Theron finds the weight of those years in the extra pounds and layers of makeup with which she encumbers herself. Wuornos, who was 34 when she was arrested for the murders of seven men in Florida in 19, had been a prostitute for two decades. Much has been made of Theron's physical transformation-the weight she gained, the meticulously applied freckles and crooked teeth-but what truly impresses is the way she works from the outside in, discerning the character from the evidence of her body.
But in Monster, released on video this week, Theron gives a performance that, if overpraised by some (Roger Ebert called it "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema"), is certainly remarkable. Though more than a few reviewers claim to have discerned hidden reserves in Theron from her roles in movies such as The Devil's Advocate and Celebrity, the truth is that over the course of her still-brief career, she had shown little sign that she was destined for anything more than eye-candydom. Happily (and somewhat surprisingly), the performance lives up to the hype.
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Last year's Best Actress race had all the suspense of a political convention: Swanlike Charlize Theron's ugly-duckling turn as the serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster seemed to have the prize sewn up before the film was released, perhaps even before it was shot. There was Hillary Swank's reverse drag act in 1999, Julia Robert's white-trash beauty queen in 2000, Halle Berry's inmate's widow in 2001, and Nicole Kidman's Pinocchio act in 2002. If the last few years have taught us anything about the Oscars, it's that the Academy loves a glamorous actress in an unglamorous role.
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