4 A Chance Encounter In Tinsletown
Theron’s first language isn’t English. It’s Afrikaans, the West Germanic language spoken throughout South Africa. She regretted her decision to move to Tinsletown after she failed to find an agent. She was fortunate to meet someone in the bank that gave her the break she needed.
Indie London was informed by Theron that her mother had given her a check to pay her rent. She tried to cash the cheque in Hollywood Boulevard bank. The clerk refused to cash it for some reason. Theron then “just went crazy.” But, her tantrum on that seemingly unlucky occasion turned out to be a blessing.
3 A Blessing In Disguise
After she had finished her shouting, a man gave her a business card and encouraged her to contact him. I thought he was just another guy with bulls ***,” Theron. John Crosby, a talent manager turned out to be the man. He was indeed in contact with her and introduced her to casting agents.
Soon, the young actress became Eli’s follower and landed her first role in 1995’s “Children of the Corn III Urban Harvest”. She was named her first credit the following year as Helga, James Spader’s bombshell girlfriend, in the dark comedy “Two Days in the Valley”.