


It felt like, Wow-how have we not done that? And the simplicity of this new fragrance-it’s revolutionary in the sense of how it was produced, with absolutely no alcohol.

So we’re paying homage to that in this campaign. We realized, all these years, we had this beautiful bottle that is like a piece of art. What about this new J’Adore formula? How do you see it reflecting this moment? Over the intervening 18 years, as Theron cycled through disparate roles-corporate minder in the sci-fi horror Prometheus (2012), grease-smeared Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), neon-lit spy in Atomic Blonde (2017), beleaguered mother in Tully (2018)-she has continued to shape-shift in golden-toned J’Adore campaigns, many by music-video director Jean-Baptiste Mondino. Later that fall, Theron presented a different kind of blonde (Hollywood waves, sculpted cheekbones) as the new face of Dior’s J’Adore perfume.
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Her live-wire portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster-helped along by prosthetic teeth, bleached brows, and an extra 30 pounds on her 5-foot-ten frame-earned her a best actress Oscar in 2004. Theron is a change artist of a generation. This is the Theron I’ve been hoping to reach: preternaturally grounded, tells it like it is, attuned to the world. I’m the asshole who made you wake up so early.” She squeezes in three more apologies, as if call times don’t frequently have her in a makeup chair before dawn. “A cool 4:55 a.m.,” I reply, trying to sound upbeat and breezy, but the effect is more of a syllabic rasp. The actor begins by asking, like a concerned citizen, what time it is at the other end of the line. Or something that makes you laugh,” Theron says by phone, explaining how she’s soaking up as much Italian life as possible. “I’ve never been a person to just sit on my couch and procrastinate, or not take advantage of the access that I have in the outside world-to go and do something that is just really fun or mischievous.
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But Theron (South Africa, 1975) is joyfully embracing her role as a movie star stationed in the Eternal City. Fan sites for the comic-book series pinpoint Andy’s origins to the Western Steppe, circa 4,700 BCE, giving her an understandably weary worldview. Also like Hepburn, Theron is momentarily a brunette, albeit with a short asymmetrical cut befitting her hardened character, Andy-short for Andromache of Scythia. Like Audrey Hepburn in the 1953 classic, Theron has been hard at work at the city’s Cinecittà studios, in this case filming the sequel to Netflix’s The Old Guard, a taut action movie about a band of immortal mercenaries. Charlize Theron has spent the summer in modified Roman Holiday fashion.
