20 Things You Didn't Know About Charlize Theron
13. Her Cinefile Instincts Initially Hindered Her Progression
Her late 90s/early 00s filmography reads like box office poison peppered with the occasional hit. While she was acclaimed for her role in The Cider House Rules, it was shoehorned by the likes of Mighty Joe Young and Trapped. Other works such as The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The Legend of Bagger Vance and the aforementioned Reindeer Games were not commercially successful, but they did have one thing in common: incredibly well-known directors.
Despite not appearing in much, she had already worked with Woody Allen, Robert Redford, Taylor Hackford and Frankenheimer.
She said of the period, "I kept finding myself in a place where directors would back me but studios didn't. [I began] a love affair with directors, the ones I really, truly admired. I found myself making really bad movies, too. Reindeer Games was not a good movie, but I did it because I loved Frankenheimer."