<p>Actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charlize-theron-says-giving-up-acting-career-for-motherhood-would-be-a-no-brainer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charlize Theron</a> said she would no longer alter her body for movie roles because losing the extra pounds for parts portraying heavier characters has become much more difficult.</p>
<p>The 48-year-old told <a href="https://www.allure.com/story/charlize-theron-aging-facelift-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Allure magazine</a> that she&#8217;s still dealing with the effects of her fluctuating weight for movies like &#8220;Tully&#8221; as her metabolism has slowed as she has aged.</p>
<p>&#8220;I will never, ever do a movie again and say, &#8216;Yeah, I&#8217;ll gain 40 pounds,'&#8221; Theron said. &#8220;I will never do it again because you can&#8217;t take it off.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;When I was 27, I did &#8216;Monster.&#8217; I lost 30 pounds, like, overnight,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I missed three meals and I was back to my normal weight. Then I did it at 43 for &#8216;Tully,&#8217; and I remember a year into trying to lose the weight, I called my doctor and I said, &#8216;I think I&#8217;m dying because I cannot lose this weight.'&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;And he was like, &#8216;You&#8217;re over 40. Calm down. Your metabolism is not what it was,'&#8221; the &#8220;Atomic Blonde&#8221; star continued. &#8220;Nobody wants to hear that.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;The thing that really bums me out is that I make action movies now and if I hurt myself, I take way longer to heal than I did in my 20s,&#8221; the actress said. &#8220;More than my face, I wish I had my 25-year-old body that I can just throw against the wall and not even hurt tomorrow.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Now, if I don&#8217;t work out for three days and I go back to the gym, I can&#8217;t walk,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I can&#8217;t sit down on the toilet. It&#8217;s all those very real moments.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the same interview, Theron <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charlize-theron-denies-plastic-surgery-rumors-im-just-aging" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hit back</a> at &#8220;bad plastic surgery&#8221; claims and admitted she&#8217;s just getting older.</p>
<p>&#8220;My face is changing, and I love that my face is changing and aging,&#8221; Theron said. &#8220;But people think I had a facelift. They&#8217;re like, &#8216;What did she do to her face?&#8217; I&#8217;m like, &#8216;B****, I’m just aging! It doesn&#8217;t mean I got bad plastic surgery. This is just what happens.'&#8221;</p>


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Charlize Theron Says She Will No Longer Alter Body For A Movie Role

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actress </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/charlize-theron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charlize Theron</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> says she hasn&#8217;t had </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/plastic-surgery"><span style="font-weight: 400;">plastic surgery</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or put fillers in her face, despite rumors claiming she has.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;My face is changing, and I love that my face is changing and aging,&#8221; the 48-year-old actress said in a recent interview with </span><a href="https://www.allure.com/story/charlize-theron-aging-facelift-interview"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Allure</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theron went on to address speculation running rampant among her fan base. She claimed any changes to her appearance are the result of time, not cosmetic procedures. &#8220;People think I&#8217;ve had a facelift. They’re like, &#8216;What did she do to her face?&#8217; I’m like, &#8216;B***, I’m just aging! It doesn’t mean I got bad plastic surgery. This is just what happens,'&#8221; the “Atomic Blonde” actress continued.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She said there is a double standard between the sexes regarding aging.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’ve always had issues with the fact that men kind of age like fine wines and women like cut flowers,” Theron said. &#8220;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I despise that concept and I want to fight against it, but I also think women want to age in a way that feels right to them. I think we need to be a little bit more empathetic to how we all go through our journey,&#8221; Theron told the outlet. “My journey of having to see my face on a billboard is quite funny now.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “Fast X” actress also discussed how her two children see and react to the aging process.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;They see somebody, they like what they’re wearing, or they think they’re pretty and they don’t really know if she’s in her 20s or she’s in her 60s,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It’s so great. I love that. I wish we could just maintain that.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theron is the mother of two adopted children, one of whom she says has identified as </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charlize-theron-says-giving-up-acting-career-for-motherhood-would-be-a-no-brainer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">transgender</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> since the age of three. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,” Theron told the Daily Mail of Jackson in 2019. “Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, ‘I am not a boy.’”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be,” the actress said of her children. “And I will do everything in my power for my kids to have that right and to be protected within that.”</span></p>


Charlize Theron Denies Plastic Surgery Rumors: ‘I’m Just Aging!’

Charlize Theron Denies Plastic Surgery Rumors

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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/absolute-humiliation-megyn-kelly-slams-chrissy-teigen-appearing-at-whcd-in-non-existent-dress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megyn Kelly</a> hit back at actress Charlize Theron, an LGBTQ-themed online news outlet, and others after Theron recently threatened to &#8220;f*** anybody up&#8221; who opposes drag queens.</p>
<p>During Sirius XM&#8217;s &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGsmXBGvdktmSjnxkzjmNnFqpDx?projector=1">podcast</a> on Friday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megyn-kelly-torches-dylan-mulvaney-for-complaining-companies-just-want-him-to-check-a-box" target="_blank" rel="noopener">host</a> discussed Theron&#8217;s appearance on the &#8220;Drag Isn&#8217;t Dangerous&#8221; telethon. Kelly said she doesn&#8217;t know the Hollywood star but admitted she feels a &#8220;weird connection with this person&#8221; because Theron played Kelly in a movie. In 2019, Theron starred in &#8220;Bombshell,&#8221; a film about female Fox employees who took on network executive Roger Ailes and accused him of fostering a toxic work environment.</p>
<p>&#8220;Okay, so why doesn&#8217;t Charlize Theron come and f*** me up?&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megyn-kelly-goes-viral-with-7-word-response-to-dylan-mulvaney-complaining-about-being-labeled-a-man" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kelly</a> said. &#8220;Because I&#8217;m 100% against her on this. Yes, there are fun drag queen shows. I&#8217;ve been to them &#8230; It was all adults. But there are drag queen shows out there right now that are deeply disturbing and they&#8217;re happening in front of young children. So know what you&#8217;re supporting.&#8221;</p>
<p>On Monday&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-_fAOaQuZg">podcast</a>, the former Fox News host hit back at critics, including a news outlet called LGBTQ Nation that accused Kelly of making &#8220;false claims&#8221; about drag shows.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t understand, Charlize [Theron], and LGBTQ Nation, and whoever else came after me for the Friday comments, which I&#8217;m fine with – but if you don&#8217;t understand that there actually is a problem, and if you&#8217;re not equally outraged about it, then you are part of the problem.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re setting the stage for further grooming and exploitation of children,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And the Charlize Theron thing is so disturbing because guess who the pedophiles mostly go after? There are millions of them in the United States … And the problem for somebody like Charlize Theron with all of her privilege to come out and say, &#8216;I will f*** you up if you oppose drag queens,&#8217; is that she could not come from a more privileged position.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Guess who the pedophiles go after first?&#8221; the podcast host said. &#8220;The kids from broken homes, the poor kids, the kids who have a parent who&#8217;s addicted to drugs, or alcohol, the kids who wind up in the system are having committed a juvenile defense, the kids who don&#8217;t have a rich and famous mother out there saying, &#8216;Slay queen!'&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;She can lay the groundwork all she wants for drag queen performances everywhere,&#8221; Kelly added. &#8220;She&#8217;s not going to have to pick up the mess. She&#8217;s not going to have to deal with the children who get hurt as a result of us pretending this isn&#8217;t happening, and it&#8217;s all fine, it&#8217;s all just well and good. It&#8217;s not.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s dangerous,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megyn-kelly-says-she-needs-to-atone-for-her-past-reporting-on-nbc-about-gender-dysphoria-calling-for-tolerance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kelly</a> continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s the truth. I stand by every word I said, I would like the word spread wide – far and wide – so more people like Charlize Theron and LGBTQ Nation can educate themselves. That consensual entertainment between adults is one thing. And the sexualization and grooming, indeed it is grooming of young children is another.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-sold-us-a-bill-of-goods-megyn-kelly-says-transgender-movement-has-gone-too-far">&#8216;They Sold Us A Bill Of Goods&#8217;: Megyn Kelly Says Transgender Movement Has Gone &#8216;Too Far&#8217;</a></strong></p>


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‘Why Doesn’t Charlize Theron Come And F*** Me Up?’: Megyn Kelly Torches Actress Over Drag Queen Ultimatum

Megyn Kelly Torches Actress Over Drag Queen Ultimatum

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actress </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/charlize-theron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charlize Theron</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> shared a warning with any individuals who take issue with drag queens.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 47-year-old </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities"><span style="font-weight: 400;">star</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was participating in the “Drag Isn&#8217;t Dangerous” telethon, a star-studded event meant to raise money for &#8220;charitable </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq"><span style="font-weight: 400;">LGBTQ</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> causes.&#8221; The event featured live entertainment and performances from Hollywood celebrities. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theron used the opportunity to confirm her support for the </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/drag-queen"><span style="font-weight: 400;">drag performers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We love you queens! We&#8217;re in your corner, and we&#8217;ve got you, and I will f*** anybody up who is, like, trying to f*** with anything with you guys,” the “Mad Max” star </span><a href="https://people.com/movies/charlize-theron-says-she-will-f-anybody-up-who-attacks-drag-queens/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> during the event.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In all seriousness, there are so many things that are hurting and, really, killing our kids, right, and we all know what I&#8217;m talking about right now.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theron went on to say that drag was virtuous and made viewers “better” for watching it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If you&#8217;ve ever seen a drag queen lip sync for her life, it only makes you happier, it only makes you love more. It makes you a better person,” Theron said. “F***, if I could do a death drop right now I would, but I would probably like, break my hip,” she said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theron concluded by asking viewers to “support all the great organizations that are out there helping all of this nonsense going away like it should, all of these incredibly stupid policies.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These so-called &#8220;stupid policies&#8221; include legislation introduced in multiple states which would restrict sexually explicit performances in front of children. Many of these bills do not mention drag specifically but rather encompass any performances that are inappropriate for minors. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reba-mcentire-rips-new-tennessee-law-protecting-children-from-drag-shows"><span style="font-weight: 400;">example</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill into law that was set to take effect April 1 that banned “adult cabaret entertainment” on public property or where minors can witness it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theron is a vocal advocate for LGBTQ people. Her adopted son identifies as transgender, which the actress said began at a very young age. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,” the actress </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11711109/Charlize-Theron-models-pink-coat-daughter-August-Los-Angeles.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Daily Mail in 2019. “Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said: ‘I am not a boy!’ So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide,” Theron said.</span></p>


Charlize Theron Threatens To ‘F*** Anybody Up’ Who Opposes Drag Queens During Pro-Drag Celebrity Telethon

Charlize Theron Threatens To 'F*** Anybody Up' Anyone Who Opposes Drag Queens During Pro-Drag Celebrity Telethon 

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If actress </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/charlize-theron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charlize Theron</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was forced to choose between her </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities"><span style="font-weight: 400;">career</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and motherhood, she said she’d pick the latter.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 47-year-old mom of two adopted </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/children"><span style="font-weight: 400;">children</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> made the comments during a recent <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/charlize-theron-interview-old-guard-sequel-producing-doctor-strange-1235276201/">interview</a> with The Hollywood Reporter.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s my life, and I want to participate in it,&#8221; Theron said when asked how she likes to “do s***” herself.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She went on to discuss the difficulties in juggling between her mother and actress roles but made clear which matters most.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;One thing that early tragedy brought me is the realization that you don’t have forever. You just don’t. And it’s easy to be like, ‘Oh, it’s one movie,’ but then it’s another movie and another. And I don’t want to sound like I’m carrying some message on my sleeve, but I do think for women, we worry [that] if we don’t work harder and we don’t keep pushing, we will never quite arrive. And it is exhausting. I never feel like, &#8216;Oh, I can just f***ing enjoy this.'&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;But you do get more perspective as you get older, and, at almost 50, it does get easier,&#8221; Theron continued. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;And my kids help. I love being a mom more than I like being an actor or a producer. And I never thought I would say that. If somebody said to me tomorrow, ‘You can’t do both,’ would I be sad to give up acting? Of course. But it would be a no-brainer for me.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theron is one of many celebrities whose child identifies as transgender. As The Daily Wire previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charlize-theron-talks-about-her-7-year-old-transgender-child-wants-folks-to-use-right-pronouns"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the actress adopted one of her children, Jackson, in 2012. Theron recalled treating the child as a boy until the age of 3, which is when she decided her son was really a girl. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,” Theron told the Daily Mail in 2019. “Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, ‘I am not a boy.&#8217;”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be,” the actress said of her children. “And I will do everything in my power for my kids to have that right and to be protected within that.”</span></p>


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Charlize Theron Says Giving Up Acting Career For Motherhood Would Be A ‘No-Brainer’

Charlize Theron Says Giving Up Acting Career For Motherhood Would Be A 'No-Brainer'

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s been years since the 2015 blockbuster “Mad Max: Fury Road” was released, but the film became a topic of conversation all over again thanks to a tell-all book detailing some tense situations on set. New York Times culture reporter Kyle Buchanan penned the non-fiction account &#8220;Blood, Sweat &amp; Chrome: The Wild and True Story of  Mad Max: Fury Road.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The most surprising allegations in the book have to do with the relationship between co-stars Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. An excerpt from the book detailing the cast and crew witnessing an altercation was published to </span><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/mad-max-fury-road-tom-hardy-charlize-theron-excerpt"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vanity Fair</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> this week.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I remember vividly the day,&#8221; camera operator Mark Goellnicht said in the book. &#8220;The call on set was eight o&#8217;clock. Charlize got there right at eight o&#8217;clock, sat in the War Rig, knowing that Tom&#8217;s never going to be there at eight even though they made a special request for him to be there on time.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hardy &#8220;was notorious for never being on time in the morning,&#8221; Goellnicht explained. &#8220;If the call time was in the morning, forget it — he didn&#8217;t show up.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Eleven o&#8217;clock. She&#8217;s now in the War Rig [a giant truck], sitting there with her makeup on and a full costume for three hours,&#8221; Goellnicht recalled. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Tom turns up, and he walks casually across the desert. She jumps out of the War Rig, and she starts swearing her head off at him, saying, &#8216;Fine the f***ing c**t a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he&#8217;s held up this crew,&#8217; and &#8216;How disrespectful you are!&#8217; She was right. Full rant.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“He charged up to her up and went, &#8216;What did you say to me?'&#8221; the cameraman continued. &#8220;He was quite aggressive. She really felt threatened, and that was the turning point, because then she said, &#8216;I want someone as protection.&#8217; She then had a producer that was assigned to be with her all the time.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Boy f***ing howdy, was it clear that those two people hated each other,” editor J. Houston Yang agreed. “They didn’t want to touch each other, they didn’t want to look at each other, they wouldn’t face each other if the camera wasn’t actively rolling.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Co-star Nicholas Hoult said the on-set atmosphere was like being “on your summer holidays and the adults in the front of the car are arguing.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theron agreed with that assessment, saying, “It was horrible! We should not have done that; we should have been better. I can own up to that.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;It got to a place where it was kind of out of hand, and there was a sense that maybe sending a woman producer down could maybe equalize some of it, because I didn&#8217;t feel safe,&#8221; Theron said, according to the book.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;In hindsight, I was in over my head in many ways,&#8221; Hardy said in the book. &#8220;The pressure on both of us was overwhelming at times. What she needed was a better, perhaps more experienced partner in me. That&#8217;s something that can&#8217;t be faked. I&#8217;d like to think that now that I&#8217;m older and uglier, I could rise to that occasion.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Goellnicht also remembers when the vibe on set shifted, with Hardy and Theron reaching a truce and overcoming their animosity. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;That scene where you see Tom with Charlize on the bike and all the Vuvalini and the Wives behind, intermingled — that scene was probably the biggest change in seeing Tom really soften to Charlize in real life,&#8221; the cameraman recalled. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;We were all unprepared for how he performed that, and then I walked off and Charlize was walking back, and I said, &#8216;Geez, Charlize, that was amazing. Did a light switch go off? He was great.&#8217; She was quite taken aback by it, too.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;He was a different person by the end,&#8221; Goellnicht continued. &#8220;A lot easier to deal with, a lot more cooperative, more compassionate.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p>Numerous celebrities and Left-wing politicians were out having a lovely time at this year&#8217;s Super Bowl in Los Angeles County, and they were notably without masks.</p>
<p>SoFi Stadium, where the Super Bowl was played, has a rule that masks are required indoors and outdoors during events with more than 5,000 people.</p>
<p>Among those partying it up maskless were Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Jay-Z, Ellen DeGeneres, Will Ferrell, Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-rock-seems-to-denounce-joe-rogan-then-video-resurfaces-of-his-wwe-chinese-impression">The Rock</a>,&#8221; among others.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yet kids around the country will be required to wear masks at school this morning <a href="https://t.co/C9t8N2WKMs">pic.twitter.com/C9t8N2WKMs</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Fed Up (@Fedup2479) <a href="https://twitter.com/Fedup2479/status/1493221995466526721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Social media quickly erupted with criticism, highlighting that schoolchildren in Los Angeles are still <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/california-mask-mandate-ignored-high-014858366.html">required</a> to wear masks at school. Some also pointed out specific celebrities&#8217; personal flip-flop, or hypocrisy on masks.</p>
<p>For example, Theron in the past posted to her Instagram that everyone should &#8220;wear a damn mask&#8221; and &#8220;don&#8217;t be an a**.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Any virtue-signaling mask-tyrants who ordered us and our kiddos to wear USELESS &amp; filthy masks, should&#8211;as punishment&#8211;wear masks from here on out. </p>
<p>Do you agree?<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hypocrites?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hypocrites</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OwnIt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OwnIt</a> <a href="https://t.co/6o3BwWGLvi">https://t.co/6o3BwWGLvi</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Kari Lake for AZ Governor (@KariLake) <a href="https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1493099606879600641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The Rock, who was spotted maskless at the Super Bowl, slammed politicians who told the public that masks are a personal choice.</p>
<p>&#8220;Wear your mask. It baffles me that some people out there, including some politicians, will take this idea of wearing masks and make it part of a political agenda,&#8221; Johnson scolded in an Instagram video.</p>
<p>&#8220;It has nothing to do with politics. Wear your mask,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It is a fact. And it is the right thing to do, not only for yourself, but for your family and your loved ones, and also for your fellow human beings.&#8221;</p>
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<p>And then there was Los Angeles Democrat mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eq-hes-really-good-at-holding-his-breath-cruz-drags-la-mayor-garcetti-going-maskless-at-super-bowl">Eric Garcetti</a>, who was, too, spotted maskless at the Super Bowl.</p>
<p>Garcetti just last week was widely mocked when he was photographed maskless at the stadium for the NFC Championship game and assured critics he was holding his breath.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">LA Mayor <a href="https://twitter.com/ericgarcetti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ericgarcetti</a> once again ignoring the mask mandate. That’s the second game in a row (last time he said he was holding his breath), but they are still forcing kids to wear masks every day. <a href="https://t.co/PaGRhbye2x">pic.twitter.com/PaGRhbye2x</a></p>
<p>&mdash; AG (@AGHamilton29) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1493024082341908480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Some on the Left have suggested the &#8220;science&#8221; has &#8220;changed,&#8221; and now masks are not necessary.</p>
<p>However, the &#8220;science&#8221; seems to have been impacted by politics. At the start of the pandemic, public health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci told people not to wear masks, before quickly promoting mask mandates on the public, including children. Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/does-this-mean-snot-nosed-censors-at-youtube-will-come-to-my-office-and-kiss-my-rand-paul-smashes-youtube">admitted</a> that “loosely woven cloth products provide the least protection.”</p>
<p>The general outrage at the inconsistency about masks exploded online.</p>
<p>&#8220;Here’s the video of every celebrity without a mask during the Super Bowl. But every kid in California will have to be wearing them tomorrow in school. They must all be holding their breaths the entire game,&#8221; posted Clay Travis.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here’s the video of every celebrity without a mask during the Super Bowl. But every kid in California will have to be wearing them tomorrow in school. They must all be holding their breaths the entire game. <a href="https://t.co/Dc9yVd7RPf">pic.twitter.com/Dc9yVd7RPf</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1493028002007035916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Celebrities and rich people are allowed to not wear masks,&#8221; commented Tim Pool. &#8220;It&#8217;s just the poors who have to because they are unclean.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">celebrities and rich people are allowed to not wear masks</p>
<p>its just the poors who have to because they are unclean <a href="https://t.co/UDvHU5alHy">https://t.co/UDvHU5alHy</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Tim Pool (@Timcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1493220970466795524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Of course celebrities and politicians didn&#8217;t wear masks at the Superbowl,&#8221; Janice Dean wrote.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Of course celebrities and politicians didn&#39;t wear masks at the Superbowl.</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1493168935868547073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Hollywood is awful part 2. Zero masks,&#8221; she captioned photos. &#8220;PS I don’t care that they aren’t wearing masks. Just let the rest of us do the same. Especially our kids.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hollywood is awful part 2. Zero masks. <a href="https://t.co/JDkupwSgE1">pic.twitter.com/JDkupwSgE1</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1493212227431813131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">PS I don’t care that they aren’t wearing masks.  Just let the rest of us do the same.  Especially our kids.</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1493213565322465284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Kids in California still have to wear masks. Disgusting,&#8221; popular Twitter account &#8220;Lib of Tik Tok&#8221; commented.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kids in California still have to wear masks. Disgusting <a href="https://t.co/F6Te1b4TGn">pic.twitter.com/F6Te1b4TGn</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1493024146665586688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Seeing 71,000 maskless screaming fans at the Super Bowl made me very worried about COVID spread,&#8221; wrote Justin Spiro. &#8220;But then I remembered that 5-year-olds will have cloth masks on their face tomorrow, so crisis averted! We’ll all be safe now!&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Seeing 71,000 maskless screaming fans at the Super Bowl made me very worried about COVID spread.</p>
<p>But then I remembered that 5-year-olds will have cloth masks on their face tomorrow, so crisis averted!</p>
<p>We’ll all be safe now!</p>
<p>&mdash; Justin Spiro, LCSW (@Jusrangers) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jusrangers/status/1493015172310519815?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;If nobody minds wearing a mask, why is nobody wearing them at the Super Bowl,&#8221; questioned Bethany Mandel.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">If nobody minds wearing a mask, why is nobody wearing them at the Super  Bowl</p>
<p>&mdash; Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) <a href="https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/1493047650022825986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;LA just held an indoor event for 4+ hours with over 75,000 people, including the Mayor, with no masks or social distancing,&#8221; wrote Jenna Ellis. &#8220;This is the same LA County that threatened jail time for an 82-year-old pastor for having a church service indoors. Are you paying attention yet?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is also the same LA County that will force masks on school children for 8 hours Monday morning,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Petty tyranny must END.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is also the same LA County that will force masks on school children for 8 hours Monday morning.</p>
<p>Petty tyranny must END.</p>
<p>&mdash; Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1493113714299473923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Charlize Theron has made a career for herself as both a serious actress (see &#8220;Monster&#8221;) and an action heroine in movies like &#8220;The Italian Job,&#8221; &#8220;Aeon Flux,&#8221; &#8220;Mad Max: Fury Road,&#8221; and many more. She says, however, the road to action stardom has not always been easy, having met obstacles like sexism and bias.</p>
<p>Speaking on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeeH5s3U-bA&amp;amp;feature=emb_title" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“Evolution of a Bada**s” panel</a> during Comic-Con@Home this past Friday, Theron said she learned of Hollywood&#8217;s &#8220;misconception&#8221; about female action heroes when prepping for her role on &#8220;The Italian Job.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I realized there was still so much misconception around women in the genre,&#8221; she said, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/charlize-theron-unfair-treatment-woman-action-movies">Fox News</a>. &#8220;The only good thing that came out of that experience was that there was a real pressure to pull off those stunts with the actors – and that was the first time I experienced anything like that. But there was a very unfair process that went with that. I was the only woman with a bunch of guys, and I remember vividly getting the schedule in our preproduction and they had scheduled me for six weeks more car training than any of the guys.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It was just so insulting, but it was also the thing that put a real fire under my a** and I was like, &#8216;All right, you guys want to play this game? Let&#8217;s go,'&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I made it a point to out-drive all of those guys. I vividly remember Mark Wahlberg, halfway through one of our training sessions, pulling over and throwing up because he was so nauseous from doing 360s.&#8221;</p>
<p>Theron said that her position as an action movie hero changed upon her role in 2015&#8217;s &#8220;Mad Max: Fury Road.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t until &#8216;Mad Max: Fury Road&#8217; came my way &#8212; that experience and what happened with that film really changed the trajectory for me,” she said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I will ever recover from the making of that film.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There is a responsibility to hand that baton over, that it&#8217;s not just about you,” she added. “Listen, it&#8217;s still disproportionate to our male counterparts out there, and we have to keep putting the pressure on our industry to change that.”</p>
<p>Going forward, Theron said she wants young girls to not think of a female action hero – something that has existed since Sigourney Weaver said &#8220;get away from her, you b***h&#8221; in 1986&#8217;s &#8220;Aliens&#8221; – as something weird or out of place.</p>
<p>&#8220;I want my two young girls to grow up and not even think that this is weird or this is unusual or this is strange,&#8221; Theron said. &#8220;I want this to be normalized.&#8221;</p>
<p>Charlize Theron made headlines last year when she confessed to raising her seven-year-old adopted son as a girl ever since he was three.</p>
<p>“Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,” Charlize told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6938233/Charlize-Theron-child-thought-boy-girl.html">the Daily Mail</a>. “Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said: ‘I am not a boy!&#8217;”</p>
<p>“So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive,” she continued. “They were born who they are, and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide.”</p>
<p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charlize-theron-my-seven-year-old-son-really-girl-paul-bois">Charlize Theron: My Seven-Year-Old Son Is Really A Girl</a></strong></p>


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<p>&#8220;Bombshell&#8221; actress Charlize Theron recently discussed her biologically male &#8220;transgender&#8221; child, asking people to use the &#8220;right&#8221; pronouns when they speak about seven-year-old Jackson.</p>
<p>&#8220;My daughter&#8217;s story is really her story, and one day, if she chooses, she&#8217;ll tell her story,&#8221; the actress told Pride Source, according to <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/actress-charlize-theron-says-she-would-appreciate-it-if-people-called-her-transgender-7-year-old-by-the-right-pronoun">TheBlaze</a>. &#8220;I feel like as her mother, for me, it was important to let the world know that I would appreciate it if they would use the right pronouns for her.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it became harder for us the older she got that people were still writing about her in the wrong pronouns, and also I was still talking about her in the press using the wrong pronoun,&#8221; Theron said. &#8220;It really hurt her feelings. I don&#8217;t want to be that mom, and that was really why I [revealed the news about Jackson] a while back.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jackson was adopted by Theron in 2012. Up until the child was three years old, the actress said in April, she wrongly thought Jackson was &#8220;a boy.&#8221; The child, according to Theron, is a girl.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,&#8221; Theron told U.K. outlet <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6938233/Charlize-Theron-child-thought-boy-girl.html">The Daily Mail</a>. &#8220;Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, &#8216;I am not a boy.'&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be,&#8221; the actress said of her children. &#8220;And I will do everything in my power for my kids to have that right and to be protected within that.&#8221;</p>
<p>Theron is not the only Hollywood celebrity to indulge his/her child&#8217;s seeming gender confusion.</p>
<p>In September, &#8220;Transformers&#8221; actress Megan Fox defended her decision to let her six-year-old son Noah wear dresses to school.</p>
<p>Speaking with “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sara-gilbert-the-talk-conners-leaving" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Talk</a>,&#8221; &#8220;Fox said that her son sometimes wants to wear dresses to his &#8216;liberal, hippy&#8217; school, and she allows him to pick the outfit he desires despite the ridicule he faces from other boys,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megan-fox-defends-letting-her-6-year-old-son-wear-paul-bois">The Daily Wire</a> reported.</p>
<p>“Sometimes, he’ll dress himself and he likes to wear dresses, sometimes,” said the mother of three. “And I send him to a really liberal, hippy school, but even there — here in California — he still has little boys going, ‘Boys don’t wear dresses,’ or ‘Boys don’t wear pink.&#8217;”</p>
<p>“So we’re going through that now, where I’m trying to teach him to be confident no matter what anyone else says,” the &#8220;Jennifer&#8217;s Body&#8221; star continued.</p>
<p>“He had stopped wearing dresses for a while. He just wore one two days ago to school, and he came home and I was like, ‘How was it? Did any of the friends at school have anything to say?&#8217;” Fox explained. “And he was like, ‘Well, all the boys laughed when I came in, but I don’t care, I love dresses too much.&#8217; &#8230; He designs, he draws outfits. He’s very talented.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megan-fox-defends-letting-her-6-year-old-son-wear-paul-bois">Megan Fox Defends Letting Her 6-Year-Old Son Wear Dresses To School</a></strong></p>


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<p>Singer Alicia Keys expressed frustration this week over the fact her four-year-old son, Genesis, did not want to wear his rainbow manicure anymore.</p>
<p>Alicia Keys said more people should embrace their &#8220;masculine and feminine energies&#8221; after describing how her four-year-old son told her he didn&#8217;t want to wear his rainbow manicure anymore.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.insider.com/alicia-keys-son-was-scared-to-wear-rainbow-manicure-2019-11">Insider</a>, the &#8220;No One&#8221; singer said in a video posted to Instagram that her son was originally excited to get his nails painted before having a change of heart after seeing they were rainbow-colored.</p>
<p>&#8220;So he tells the lady that he wants rainbow colors on his nails, and she brings all of these colors, and she paints each nail a different color,&#8221; Keys said in the video. &#8220;And after she painted his nails, he looked at me, he said, &#8216;Mommy, I don&#8217;t want this on my nails.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Keys went on to lament how her son believed that people would be judgemental of his rainbow-colored nails.</p>
<p>&#8220;And I was like, &#8216;Why? You were so sure. You were good.&#8217; And he was like, &#8216;People are not going to like it.&#8217; Can you believe this? Four years old. He&#8217;s four! And he already understands the concept that someone&#8217;s going to judge him because he chose rainbow colors on his nails,&#8221; she continued.</p>
<p>The singer said she encouraged her son to not care what anyone else has to say. &#8220;You chose it. You liked it. You do it. Who cares what anybody else says?&#8221; Keys allegedly told her son, adding that &#8220;a lot of guys paint their nails.&#8221;</p>
<p>Genesis allegedly felt better about the situation after Keys gave him a pep talk. She concluded the Instagram video by hoping that people will step outside of gender stereotyping to explore &#8220;masculine and feminine energies.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It gets concerning to me that we can&#8217;t just explore these different sides of ourselves,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I oftentimes express the masculine energy that&#8217;s inside of me. All the time, if that happens, there&#8217;s the judgments, and there&#8217;s the stereotypes, and there&#8217;s all the energy that comes toward that.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And for my boys, you know, similar. If they want to express the feminine energy that&#8217;s inside of them, there&#8217;s all these judgments and all these rules and stereotypes and vibes,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s really frustrating to me. I&#8217;m actually really, really frustrated about it.&#8221;</p>
<p>As noted by Insider, Keys received overwhelmingly positive responses from her massive amount of followers.</p>
<p>&#8220;This kid. This expression. This parenting. This thinking. THIS is the stuff that will change the world. For the better,&#8221; one follower said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I loved your feedback to him. So beautiful,&#8221; said another.</p>
<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a young King and he can explore and express his creativity at anytime! We support it as his parents,&#8221; wrote Keys&#8217; husband, the music producer Swizz Beatz.</p>
<p>This past April, actress Charlize Theron <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46193/charlize-theron-my-seven-year-old-son-really-girl-paul-bois">told the Daily Mail</a> that she began dressing her three-year-old son like a girl the moment he told her, &#8220;I’m not a boy!&#8221; Theron also defined parenting as simply celebrating her children as they wish to be, rather than as serving as a guide to help direct children.</p>
<p>“I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive,” Theron said at the time. “They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide.”</p>


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<p>When approaching her role in Lionsgate’s “Bombshell,” actress Charlize Theron was apprehensive, reports <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/02/entertainment/charlize-theron-megyn-kelly-bombshell/index.html">CNN</a>.</p>
<p>“This was not a person who was easy for me to wrap my arms around,” Theron said at a recent panel in L.A.</p>
<blockquote><p>From afar it looks like we have nothing in common – obviously, I&#8217;m a liberal and a lot of these women have said things that have been deeply upsetting to me. But at the same time, as a woman, understanding what each of them went through and understanding what Megyn was facing, especially in those two weeks where she didn&#8217;t step forward and she didn&#8217;t support Gretchen [Carlson], that&#8217;s when I emotionally tapped into her because I started to see similarities between us, dare I say that.</p></blockquote>
<p>“Bombshell,” a film that chronicles the downfall of former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes after allegations of sexual misconduct, stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie. It was written by Charles Randolph, who co-wrote 2015’s “The Big Short,” and directed by Jay Roach, who directed political dramas “All The Way” and “Game Change.”</p>
<p>“I saw a woman with ambition, with drive, and all of a sudden I realized, ‘S***, this is the kind of stuff that&#8217;s been weaponized against me. I relate to that.’ That&#8217;s when it became clear to me just how important this story was,” Theron stated. “Because if we can see the power of the message through someone who we may not agree with or somebody who might even anger us, that tells you there&#8217;s something real there.”</p>
<p>Theron added that it was difficult to analyze Megyn Kelly as a person because so much of the available footage of the former Fox News anchor is from her doing her job as a journalist.</p>
<p>Theron had previously <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/charlize-theron-megyn-kelly-bombshell-monster.html">discussed</a> the role, and the way in which actors are supposed to engage with character research, with CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>You forget sometimes – all of us do this – we think we know people, we have our preconceived ideas of them. As an actor, you have to have that ability to put all of that aside and do research, and to actually find out about somebody.</p></blockquote>
<p>Theron added that there were certain aspects of the part that “bothered” her. It wasn’t until she came to the understanding that the movie was a portrait of the women who took on an alleged abuser at Fox News, rather than a Megyn Kelly biopic, that it “felt &#8230; like a story worth telling.”</p>
<p>In her 2016 memoir “<a href="https://people.com/books/megyn-kelly-memoir-9-things-we-learned-about-roger-ailes-alleged-sexual-harassment/">Settle for More</a>,” Kelly describes an incident that allegedly took place in January 2006: “Roger called me up to New York and we had a shocking exchange. I was nervous about going into his office, concerned he might start in again. Sure enough he did. And then he crossed a new line – trying to grab me repeatedly and kiss me on the lips.”</p>
<p>Kelly also claims that Ailes had made sexually charged comments toward her. The Fox News anchor left the network in January 2017.</p>
<p>In July 2016, former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, who is played by Nicole Kidman in “Bombshell,” <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/06/fox-settles-with-gretchen-carlson-for-20m-and-is-expected-to-offer-apology-report.html">sued</a> Ailes for sexual harassment. Two months later, the suit was settled, and Carlson was paid $20 million.</p>
<p>Announcing the settlement of the suit, 21st Century Fox issued a statement that read in part: “We sincerely regret and apologize for the fact that Gretchen was not treated with the respect and dignity that she and all of our colleagues deserve.”</p>


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