching in that parade would normally understand that if they fail to meet at least a basic standard, they're going to face consequences for it." Charlotte doesn't buy that some of the soldiers simply were from units that weren't used to marching. "Every soldier learns how to march during basic training, and it's not hard. It's remarkably easy," she continued, noting that the soldiers will have had a dress rehearsal a few days prior. As for why we saw what we saw, she said, "I don't think this was a protest against Trump, or anything adjacent to anti-fascism or concern with how the government is operating. I don't think it had anything to do with that. I think this is just because they were treated very poorly and they didn't care. I think the soldiers who were misstepping during the parade — there were a lot of them — were just tired, annoyed, probably to some extent angry, and they just did not give enough of a shit to march to a high standard of excellence." Part of the annoyance, Charlotte thinks, may have stemmed from many of the army members likely having to travel from out of town, staying in not-great lodgings, waking up early, and then spending hours waiting for their turn to march — "their comfort and dignity really were an afterthought." However, she also thinks it may have been because the parade itself was "completely unnecessary." "Everyone is aware that this parade was done in service of Donald Trump — even the soldiers who likely voted for him know it was done in service to his ego. And I don't know about you, but I would never want to participate in the parade so that a lone individual could feel good about themselves," she explained. "Of course, we want to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US Army. But everyone is aware that that's simply a proxy for Trump celebrating himself. He wanted to recreate what he saw in North Korea, in France, in these other countries, these massive, flashy military parades that really would center him. He wanted a tyrant celebration. Everyone was aware of that, and I think their unhappiness showed through pretty clearly." Charlotte compared the parade with the inaugural parade, where "you'll almost never see a soldier out of step." Calling this event "deeply embarrassing," she said, "There are unfriendly nations probably watching this and wondering, does this military really support its commander-in-chief?" Speaking to how the parade might reflect on potential military use in city protests, Charlotte said, "The whole point of having our military is to protect the Constitution and the people the Constitution is meant to serve. If we don't have a military that is nonpartisan, that serves lawful orders of the President by the direction of the Constitution, we're in big trouble. At the moment, it's pretty clear that there has been some degree of dissension and unhappiness in the ranks, whether or not that has to do with politics or the way the troops are being treated. This is a complex conversation, but it is clear that there is a deep unhappiness in the military at the moment." Charlotte later emailed us to add, "It was like watching a professional baseball game and the players drop easy, routine pop flies numerous times. It was that level of surreal embarrassment." You can read more about the parade here.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
U.S. Army Turns 250: Meet One of the Soldiers Carrying on Its Most Time-Honored Traditions in Conversation with YourUpdateTV
Nationwide media tour by U.S. Army conducted in conjunction with YourUpdateTV highlights the ceremonies and traditions that have endured throughout Army history, and how the next generation of Soldiers is carrying them into the future. NEW YORK, June 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This June, the U.S. Army celebrates its 250th birthday with the theme 'This We'll Defend,' which highlights the commitment of Army Soldiers and Civilians to fighting and winning the nation's wars. Older than the nation itself, the Army's deep history and traditions serve as a link between its proud past and promising future. To celebrate this historic moment, the Army is highlighting the young Soldiers who are carrying on its rich legacy and reaffirming its enduring relevance in today's world. 1st Lt. Nathan Mapes is Officer in Charge of all ceremonies and special events for the U.S. Army's oldest active-duty infantry unit, 'The Old Guard.' On June 11th, 1st Lt. Mapes conducted a nationwide media tour explaining the meaning behind some of the Army's most cherished traditions, and shared how the next generation of Soldiers are proudly leading the force into the future by honoring its past. Some of these time-enduring traditions include: Ceremonial performances of the Fife and Drum Corps and 'Pershing's Own.' The U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps has served as a ceremonial unit, representing the Army's history and traditions through music, and providing entertainment and support for various events, for over 60 years. They play traditional military music, particularly from the Revolutionary War era, and are known for their signature uniforms. The U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own" provides musical support for the leadership of the United States, to include all branches of government, and to a wide spectrum of national and international events in order to connect the Army to the American people. Guarding The Tomb of the Unknown SoldierThe Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, located at Arlington National Cemetery, is guarded 24/7, 365 days a year, by a special detail from the The Old Guard. These Soldiers, called Sentinels, are volunteers who must undergo a strict selection process and intensive training. The Sentinels' routine involves a meticulous walk and specific movements, all with symbolic meaning, including the 21-step walk, which represents the 21-gun salute. Wreath laying at Arlington National CemeteryThe most solemn ceremonies occur when the President of the United States, or the President's designee, lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to mark the national observance of Memorial Day, Veterans Day, or other special occasions. Ceremonial wreath laying also occurs during state visits of foreign dignitaries, who pay formal respects to the sacrifices of America's veterans by placing a wreath before the Tomb. The procession of the horse-drawn caisson at state funeralsThe Caisson Detachment at Fort Myer, part of The Old Guard, has been maintaining the tradition of carrying deceased troops by horse-drawn caisson wagon to their final resting place since the 19th century. Visit to learn more about the possibilities of Army service and how you can become a part of the Army's next 250 years. About YourUpdateTV:YourUpdateTV is a property of D S Simon Media. The video included and release was part of a media tour that was produced by D S Simon Media on behalf of U.S. Army. Dante MuccigrossoDirector of Media Integration & Client ReportingE: dantem@ 973.524.0104 A video accompanying this announcement is available at in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
