8 Embarrassing First Jobs Famous Filmmakers Endured

By Padraig Cotter /

5. Charlize Theron Was An Extra Who Met A Bad End In Children Of The Corn III

Charlize Theron is celebrating a great year with Mad Max: Fury Road, which might make her reflect on her early days in the business. Furiosa is certainly a world away from her debut in Children Of The Corn III: Urban Harvest, where she was an extra who met a kind of gross demise. She€™s credited simply as €œEli€™s Follower€ for the cheesy horror sequel, and she can be seen standing around in the background a few times. She doesn€™t even get any lines, but her biggest indignity is when her character dies in the climax. A big God/Plant monster thing is brought to life and starts killing people off in gory ways, and when it catches Charlize it impales her with a tentacle in a place where nobody would like a tentacle to go.Charlize never brings the movie up in interviews and cites 2 Days In The Valley as her first movie, so she probably doesn€™t look back on Urban Harvest with much pride. Naomi Watts and Eva Mendes probably feel the same way about their respective Children Of The Corn sequels too.