Emotional movies have always been favorite among fans. Over the years, we have seen many projects that turned out to be beautiful, sometimes sad, and also earned critical and commercial acclaim. Charlize Theron also spoke about her most memorable emotional movie and it is the 2011 movie starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
The movie 50/50 starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen centers around the life of a cancer patient and his battle for victory. The Jonathan Levine directorial garnered critical acclaim and is considered one of the best movies released in 2011 by many critics as well as casual audiences. Charlize Theron is a big fan of the approach taken by the movie.
How 50/50 turned out to be a memorable movie for Charlize Theron?
Different people have different ways of showing emotions. Charlize Theron admitted that she loves to cry from laughter and 50/50 was successful in doing it. The revelation occurred while she was shooting a video for W Magazine answering questions asked by her fans.
The Mad Max: Fury Road actress revealed that it’s actually hard for her to cry but she loved the approach taken by 50/50.
“It’s all hard for me to cry. I mean, I cry from laughter. The last film that I saw that did that to me was 50/50.”
Adding more to the topic of emotional movies, Charlize Theron also spoke about the kind of emotional movies she loves to watch.
“I love movies that can kind of like catch you off-guard, and you’re emotionally crying and then they just kind of sucker punch you and you’re like snotty laughing crying. I love those cries. Those are my favourite cries like, but yeah I’m a bit of a sap for sure, I’d be the first one to admit it.”
The movie starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, and Bryce Dallas Howard welcomed worldwide praise after its release. 50/50 garnered $41 million on a mere budget of $8 million and Gordon-Levitt’s performance brought wide appreciation. But besides this movie, Theron also feels emotional watching an MCU movie.
Which MCU movie made Charlize Theron emotional?
While Charlize Theron was recently spotted in the mid-credits scene of MCU’s Doctor Strange 2 as Clea. Reportedly, the Atomic Blonde actress is presently out of any clues about her MCU venture.
But the Fast X actress once spoke about an MCU movie that made her emotional as she could relate it to a personal level. Black Panther, which is hailed as one of the best MCU ventures also impressed Theron and made her emotional as the African actress could feel various issues seen in the movie.
“For me to watch Black Panther as the person I am—and I know this sounds crazy to a lot of people—but it is a very emotional thing, it was a very emotional thing for me to watch it, I was born and raised in South Africa during the apartheid era, and I am very much a white African who lived and thrived under tremendously dark circumstances. And that really marks you as a person. Whether that’s your ideology or not, you’re living in it.”
Charlize Theron had come a long way as she has bagged a huge collection of honorary rewards along with an Academy Award in 2004 for Monster. The 47-year-old played the role of a real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornosin the Patty Jenkins directorial. Besides that, she has also bagged more than 60 wins in different categories of awards.
50/50 can be rented on Apple TV+.
Source: W Magazine
