10 Baffling Casting Decisions That Turned Out To Be Awesome

6. Charlize Theron -Aileen Wuornos

Is there a woman more beautiful than Charlize Theron? No. The answer is no. I don't care who else you were going to name, you're wrong. Yes, even you. So who better to portray the fat and ugly Aileen Wuornos - a prostitute who had a lesbian love affair and killed her clients so she could get their money without giving them sex? Okay, okay, apart from Bella Emberg? Like Craig and Damon, no one took the dazzling beauty seriously. But, true to her art, she stocked up on Domino's and Ben & Jerry's and pigged her way to a jumbo sized tub of lard. Add in prosthetic make up (there's no way conventional make up could ever make Charlize ugly, c'mon!) and lo and behold, we had a fat and ugly woman in front of our eyes (kinda like when you wake up after the night before). Personally, I felt Charlize's choice of role was one of those "look at me, I'm a serious actor, gimme an Oscar" moves - like Tom Cruise when he was going through his Born on the Fourth of July/Rain Man phase. But, to her credit, it worked. And it's hard to believe this was the same sex-strumpet who beguiled penises everywhere with her spandex-clad turn in Two Days In The Valley..
 
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