en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlize_Theron
TIL that Charlize Theron's mother shot and killed her father in self defense in front of her. Charlize would later go on to be the first person born in Africa to win an Oscar for acting.
To quote Robert Downey Juniors acceptance speech:
"I'd like to thank my messed up childhood..."
Yeah, but it made me realize that if I can get my mom to shoot and kill my dad in self defense, I can finally win a bunch of awards. So yay!
Only if you’re from a continent people wouldn’t initially anticipate.
You could be the first to win from Pangaea!
Do they have a Burger King?
this bitch dont know bout pangea
Yes, but like in EU, they legally can't call it "Burger King". It's called Triassic Burger there.
Burger Rex was right there!
Hungry Jack's in Australia.
Giganto Slab in East Eurasia
Hungry Jack's in Australia.
I'm from Germany and it's called Burger King here what are you yapping?
Pangea contained almost all the landmass though, so technically we're almost all from there
Im from the states actually
This bish don't know bout Pangaea...
Buddy of mine dated a girl who's mom killed her dad with a steak knife in the kitchen right in front of her. That girl still hasn't won any awards.
There are a lot of variables we'll have to test for. Does knife vs gun matter? Is the location in the home important?
She wasn't born in Africa, though.
Hey kid, i heard you want to grow up and be Batman.
So i killed your parents.
Chill Joe!
As long as you are from Africa.. Otherwise you could be Half Batman
Are you also the first person born in Africa?
"Charlize, how are you SO GOOD acting?"
"Well, it's a funny story, actually...
...
Have you read The Power of One?"
Only if you're from Africa
You can do it!
His last words were, “you’ll have to kill me to keep me from preventing our daughter from winning an Oscar!!!”
"She'll win an Oscar over my dead body!"
I realised after the fact that this is what I should have written but I decided to leave my inferior joke up.
Charlize my baby I knew you could do it
"TIL Bruce Wayne had his parents murdered in front of him in an alley. He would later go on to become the first caped crusader of Gotham City"
Works better with Batman.
A comparable one would be more like "TIL that Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered in front of him in an alley. Bruce would later go on to be banned from eating out Catwoman."
well duh heroes dont do that /s
OP didn't know which fact was more attention-grabbing, realized they could just include both and get some extra attention by those who'll see it and think "How are these in anyway influenced by one another?".
"In spite of her trauma, she went on the be an award winning actress."
Well she did win an Oscar for portraying a serial killer who murdered the men who sought her services. I think her first victim was murdered in self-defense after raping/beating her.
"In 1925 the Great Race of Mercy takes place in Alaska, USA. The united states would later go on to drop two nuclear bombs on the sovereign nation of japan."
Probably written by AI.
It basically was meant to be , "person suffered childhood trauma, still accomplished great things:
Which should have been plainly obvious, but some people just can't help themselves.
Nah, I like AndroidParanoidOk's phrasing. Modifying words, like "still", enhance the meaning.
r/titlegore, but in a beautiful way
They ironically are linked. She won an academy award for her portrayal of woman who murdered men.
I recall reading once (with no claims to accuracy) that actors and spies frequently have a messed up childhood and that pretending to be someone else provides them with relief since they have an extreme dislike of themselves. No idea of it is true but I think of it many times when I hear how these celebrities act out. But that can just be confirmation bias - musicians and billionaires seem to be as messed up, so I do not think it is true
Ya I'm going to go with "no basis in reality but sounds good"
That sounds like a fact about spies from a spy movie. Spies are normal, the more average the better. They are supposed to blend in not stand out. Your real spies look like your average accountant.
I've heard it said that there has to be something broken in you to seek out the adoration of millions of people you don't know.
Or they could just like acting and be really good at it.
To be more general, a lot of people have "issues" and insecurities which ironically helps them get real good at whatever job they are doing.
One of the smartest people I know, who has a double phd in math and chemistry is deeply insecure about her intelligence. A guy I know who had an abusive childhood is now in the special operations forces. Literally thrives in the middle of a firefight and in his own words credits his childhood for it.
I think it explains the rampant drugs use, and money that they earned during their ‘auto therapy’ at work just enables them to make even worse decisions than those of us with low self-esteem.
Well think of it this way, after that life changing event she had to act normal for the rest of her life. So I assume she got pretty good at it and won an Oscar. The Africa part is a foot note.
Non sequitor as fuck
I was just thinking, what else can we say about her and then follow it up with "Oscar winner."
Charlize Theron started having periods at the relatively late age of 14. She then went on to win on Oscar.
People believed the mother did it in an act of self-defense. In reality, young performer did it while studying character acting. Charlize realized she was really convincing when the police mistook her for a 35 year old victim of domestic abuse.
Well you joke, but I’ve heard the conspiracy theory that the father was beating the shit out of Mom, and Charlize actually killed him to make it stop. Her mom then said she did it to take the heat.
I kind of like the title. Gave me a lot of information in that one title. Now I know 3 things about Charlize Theron that I didnt know before.
I mean when so many actors if not all of them these days are nepotism babies it does make me think she had to earn her way without the safety net of her parents.
These days?? I assure you this is not a recent phenomenon..it's never not been that way lol
Time to read up on Hollywood history. There has always been rampant nepotism in Hollywood
They are.
Are you seriously not aware the very well known fact that every Oscar winner witnessed parent murder.
Do you not read the news?!?!
Yeh but Charlize Theron ate a Roast Beef Sandwich when she was a child and later went on to star in a movie with Al Pacino.
This headline is hilarious
"What led to her being the first person born in Africa to win an Oscar? That's amazing."
"Her mom killed her dad."
Her dad wanted her to quit acting and focus on the importing. Her mom thought, "why not do both"?
- Nah, man, can't be that!
- ...In front of her!
- Oh, that explains it, then.
Did she win a regular Oscar or an Oscar Pistorius?
Oh damn, I didn't know they were chill like that 🤪🤙
Could have added, that she is more normal than fellow Elon Musk !
It’s like that old copypasta
“That child? He grew up to be Adolfo Hitler”
The person who wrote that headline? Albert Einstein.
Steve Buscemi wrote that headline on 9/11.
Leo DiCaprio broke his real toe filming Django, and smeared it over his scene partner's face
Should’ve lead of with “famous African-American actress”
I mean I did notice ‘Person born in Africa’ was weirdly worded in the first place. Just say African
It’s giving AI
Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in Austria. He would later go on to become the governor of California
Adolf Hitler was rejected as an student at the Academy of High Arts.He would later rule Germany and start WW2
I hate the phrase “One thing led to another”. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a writer to tell me how that made this happen? “Adolf Hitler was rejected as a young man in his application to an art school. One thing led to another and the United States ended up dropping two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan”.
- Brian Regan
Yada yada yada
You can't yada yada world war!
“Adolf Hitler was rejected as a young man in his application to an art school. One thing led to another and the United States ended up dropping two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan”.
To be fair that would be a pretty great opening to a book.
Yeah it feels pretty “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”.
There is a disturbing number of ppl that actually think WW2 never would have happened if he hadn't been rejected.
70-90% he would had probably still gravitated towards politics.He would had been an struggling artist în finding an job în Germany after the 1933 economic crysis.
I don't know, he could have become the world's greatest dog painter.
Jimmy Page played on singles by the Kinks and the Who and was in the Yardbirds before he formed Led Zeppelin
You know the more I hear about this Hitler fellow the more I think he was a real jerk.
I think we should kill Hitler
Good news, some guy called Hitler managed to kill Hitler.
Not sure if they’re related.
he died? I didn't even know he was sick
Nah he was just in Northern Canada.
ikr, rite? Dude couldn't even get into art school!
Leonardo Dicaprio was born. He would later go on star in a movie where the character was also previously born
I believe it was actually started over state’s rights. /s
Walter was born in Austria. He would later go on to become Gunther, the Ring General and one of the longest reigning Intercontinental Heavyweight Champions in pro-wrestling history.
To be fair, Arnold being Austrian and not American might be the reason why he never became a president of the whole damn country and had to settle for governor of California instead.
Lets face it if he was eligible you would choose him over the other geriatrics purely on the basis of he would be the least unhinged
The first governor of California born in Austria.
TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was the first person bon the 30. July 1947 in Thal, Austria to act in a terminator movie!
Elon Musk was born in South Africa. He would later go on to become one of, if not the biggest douchebags in the United States of America.
Unlike the OP, those two facts work well together.
That headline would actually make more sense
When I was 12, I had a severe allergic reaction to a bee sting. 28 years later, I would mildly shit my pants whilst thinking I could trust a fart.
I’m learning so many cause and effect facts in this post.
The long con by the bee. You may take his life, but he will ruin your pants!
Like later that day?? Impressive.
I once saw my mom tell my dad that he's a shell of who he used to be. I later went on to finish the 10 pound wing challenge at my local sports bar.
Did you guys know that Steve Buscemi played in the Sopranos and would later go on to get punched in the face in a random attack in NYC?
He was even a fire fighter !!!
In NYC on 9/11! Who knew?!
The name of the guy that punched him in the face? His name was Fire
That fire watched its mom shoot its dad in self-defense.
If only he had trained as a fist fighter instead.
Whatever happened there
WHATEVER HAPPENED THERE?!?!
The punching
That motherfucking animal Blundetto
Also, I believe he did 9/11 or something like that
I am the walrus.
I think the title got cut off. She won an Oscar for her role in the movie Monster, about a prostitute who kills her abusive male clients. So I guess the parallel is there??
That's what I thought too, but maybe it was her role in The Legend of Bagger Vance.
All I know about that movie is that there’s a Family Guy episode where Peter, Quagmire and Joe piss off Cleveland because they constantly leave him to pay their bar tab, but they think he’s hanging out with the bartender because he’s also black.
So instead of apologizing, they go to Cleveland’s house dressed like black characters. Peter and Joe both dress up as Bagger Vance, and Quagmire dresses up as Kazaam.
I think the title got cut off.
No because there's a full stop.
Her victory was a huge moment for African-Americans everywhere.
They even allowed her in the theater. Look how far we have come
If a black guy from Germany moved to America would he be European American?
I am a black guy from Germany and I get downvoted when I say that I am not african american and what people perceive as black is a culture not a skin color but thats reddit for you.
My wife teaches English lit. At one point the students read a book about South Africa and the friendship between two boys, one white and one black.
The students kept saying calling the black South African "African-American". She had to multiple times say that it was actually fine to him black since he was black.
In high school I remember a student of Cuban descent calling out a white girl in the middle of a presentation on Darfur. "They're not African Americans if they're living in Africa!" She was humiliated.
I had a teacher in high school who insisted that black people living outside Africa should all be referred to as African-Americans.
... We live in Finland.
Some people are just PC to a fault.
In Science class one day, we had been learning about how melanin effects human skin pigmentation. After school that day, at my friend's house, he and I were discussing that.
His mother happened to walk by and heard me say "so that's why black people are darker than us; a higher concentration of melanin."
She lost it. Literally started screaming at me, calling me racist, said "Black people are NO different from us. NO DIFFERENT!" and I replied "Agreed, completely, except that they're black and we're white. That's a difference."
I got kicked out of their house for saying that. Some people are just insane.
I find the term African-American so weird. It's basically saying all Africans are black, which isn't remotely true despite what Jada Pinket Smith thinks.
Hell, go tell someone from Ghana they're basically the same as a Ugandan because they're both African. They'll probably kick the shit out of you.
I've seen an American call a black South African guy "African-American". He even got pissed when the South African referred to himself as "black" because "that's racist" somehow.
I'd love to see an American's reaction to hearing about coloureds, a distinct ethnic and cultural group in South Africa who would stab you if you call them anything other than coloured.
there was a thread on the flag subreddit yday /r/vexillology about the independence movement centred around Cape Town, and there were a few people getting downvoted for using the term Coloureds even though that's exactly how Cape Coloured people describe themselves
Probably fine. "Colored" as a term has been accepted a number of times when it's been specifically used by a group like your example. The largest organization in support of black Americans is still called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Person of Color or POC is not a super common term but it's used here and there.
Both instances are terms advanced or kept by the groups in question and not white folk.
I'd also add that the number of people that would get mad at someone from Africa wanting to be called black is pretty much in the basement. That doesn't happen very often. I'm 45 and from white bread America and haven't heard "African American" used more than "black" in 25 or more years.
I loved how saying "colored person" is offensive now but "person of color" is preferred. In a lot of languages, those would be said the same way (I know at least in Japanese they would be).
EDIT: My point here is that it is a waste of "outrage" to care about being offended by one phrase and not the other since it is essentially a meaningless distinction.
EDIT: My point here is that it is a waste of "outrage" to care about being offended by one phrase and not the other
And your point doesn't have merit when the whole idea is that whether or not these words are offensive is based in the context in which they are used, which is almost always obvious to the listener. That is how language works.
They sound very violent
Yes when you strip it of all context, historical and cultural, it becomes a less than useful term.
But why would you do that?
By far the most black people in the US, the group normally referred to as African-American, are descendents of African slaves who had culture and identity stripped away.
Of course, the context is important. But I feel like it has come a bit full circle among some groups to being slightly racia again. Like saying that they're not true Americans because they come from Africa. Same with calling someone Asian-American.
Then again, I'm not American. Where I'm from, we just call each other white, black, Indian, or whatever you are.
I'm not american either, but I acknowledge that the african-american community has had to claw out their own new identity after centuries of abuse, including slavery.
I think that does make them different from the other groups in the US and I can understand if they want to retain whatever identity they have been able to build for themselves.
In many ways the black people in the US is the most american of people in that they are entirely self made and started from scratch and over came a lot of shit.
I think its only a problem when combined with American insularity. Some Americans cant comprehend that a Black guy from Germany who moves over isnt culturally similar to Black Americans.
Sure, except we would get more specific and use his nationality.
Yep
Dave Matthews celebrated with her
and Elon
She made this joke on SNL years ago as she and Tracy Morgan shared a Menthol during her monologue. It was gold.
And for Euro Africans!
Title: Here’s two random facts about Charlize Theron
I don't really see how those two facts are related.
AI headline or just a really stupid redditor?
"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hates this one trick..."
It's great seeing an African American who came from a traumatic childhood turn their life around and find success.
<runs away>
No need to run away--I mean, she is African-American. Literally.
Kinda the opposite of the story of another South African who was named Oscar
She's south African. Just call her a south African. You don't have to be a Nubian prince to be qualified as African.
I had a huge crush on Charlize Theron a friend of mine was a producer on a movie radio show. He asked if I’d like to meet her……
I put my ‘best’ shirt on lots of Joop and got myself ready….. this was it….. my big moment….. what amazing chat up line did I use?
‘I think you’re great’
Don't be scared. Say African.
Dinosaurs went extinct due to an asteroid. Today, 2 broods of cicadas are emerging.
Being very careful not to call her African
As a white African that lives in Europe its insane how people will go through mental gymnastics to avoid calling me African
The first person from Africa to win an Oscar is a white women. How comedic!
Side note, anyone know what the type of shirt she's wearing is called? The blouse with matching neck tie with no real collar to get in the way?
One of my favorite African American actors
Sounds like she comes from a successful acting background since her mother successfully acted in self-defence.
She was also famously a harbinger of my sexual awakening
Why are you white?
Oh my god Regina you can't just ask people why they are white
Random person born in Africa gets called African
White person born in Africa gets called born in Africa, not African
Double standard much?
She's an Afrikaan. Better?
The first African to win an Oscar is a white woman from South Africa. Very on-brand.
The first African*
Yeahhhh I'm going to need to exchange insurance details with you... I've got whiplash
The South Africans I know say she killed her father, not her mother.
And she won the Oscar playing a serial killer.
My sister is pregnant. Al Gore orchestrated the attacks on 9/11
Woody Harrelson's dad assassinated a federal judge.
Lana Turner’s daughter stabbed her step-father to death protecting her mother.
imagine the acting that has to go on in your daily life just to block out this trauma...... It's probably second nature to her at this point
damn they even apartheid the first oscar from them too
Truly the greatest African American actress of all time...
I'm oddly annoyed that her movie bio doesn't throw in a mention for A Million Ways to Die in the West since that movie was basically a love letter to her from Seth Macfarlane and I'd be hard pressed to say there's a movie that made her look better.
"WIN AN OSCAR WITH THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK"
/u/Korribuns wtf is this title?
Don't mess with a Boer meisie
Can’t wait for season 2 of America. The finale back on 2020 was the best thing on tv for weeks.
"First person born in Africa" seems like a mouthful to avoid calling her African, huh.
Weird non sequitur
Charlize Theron - African American
Check if your mom killed your dad in self defense because there’s a high chance you could win an oscar
I love how it makes it sound like watching her father die led to her winning an Oscar somehow
The title is weirdly constructed as if the 2 facts are supposed to be cause and effect