The stars of “Long Shot” address running for office, Hollywood's competing projects about Roger Ailes, and that joke about Jennifer Aniston's movie career.
In “Long Shot,” Charlize Theron plays U.S. Secretary of State Charlotte Field as she launches a presidential campaign and unexpectedly falls for her speechwriter, an idealistic journalist named Fred Flarsky played by Seth Rogen.
“I was raised in South Africa during apartheid. It's impossible for me to not be politically aware. I was just raised that way,” she said. “But there's no passion for me with any of that stuff. I look at Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, and I think he actually has a real passion for it. You should ask him that question.
“All of that stuff is always motivated by truth. It's the only way I know how to work,” she said. “For me the most important thing was that you believed it. I really had to wrap my head around owning a space where I walk out onto a stage and I could look like a presidential hopeful. That was challenging. I think it was more of a mental thing versus a physical thing. I just wanted people to believe that moment, that those were real stakes.
Later in the year Theron will have another political-themed movie: a still untitled project about Roger Ailes and Fox News, directed by Jay Roach, in which she plays newscaster Megyn Kelly and is also a co-producer. Alex Metcalf, showrunner of Showtime’s upcoming limited series “The Loudest Voice,” also about Roger Ailes and Fox News, recently trash talked the Roach project“There's movie trash talking going on?” interjected Rogen. “That’s a thing that’s happening? That’s psychotic.
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